France 2003 France Heat Wave 19th Aug. 2003 : In France a 104 degree heat wave killed approximately 5,000 people who perished from dehydration and complications of heat related illnesses. As a result of the calamity morgues were crammed full of corpses and even warehouses with refrigeration were pressed into service to cope with all the dead bodies. In the government, different parties blamed each other for not responding correctly to the crisis and France’s director general of health, Lucien Abenhaim resigned.
Temperatures in sizzling France are set to peak on Monday as the mercury reaches as high as 37°C, making it the hottest day of the recent heatwave. Authorities are asking people to take precautions against the heat but insist they are prepared.
The Provence region in the south east and south-western France will get the brunt of the scorching weather, with temperatures reaching between 35°C and 36°C on Monday.
But with Paris and Lyon expected to see highs of 35 °C it will likely fell hotter in the busy cities. Monday could be a day to avoid the Paris Metro.
Every time France is hit by a heatwave it triggers memories of the summer of 2003 when 15, 000 people, mostly elderly, died as a result of the sweltering conditions.Following that deadly summer a "plan canicule" (heatwave plan) was created to avoid a repeat of the tragedy.
Although the conditions are not forecast to be so severe this year authorities in France are on alert.
France’s Health Minister Marisol Touraine sought to reassure the French public telling weekly newspaper Journal de Dimanche that: “It’s not just because there is an effective ‘heatwave plan’ that people, especially politicians, should forget about everyday precautions we can take,” stressing that she would remain “very vigilant”.
Touraine added that France’s elderly population are not the only ones at risk urging “all those who work outside to protect themselves against periods of intense heat”.
Michèle Delaunay, the minister responsible for France’s elderly, said on Friday that the heatwave plan had “largely progressed” since the deadly heatwave of 2003.
“But everyone must feel responsible for the outcome if the heatwave lasts for many days,” she added, urging people to knock on the doors of their elderly neighbours.
Philippe Métayer, a spokesman for the country's weather service Meteo France urged the fragile, ill and elderly people, as well as young children to avoid exerting themselves during the hottest periods of the day.
People are advised to drink water regularly, even when not thirsty, in order to remain hydrated. It is also wise to avoid any physical exersion and try to cool down as often as possible by taking cold showers.
The general advice is to keep the air conditioning on during the day and get the windows open at night.
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There was no sign of anyone complaining about the heat on Saturday in Paris as the annual artificial beach party "Paris Plages" opened for business for its 12th year running.
“We’ve had a preposterous winter that lasted six months and no spring at all...We’ve been constantly cold and had to turn up our heating so we’re not going to complain after eight or ten days of heat," one Paris beachgoer told French daily Le Parisien this weekend.
However the heat has proved problematic for France’s main train operators.
On Sunday Le Parisien reported that train operators RER and SNCF were subject to speed limitations in Ile-de-France, the northern region of Picardy and the western Pays de la Loire region, which resulted in numerous delays.
The high-speed TGV rail service was also delayed, although the heatwave is not thought to be the sole cause.
Pollution and mosquito warnings
On Monday Airparif, a company that analyzes air pollution, has issued pollution warnings in Paris’s surrounding Ile-de-France region. As a result, the capital’s police force has warned children and those sensitive to the heat to avoid intense physical activity and urged motorists to reduce their speed.
On Tuesday there will be some relief with temperatures expected to fall in western France, according to Météo France, and more “reasonable” temperatures expected until the end of the week.
As well as the heat and pollution the French were also being warned about mosquitoes, whose numbers have swelled under the baking summer sun.
According to the website "Vigilance Moustiques" there are three times as many Mosquitoes in France than in June, leaving 46 departments in France on "Orange Alert".
PILIHANRAYA UMUM YANG PERTAMA SELEPAS MERDEKATarikh Peristiwa pada 19-08-1959' Pada hari ini dalam tahun 1959, Pilihanraya Umum Parlimen pertama di Persekutuan Tanah Melayu telah diadakan. Ia juga merupakan kali yang pertama di mana cara-cara memperuntukkan kerusi serta perjalanan pilihanraya ditentukan sendiri oleh penduduk Tanah Melayu tanpa paksaan penjajah Inggeris.' http://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilihan_raya_umum_Tanah_Melayu_1959 Keputusan[sunting]
TODAY IN HISTORY - Adolf Hitler Becomes President Of Germany
On this day in 1934, Adolf Hitler, already chancellor, is also elected president of Germany in an unprecedented consolidation of power in the short history of the republic.
In 1932, German President Paul von Hindenburg, old, tired, and a bit senile, had won re-election as president, but had lost a considerable portion of his right/conservative support to the Nazi Party. Those close to the president wanted a cozier relationship to Hitler and the Nazis. Hindenburg had contempt for the Nazis' lawlessness, but ultimately agreed to oust his chancellor, Heinrich Bruning, for Franz von Papen, who was willing to appease the Nazis by lifting the ban on Hitler's Brown Shirts and unilaterally canceling Germany's reparation payments, imposed by the Treaty of Versailles at the close of World War I.
But Hitler was not appeased. He wanted the chancellorship for himself. Papen's policies failed on another front: His authoritarian rule alienated his supporters, and he too was forced to resign. He then made common cause with Hitler, persuading President Hindenburg to appoint Hitler chancellor and himself vice-chancellor. He promised the president that he would restrain Hitler's worst tendencies and that a majority of the Cabinet would go to non-Nazis. As Hindenburg's current chancellor could no longer gain a majority in the Reichstag, and Hitler could bring together a larger swath of the masses and a unified right/conservative/nationalist coalition, the president gave in. In January 1933, Hitler was named chancellor of Germany.
But that was not enough for Hitler either. In February 1933, Hitler blamed a devastating Reichstag fire on the communists (its true cause remains a mystery) and convinced President Hindenburg to sign a decree suspending individual and civil liberties, a decree Hitler used to silence his political enemies with false arrests. Upon the death of Hindenburg in 1934, Hitler proceeded to purge the Brown Shirts (his storm troopers), the head of which, Ernst Roem, had began voicing opposition to the Nazi Party's terror tactics. Hitler had Roem executed without trial, which encouraged the army and other reactionary forces within the country to urge Hitler to further consolidate his power by merging the presidency and the chancellorship. This would make Hitler commander of the army as well. A plebiscite vote was held on August 19. Intimidation, and fear of the communists, brought Hitler a 90 percent majority. He was now, for all intents and purposes, dictator.
TODAY IN HISTORY - First around-the-world telegram sent, 66 years before Voyager II launch
On this day in 1911, a dispatcher in the New York Times office sends the first telegram around the world via commercial service. Exactly 66 years later, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) sends a different kind of message--a phonograph record containing information about Earth for extraterrestrial beings--shooting into space aboard the unmanned spacecraft Voyager II.
The Times decided to send its 1911 telegram in order to determine how fast a commercial message could be sent around the world by telegraph cable. The message, reading simply "This message sent around the world," left the dispatch room on the 17th floor of the Times building in New York at 7 p.m. on August 20. After it traveled more than 28,000 miles, being relayed by 16 different operators, through San Francisco, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Saigon, Singapore, Bombay, Malta, Lisbon and the Azores--among other locations--the reply was received by the same operator 16.5 minutes later. It was the fastest time achieved by a commercial cablegram since the opening of the Pacific cable in 1900 by the Commercial Cable Company.
On August 20, 1977, a NASA rocket launched Voyager II, an unmanned 1,820-pound spacecraft, from Cape Canaveral, Florida. It was the first of two such crafts to be launched that year on a "Grand Tour" of the outer planets, organized to coincide with a rare alignment of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Aboard Voyager II was a 12-inch copper phonograph record called "Sounds of Earth." Intended as a kind of introductory time capsule, the record included greetings in 60 languages and scientific information about Earth and the human race, along with classical, jazz and rock 'n' roll music, nature sounds like thunder and surf, and recorded messages from President Jimmy Carter and other world leaders.
The brainchild of astronomer Carl Sagan, the record was sent with Voyager II and its twin craft, Voyager I--launched just two weeks later--in the faint hope that it might one day be discovered by extraterrestrial creatures. The record was sealed in an aluminum jacket that would keep it intact for 1 billion years, along with instructions on how to play the record, with a cartridge and needle provided.
More importantly, the two Voyager crafts were designed to explore the outer solar system and send information and photographs of the distant planets to Earth. Over the next 12 years, the mission proved a smashing success. After both crafts flew by Jupiter and Saturn, Voyager I went flying off towards the solar system's edge while Voyager II visited Uranus, Neptune and finally Pluto in 1990 before sailing off to join its twin in the outer solar system.
Thanks to the Voyager program, NASA scientists gained a wealth of information about the outer planets, including close-up photographs of Saturn's seven rings; evidence of active geysers and volcanoes exploding on some of the four planets' 22 moons; winds of more than 1,500 mph on Neptune; and measurements of the magnetic fields on Uranus and Neptune. The two crafts are expected to continue sending data until 2020, or until their plutonium-based power sources run out. After that, they will continue to sail on through the galaxy for millions of years to come, barring some unexpected collision.
HARI INI DALAM SEJARAH - Yang di-Pertuan Agong Isytihar Bendera Dan Lagu Wilayah Persekutuan
Pada hari ini dalam tahun 2006, DYMM Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin Ibni Almarhum Tuanku Syed Putra Jamalullail telah berkenan mengisytiharkan bendera dan lagu baru Wilayah Persekutuan di Dataran Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur. Turut hadir di majlis tersebut ialah Raja Permaisuri Agong, Tuanku Fauziah binti Almarhum Tengku Abdul Rashid, Timbalan Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak dan Menteri Wilayah Persekutuan, Datuk Zulhasnan Rafique. Pengisytiharan bendera dan lagu baru disaksikan oleh kira-kira 10,000 hadirin termasuk warga dari Wilayah Persekutuan Labuan, Putrajaya dan Kuala Lumpur. Pelancaran tersebut adalah susulan daripada keputusan Mesyuarat Jemaah Menteri pada 3 Mei 2006 yang telah diperkenankan oleh Yang di-Pertuan Agong pada 12 Mei 2006 untuk menggunakan satu bendera dan lagu bagi majlis rasmi seperti mesyuarat dan temasya sukan untuk mewakili ketiga-tiga Wilayah persekutuan, iaitu Kuala Lumpur, Labuan dan Putrajaya. Bendera baru Wilayah Persektuan telah dinaikkan oleh enam bentara Tentera Laut Diraja Malaysia dengan diiringi nyanyian lagu “Maju dan Sejahtera” oleh kumpulan koir kebangsaan Malaysia. Pengisytiharan bendera dan lagu baru pada hari ini merupakan lambang penyatuan aspirasi ketiga-tiga buah wilayah untuk menjadi Wilayah Persekutuan terus maju dan sejahtera.
HARI INI DALAM SEJARAH - Pengumuman Pelancaran Satelit Ketiga
Pada hari ini dalam tahun 2001, YAB Perdana Menteri, Dato’ Seri Dr Mahathir bin Mohamad, mengumumkan bahawa Malaysia akan melancarkan satelit ketiga, Africa-MeaSat (A-M Sat). Beliau mengumumkan demikian pada sesi terakhir Dialog Antarabangsa Selatan Afrika-Global 2001 (SAID-Global 2001) di Kampala. Dalam ucapan, YAB Perdana Menteri menyatakan bahawa satelit tersebut bernilai AS$200 juta (RM760 juta) dan jangka hayat operasinya adalah dalam tempoh 15 tahun dan kawasan liputan A-M Sat ialah di benua Afrika dan Eropah manakala keutamaan penggunaannya diberi kepada stesen kalangan negara anggota SAID. Satelit itu akan menggunakan transponder 24 C-band dan 12 Ku-band dan ia akan dilancarkan dalam orbit Malaysia pada kedudukan 5.7 darjah Timur. Sehubungan itu, Dr Mahathir mempelawa negara Afrika untuk turut serta atau berkongsi dalam projek satelit berkenaan dan pelancaran satelit itu kelak akan memberi manfaat kepada Malaysia dan negara-negara di Asia Tenggara dalam rangkaian hubungan komunikasi dengan negara Afrika.
The story began on Monday August 21, 1911. Like nearly all museums around the world, the Louvre is closed on Mondays. Only a few employees were carrying out renovation works in the museum’s halls. The painter Vincenzo Perugia was among them. When unobserved for a moment, he slipped over to Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece the Mona Lisa.
Created in 1503, the painting was known only to a few art buffs in 1911 and lay almost hidden in an obscure corner. Perugia took the canvas out of the frame and left the Louvre unnoticed. The theft was not made public until the following day.
More than two years passed. Then a tip from an antique dealer led the Florence police to the northern Italian province of Como. There the decorator Perugia had the painting up for sale. He admitted his guilt upon arrest and offered an unusual motive for his crime - patriotism.
He wanted to bring one the greatest Italian art treasures back to its country of origin and thus get revenge for an art theft supposedly committed by the French emperor Napoleon in the last century. The decorator and painter was wrong on this point, however, as Leonardo himself had sold the portrait to the French king Francis I in 1516 for 4,000 gold thalers, a top price even back then.
After the painting’s reappearance in 1913, experts from the Louvre travelled to the Uffizi museum in Florence to verify its authenticity. They declared the portrait to be the true original. From then on, the masterpiece was well guarded and the Mona Lisa now offers her mysterious smile to the public through bulletproof glass.
The Mona Lisa became world famous as a result of the "kidnapping", which nearly triggered a European cultural crisis. Innumerable experts now enter into heated debate about every detail of the painting. They discovered the location where Leonardo might have painted the woman and they searched for her identity. Could she be Isabella Gualanda, a courtesan in the Vatican or is she really the wife of the Florentine merchant Francesco del Giocondo?
Others claim that the painting is in fact a self-portrait of da Vinci. In 1914, a French scholar stated that, in his opinion, the Mona Lisa was not a historic person from the Florence of da Vinici’s day, but an artistic ideal of beauty at that time requiring no personal identification. And the Mona Lisa has indeed maintained this shrouded identity up to this day.
The experts saved their most heated debate, however, for Mona Lisa’s smile. Two French doctors feel it was the product of illness, claiming the woman was likely to have suffered from muscular atrophy. Others interpret the smile as a form of facial paralysis, another train of thought is that schizophrenia is the true reason. The Canadian artist Suzanne Giroux sees the Mona Lisa’s curved mouth as the naked back of a handsome young man when the painting is turned at a 90-degree angle. Even Sigmund Freud got involved in the discussion, interpreting the smile as a product of Leonardo’s drives. In reality, claimed Freud, the smile was that of the artist’s mother, who died at an early age.
The idea that Leonardo perhaps simply painted a lady with a friendly smile is apparently too trivial for the official and self-proclaimed experts.
Whatever the interpretation, the lady was in for even more controversy. Marcel Duchamps and Salvadore Dalí added their own touches to the Mona Lisa – one chose a Stalin-style mustache, the other a spiked Prussian helmet. Of course they added their accessories only to duplicates, not to the original.
The days when the Mona Lisa adorned the walls of Napoleon’s bedroom are long gone. She has now become public cultural property. Degraded to an icon, she has even been spotted as a silent observer in the corner of bar toilets.
On this day in 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression pact, stunning the world, given their diametrically opposed ideologies. But the dictators were, despite appearances, both playing to their own political needs.
After Nazi Germany's invasion of Czechoslovakia, Britain had to decide to what extent it would intervene should Hitler continue German expansion. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, at first indifferent to Hitler's capture of the Sudetenland, the German-speaking area of Czechoslovakia, suddenly snapped to life when Poland became threatened. He made it plain that Britain would be obliged to come to the aid of Poland in the event of German invasion. But he wanted, and needed, an ally. The only power large enough to stop Hitler, and with a vested interest in doing so, was the Soviet Union. But Stalin was cool to Britain after its effort to create a political alliance with Britain and France against Germany had been rebuffed a year earlier. Plus, Poland's leaders were less than thrilled with the prospect of Russia becoming its guardian; to them, it was simply occupation by another monstrous regime.
Hitler believed that Britain would never take him on alone, so he decided to swallow his fear and loathing of communism and cozy up to the Soviet dictator, thereby pulling the rug out from the British initiative. Both sides were extremely suspicious of the other, trying to discern ulterior motives. But Hitler was in a hurry; he knew if he was to invade Poland it had to be done quickly, before the West could create a unified front. Agreeing basically to carve up parts of Eastern Europe—and leave each other alone in the process—Hitler's foreign minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop, flew to Moscow and signed the non-aggression pact with his Soviet counterpart, V.M. Molotov (which is why the pact is often referred to as the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact). Supporters of bolshevism around the world had their heretofore romantic view of "international socialism" ruined; they were outraged that Stalin would enter into any kind of league with the fascist dictator.
But once Poland was German-occupied territory, the alliance would not last for long.
HARI INI DALAM SEJARAH - Pembentukan Kabinet Yang Pertama Selepas Merdeka
Pada hari ini dalam tahun 1959, YTM Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al Haj pemimpin Kebangsaan Parti Perikatan iaitu Parti UMNO, MCA, MIC, telah membentuk kabinetnya yang pertama selepas Persekutuan Tanah Melayu merdeka. TYM Tunku telah mengangkat sumpah pada 22-08-1959 mengambil alih semula jawatan Perdana Menteri daripada Dato’ Abdul Razak bin Hussein yang telah menyandang jawatan itu semasa Tunku bercuti selama 3 bulan untuk menjalankan kempen pilihanraya.
Pembentukan kabinet Pertama ini adalah hasil kemenangan Parti Perikatan dalam pilihanraya 19 Ogos, 1959. Semua menteri dalam kabinet Persekutuan yang dibentuk pada tahun 1959 telah dilantik semula kecuali kolonel Sir H.S. Lee Menteri Kewangan kerana tidak bertanding sebagai calon dalam pilihanraya dan Encik Mohd Khir Johari yang bertanding di kawasan Kedah Tengah dimana kawasan ini telah ditangguhkan pilihanrayanya kepada 30 September, 1959. Seramai 11 orang ahli kabinet telah dilantik. Mereka ialah :-
- YTM Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al- Haj, Perdana Menteri yang juga bertanggungjawab untuk kemajuan kampung-kampung yang pertama selepas Persekutuan mencapai kemerdekaan.
- YTM Tunku Abdul Rahman Putera Al Haj selaku Ketua Kabinet dan Perdana Menteri berikrar bahawa pimpinannya akan berusaha untuk :-
1) Memimpin rakyat Persekutuan Tanah Melayu ke arah membina satu bangsa yang tulen.
2) Menghimpun dan menggembelingkan segala usaha dan tenaga bagi memajukan negara ini dan menambahkan kemakmuran kawasan- kawasan kampung serta menghapuskan segala macam bentuk percubaan Parti Komunis Malaya yang hendak menggulingkan kerajaan Persekutuan Tanah Melayu, kerajaan pilihan rakyat.
Menjalankan ikhtiar supaya negeri-negeri di Asia Tenggara dapat bekerjasama dengan rapat dan dapat mencapai faedah bersama terutama dalam bidang ekonomi, sosial dan sains.
Kemunculan PAS dalam sejarah politik tanah air telah bermula semenjak 23 Ogos 1951 apabila para ulamak yang bersidang di Kuala Lumpur bersetuju menubuhkan sebuah persatuan yang dinamakan Persatuan Ulamak Se-Malaya. Nama persatuan ini kemudiannya diubah menjadi Persatuan Islam Se-Malaya (PAS) pada 24 November 1951, dalam satu persidangan ulamak Malaya di Bagan Tuan Kecil (Butterworth), Seberang Prai. Itulah sekelumit permulaan sejarah PAS yang diasaskan oleh para ulamak yang kemudiannya berkembang menjadi sebuah pertubuhan politico-dakwah yang penting di negara ini. Penglibatan dan sumbangan PAS dalam politik negara bermula sebaik sahaja ia ditubuhkan walaupun ramai pengkaji mengatakan PAS hanya menyertai politik menjelang pilihan raya 1955.
24 AUGUST 2007 - Fiery balloon crash kills 2 in B.C.
A hot-air balloon burst into flames and plummeted into a trailer park in suburban Vancouver, killing two people, as horrified relatives of the dead watched on the ground.
SURREY, B.C.–A hot-air balloon burst into flames and plummeted into a trailer park in suburban Vancouver, killing two people, as horrified relatives of the dead watched on the ground.
"There were family members on the ground when this tragic event took place" Friday evening, said Sgt. Roger Morrow of Surrey RCMP. The dead are not being named immediately to give relatives a chance to recover from the shock.
Onlookers watched as the balloon caught fire and broke free of its tether, shooting up in the air before everyone could escape, then plunging directly onto a trailer.
"I saw the balloon coming down on the front of the trailer and when it hit, it exploded," said Karen Ashby.
"There were flames and fire, people running. Everybody was in a panic. It was a shock. It was like a war zone here."
Eleven people were taken to hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries in the second serious balloon accident this month in Western Canada.
Three trailers were destroyed, but luckily about seven people in them got out safely, said Ralph Zandergen, owner of Hazelmere Trailer Park.
The balloon caught fire as it prepared to launch, said Bill Yearwood, an investigator with the Transportation Safety Board of Canada.
"The crew loaded 12 passengers and was preparing to launch when a fire erupted. The pilot asked the passengers to get out of the basket," he said. "The balloon was tethered at the time, but then broke and came loose."
After most of the passengers escaped, the balloon exploded in a fireball and shot up into the air, then plunged to the ground. The pilot is in stable condition.
Park resident Mike Braden, 48, said he looked out his window to see the balloon and its basket in flames.
"The basket broke and it dropped on the trailer and beside the truck," he said. "It was totally engulfed in flames. (After it crashed), tires were blowing and a few propane tanks went off and it was just an inferno."
Ashby said she believes a malfunction was responsible, not the pilot, who had previously taken up her husband and children.
"You couldn't ask for a better person that flies that balloon."
The Transportation Safety Board is investigating the accident.
Another balloon crashed in a field near Winnipeg on Aug. 11, sending three people to hospital with injuries including severe burns.
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TODAY IN HISTORY - Man Gets World's First Battery-operated Heart
A man has been given the world's first battery-operated heart in a pioneering operation in Britain.The patient, an unnamed 62-year-old from the south of England, is now in a stable condition at the world-famous Papworth Hospital in Cambridgeshire.
He had only months to live when doctors offered him the chance of being a guinea-pig for the new titanium and plastic device, manufactured in America.Known as the Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) it is not a replacement for the human heart.
It is essentially an electrical pump which does most of the work of the pumping chamber of the heart, the left ventricle.
During the four-hour operation the LVAD was placed in the wall of the man's abdomen and connected to his heart.The pump is powered by a battery pack which the patient will wear on his belt.
Trial
The operation was performed by an 11-man team led by top heart surgeons Sir Terence English and John Wallwork. Sir Terence carried out Britain's first successful heart transplant on entertainer Keith Castle in 1979.The pioneering procedure could provide a vital alternative to heart transplants.The LVAD, which costs ￡40,000, has been used successfully in more than 200 patients to keep them alive until a donated heart became available.However, a trial being carried out a Papworth will allow surgeons to see whether the device has a role in the long-term therapy of patients with cardiac failure.Patients being considered suitable to take part in the trial are being randomly allocated to two groups.One will have the device implanted and the remaining control group will continue with their usual drug treatment.
HARI INI DALAM SEJARAH - Pertukaran Nama ITM Kepada UiTM
Pada hari ini dalam tahun 1999, YAB Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamad mengumumkan pertukaran nama Institut Teknologi Mara atau ITM kepada Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) ketika beliau menghadiri ‘Perhimpunan Perdana Siswazah ITM bersama Perdana Menteri’ di Stadium Malawati, Shah Alam. Sejarah perkembangan ITM bermula dalam tahun 1956 apabila Dewan Latihan RIDA (Rural Industrial Development Authority) ditubuhkan. Pada tahun 1965, ekoran dari resolusi Kongres Ekonomi Bumiputera, RIDA disusun semula dan dinamakan Majlis Amanah Rakyat (MARA) dan Dewan Latihan RIDA telah ditukar kepada nama Maktab MARA. Pada 14 Oktober 1967 Maktab MARA ditukar nama kepada Institut Teknologi MARA (ITM). Dalam bulan Jun 1976, Akta ITM telah diluluskan oleh Parlimen dan ITM ditadbir oleh Kementerian Pendidikan. Pada 25 Februari 2000 Akta ITM (pindaan 2000) telah diluluskan oleh Dewan Rakyat dan diikuti oleh Dewan Negara pada 8 Mei 2000 dengan nama ‘UiTM’. Sesungguhnya, UiTM telah berjaya melahirkan ramai graduan-graduan bumiputra yang berkualiti untuk memenuhi keperluan tenaga kerja serta berjaya menyumbang kepada kesejahteraan dan pembangunan negara.
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