Members of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayan_Communist_Party" id="mw9g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Malayan Communist Party">Malayan Communist Party</a> kill three British plantation managers in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sungai_Siput" id="mw9w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Sungai Siput">Sungai Siput</a>; in response, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Malaya" id="mw-A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="British Malaya">British Malaya</a> declares <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayan_Emergency" id="mw-Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Malayan Emergency">a state of emergency</a>.