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1965

(1965)

Years: 1962 1963 1964 - 1965 - 1966 1967 1968
Decades : 1930s 1940s 1950s - 1960s - 1970s 1980s 1990s
Centuries : 19th century - 20th century - 21st century 1965 in art 1965 in aviation 1965 in film 1965 in literature 1965 in music 1965 in radio 1965 in science 1965 in sports 1965 in television 1965 in Canada

Contents

1 Events

1.1 January-February
1.2 March
1.3 April-June
1.4 July-August
1.5 September-October
1.6 November
1.7 December
1.8 unknown dates

2 Year in topic

3 Births

3.1 January-March
3.2 April-July
3.3 August-December

4 Deaths

4.1 January-February
4.2 March-December

5 Nobel Prizes

6 Books

Events

January-February

January 4 - United States President Lyndon Johnson proclaims his " Great Society " during his State of the Union address .
January 26 - Hindi becomes theofficial language of India .
February 9 - VietnamWar : The first United States combat troops are sent to South Vietnam
February 15 - A new red and white maple leaf design is adopted as the flag of Canada replacing the old Red Ensign standard.
February 18 - TheGambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom
February 20 - Ranger 8 crashes into the Moon after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sitesfor the Apollo program astronauts .
February 21 - Malcolm X is assassinated at his mosque in New York City by Black Muslims .

March

March 7 - Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama
March 8 - Vietnam War : 3,500 United States Marines arrive in South Vietnam becoming the first American combat troops in Vietnam .
March 18 - cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov becomes the first person to walk in space from spacecraft Voskhod 2
March 21 - Rangerprogram : NASA launches Ranger 9 which isthe last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes .
March 23 - NASA launches Gemini 3 which is the UnitedStates ' first two-person space flight took (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young ).
March 25 - Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King, Jr. beginmarch from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery .

April-June

April 11 - The Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak : Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states killing256.
April 24 - Fighting breaks out in the Dominican Republic as officers loyal to deposed President Juan Bosch lead a mutiny against the right wing junta running the country. US troops are later sent by President Lyndon B. Johnson for the stated purpose of protecting UScitizens and preventing an alleged Communist takeover of the country.
April 28 - Vietnam War : Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies announces that the country will substantially increase its number of troops in South Vietnam , supposedly at the request of the Saigon government,although it is later revealed that Menzies had asked the leadership in Saigon to send the request at the behest of theAmericans.
June 2 - Vietnam War : The firstcontingent of Australian combat troops arrives in South Vietnam .
June 10 - Vietnam War: Battle of Dong Xoai begins- About 1,500 Vietcong mount a mortar attack on Dong Xoai and then overrun its militaryheadquarters and adjoining militia compound.
June 22 - Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic ofKorea .

July-August

July 14 - Mariner 4 flyby of Mars .
July 24 - Vietnam War : Four F-4C Phantoms escorting a bombing raid at Kang Chi are the targets of antiaircraft missiles in the first such attack against Americanplanes in the war. One is shot down and the other three sustain damage.
July 28 - Vietnam War: US President Lyndon B. Johnson announces his order to increase the number of United States troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to125,000.
July 29 - Vietnam War: The first 4,000 101st Airborne Division paratroopers arrive in Vietnam , landing at Cam Ranh Bay .
July 30 - War onPoverty : US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social SecurityAct of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid .
August 6 - US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into UnitedStates law .
August 9 - Singapore proclaimsits independence from the Malaysian Federation.
August 11 - Watts Riots begin in Los Angeles, California
August 18 - Vietnam War : Operation Starlite begins as 5,500 United States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in Quang Ngai Province , in the first major American ground battle of the war. The Marines were tipped-offby a Viet Cong deserter who said that there was an attack planned against the US base at Chu Lai .

September-October

September 7 - VietnamWar : In a follow-up to August's Operation Starlight , United StatesMarines and South Vietnamese forces initiate Operation Pirahna on the Batangan Peninsula ,23 miles south of the Chu Lai Marinebase.
September 14 - Opening of fourth and final period of Second Vatican Council
September 20 - End of term for Tuanku Syed Putra ibni Almarhum Syed Hassan Jamalullail as the 3rd Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia .
September 21 - Ismail Nasiruddin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Zainal AbidinIII , Sultan of Terengganu becomesthe 4th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia .
October 15 - VietnamWar : The anti-war student-run National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam stagesthe first public burning of a draft card in the United States .
October 28 - In St. Louis, Missouri , the 630-foot-tall parabolic steel Gateway Arch is completed.
October 30 - VietnamWar : Just miles from Da Nang , United States Marines repel an intense attack by wave after wave of Viet Cong forces, killing 56 guerrillas. Among the dead, a sketch of Marine positions was found on the body of a13-year-old Vietnamese boy who sold drinks to the Marines the day before.

November

November 6 - Freedom Flights begin: Cuba and the United States formally agree to start an airlift for Cubans who want to go to theUnited States (by 1971 250,000 Cubans take advantage of this program).
November 8 - The British Indian Ocean Territory is created, consisting of Chagos Archipelago , Aldabra , Farquhar and Des Roches islands (on June 23 , 1976 Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches werereturned to Seychelles ).
November 9 - Northeast Blackout of 1965 : Several U.S.states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 1/2 hours.
November 9 - Vietnam War : In New York City , 22-year old Catholic Worker member Roger AllenLaPorte sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building in protest of the war in Vietnam (this was the second such incident in aweek; on November 2 32-year-old Quaker member Norman Morrison did the same thing infront of The Pentagon ).
November 11 - Rhodesia (nowcalled Zimbabwe ) was declared independent by the white minority regime of Ian Smith .
November 14 - Vietnam War: Battle of the IaDrang begins - In the Ia Drang Valley of the Central Highlands in Vietnam , the first major engagement of the war between regular American and NorthVietnamese forces begins.
November 16 - Venera program : The Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe from Baikonur , Kazakhstan toward Venus (on March 1 , 1966 it became the firstspacecraft to reach the surface of another planet ).
November 26 - At the Hammaguira launch facility in the Sahara Desert , France launches a Diamant-A rocket with its first satellite , Asterix-1 on board, becoming the third country to enter space .
November 27 - VietnamWar : The Pentagon tells US President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned major sweep operations needed to neutralize Viet Cong forces during the next year were to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam has to beincreased from 120,000 to 400,000.
November 28 - Vietnam War: In response to US President Lyndon B. Johnson 's call for "more flags" in Vietnam , Philippines President Elect Ferdinand Marcos announces he will send troops to help fight in South Vietnam .

December

December 1 - The Border Security Force is established in India as a specialforce to guard the borders.
December 8 - Closing of Second Vatican Council
December 30 - Ferdinand Marcos becomes President of the Philippines

unknown dates

The Council for NationalAcademic Awards is established in the UK
TAT-4 cable goes into operation.
Mont Blanc tunnel between France and Italy completed.
Medicaid is founded in the United States
Desteldonk becomes a part of Ghent ( East Flanders , Flanders , Belgium )

Year in topic

1965 in film
- The Sound of Music
- Doctor Zhivago
- The Greatest Story Ever Told starring Max vonSydow , Charlton Heston , Martin Landau , John Wayne , AngelaLansbury , Roddy McDowall , Shelley Winters , Pat Boone and others
- Help! , starring TheBeatles
1965 in literature
1965 in music
- February 11 - Beatle Ringo Starr marries Maureen Cox.
- August - Paul Simon releases UK-only LP The Paul Simon Song Book.
- 1965 is the title of an Afghan Whigs album released in 1998 .
1965 in sports
1965 in television
- March 24 - Live TV pictures from U.S. unmanned moon probe "Ranger 9"transmitted prior to impact.
- Sony introduces the Betamax , a home videotape recorder
- CBS switches to the color standard.

Births

January-March

January 15 - Adam Jones ,musician of Tool
January 20 - Sophie Helen Rhys-Jones , future Countess of Wessex
January 22 - DJ JazzyJeff , rapper, actor
January 27 - AlanCumming , actor
January 29 - DominikHasek , ice hockey player
February 1 - BrandonLee , actor, son of Bruce Lee (d. 1993 )
February 1 - Sherilyn Fenn ,actress
February 1 - Princess Stephanie ofMonaco
February 11 - Angie Ridgeway , golfer
February 11 - Stephen Gregory , actor
February 18 - Dr. Dre , rap music performer, music producer
February 23 - MichaelDell , founder of Dell Inc.
March 1 - StewartElliott , Canadian jockey
March 4 - Gary Helms , Kick-boxer USA
March 9 - BenitoSantiago , baseball player
March 14 - Kevin Brown , baseball player
March 25 - Sarah Jessica Parker , actress

April-July

April 4 - RobertDowney Jr. , actor
April 7 - Bill Bellamy ,actor, comedian ( Fled , Any Given Sunday , Fastlane )
April 15 - Linda Perry ,musician
April 16 - MartinLawrence , actor, comedian, producer
April 21 - Ed Belfour , NHL goalie
April 14 - Khalid Shaikh Mohammed , suspected military head of Osama bin Laden 's al-Qaeda (his birth date is also reportedto be March 1 , 1964 )
May 9 - Steve Yzerman , icehockey player
May 14 - Eoin Colfer ,writer
May 15 - Lizi Rodriguez , psychologist and media psychotherapist
May 16 - KristNovoselic , Nirvana bassist
May 17 - Trent Reznor ,musician ( Nine Inch Nails )
May 28 - Chris Ballew ,musician
May 31 - Brooke Shields ,actress
June 1 - Nigel Short , chessplayer
June 4 - Mick Doohan ,Australian motorcycle racer
June 7 - Mick Foley , professional wrestler and author
June 10 - ElizabethHurley , actress
July 19 - Stuart Scott ,sports reporter
July 28 - Lori Loughlin ,actress
July 31 - Joanne Kathleen Rowling , author of HarryPotter

August-December

August 10 - John Starks , basketball player
August 14 - Emmanuelle Béart , Cesar Award winning actress
August 24 - ReggieMiller , basketball star
August 28 - ShaniaTwain , singer/songwriter
September 11 - Moby ,musician
September 25 - Scottie Pippen , NBA star
October 5 - MarioLemieux , hockey star
October 5 - Patrick Roy , hockey star
November 2 - ShahRukh Khan , actor
November 7 - SigrunWodars , East German athlete
November 21 - Alexander Siddig , actor ( Star Trek: Deep Space Nine )
November 21 - Björk , Icelandic singer / songwriter / musician
November 30 - BenStiller , actor ( There's SomethingAbout Mary , Meet the Parents , Zoolander )
December 3 - Steve Harris , actor ( The Practice , Minority Report )
December 3 - Katarina Witt , figure skater
December 14 - CraigBiggio , baseball player
December 27 - SalmanKhan , actor, India

Deaths

January-February

January 4 - T. S. Eliot ,American/British poet
January 12 - Lorraine Hansberry , writer
January 14 - Jeanette MacDonald , actress, singer
January 20 - Alan Freed , disk jockey
January 24 - Winston Churchill , British politician
January 28 - MaximeWeygand , soldier
February 13 - Gloria Morgan-Vanderbilt , socialite
February 15 - NatKing Cole , singer, musician
February 21 - Malcolm X , Black Muslim Movement activist
February 22 - Felix Frankfurter , justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
February 23 - StanLaurel , British actor
February 26 - George Adamski , UFO traveler

March-December

March 3 - King Farouk ofEgypt , former monarch
March 6 - MargaretDumont , actress
March 13 - Corrado Gini ,statistician
March 13 - Fan S. Noli , Albanian bishop, poet and political figure (b. 1882 )
March 17 - AmosAlonzo Stagg , baseball , basketball and American football coach andplayer
March 18 - King Farouk I of Egypt
March 28 - Her Royal Highness Princess Mary, The Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood
May 25 - SonnyBoy Williamson
June 28 - Red Nichols , jazz musician (b. 1905 )
July 1 - Wally Hammond ,cricketer
July 1 - Harald Zwart , Norwegian film director
July 7 - Moshe Sharett ,second Prime Minister of Israel
August 27 - LeCorbusier , Swiss architect
August 28 - GiulioRacah , Israeli physicist (b. 1909 )
September 4 - Albert Schweitzer , German physician (b. 1875 )
September 15 - Steve Brown , jazz musician (b. 1890 )
November 6 - EdgarVarèse composer (b. 1883 )
November 6 - Clarence Williams , jazz musician (b. 1893 )

Nobel Prizes

Books

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