1965(1965)
Events
January-February
March
April-June
July-August
September-October
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
unknown dates
Year in topic
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
)
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