1965
1965 was a common year
starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar).
Events
January-February
March
April-June
July-August
- July 14 - Mariner 4 flyby of
Mars
- July 16 - The Mont
Blanc Tunnel is used for the first time
- 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 American
planes in the war. One is shot down and the other three sustain damage
- July 27 - Edward Heath
becomes Leader of the British Conservative
Party
- 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 to
125,000
- July 29 - Vietnam War: The first 4,000 101st Airborne Division paratroopers arrive in Vietnam, landing at Cam Ranh Bay
- July 30 - War on
Poverty: US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing
Medicare and Medicaid
- August 1 - TV ban on cigarette
advertising in Britain
- August 6 - US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into United
States law
- August 9 - Singapore proclaims
its independence from Malaysia
- August 9 - An explosion at a missile plant in Arkansas kills 53
- August 9 – Indonesian
president Sukarno collapses in public
- 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-off
by a Viet Cong deserter who said that there was an attack planned against the US base at Chu Lai
- August 19 - At the Auschwitz
trial in Frankfurt, 66 ex-SS personnel receive
life sentences, 15 others smaller ones
September-October
- September 2 - Pakistani
troops enter the Indian sector of Kashmir
- September 6 - Indian troops march
on Lahore
- September 7 - China announces that it will reinforce its troops in the Indian border
- September 7 - Vietnam
War: In a follow-up to August's Operation Starlight, United States
Marines and South Vietnamese forces initiate Operation Pirahna on the
Batangan Peninsula,
23 miles south of the Chu Lai Marine
base
- September 8 - India opens two
additional fronts against Pakistan
- September 9 - UN secretary general U Thant negotiates with Pakistani president Ayub Khan
- September 9 - U Thant
recommends China for UN membership
- September 13 - Congress of Arab countries begins in Casablanca - Habib Bourgiba boycotts the meeting
- September 14 - Opening of fourth and final period of Second Vatican Council
- September 16 - China protests against Indian provocations in its border
region
- September 16 - In Iraq, Prime
Minister Razzak's attempted coup fails
- September 17 - Stefan Stafanopoulos
forms a new government in Greece and ends a two-year old political crisis
- September 18 - China claims that US troops have used poison gas in South Vietnam
- September 18 - In Denmark,
Palle Sörensen shoots four
policemen in pursuit - apprehended the same day
- September 19 - Soviet prime minister Alexei Kosygin invites the leaders of India and Pakistan to meet in Soviet Union to negotiate
- 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 - Commander of US troops in Vietnam, general William Westmoreland, pleads Washington to cancel the ban to use
mustard gas
- September 21 - Ismail Nasiruddin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Zainal Abidin
III, Sultan of Terengganu becomes
the 4th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
- September 22 - Peking Radio announces that Indian troops
have dismantled their equipment on the Chinese side of the border
- September 24 - Fighting between Indian and Pakistani troops erupts again
- September 24 - British governor of Aden cancels the Aden constitution and takes direct control of the protectorate because of the bad security
situation
- September 27 - Largest tanker ship at the time, Tokyo Maru, launched in Yokohama
- September 28 - Fidel
Castro announces that everybody who wants can immigrate to USA
- September 28 - Taal volcano in Luzon, Philippines, erupts - hundreds dead
- September 30 – Attempted communist coup in Indonesia. Indonesian army crushes it with the lead of general Suharto
- October 3 - Fidel
Castro announces that Che Guevara has resigned and left the country
- October 4 - Prime minister Ian
Smith of Rhodesia and Arthur Bottomley of British
Commonwealth begin negotiations in London - they end on October 8 without
results
- October 5 - Pakistan sever
diplomatic relations with Malaysia because of the disagreement in UN
- October 8 - Indonesian army arrests and executes communists
- October 8 - Olympic Committee admits East
Germany as a member
- October 8 - The Post Office Tower opens in London
- October 9 - Yale
University presents the "Vinland
Map"
- October 9 - Brigade of South
Korean soldiers arrive in South Vietnam
- October 10 - First group of Cuban
refugees travels to USA
- October 12 - Per Borten
forms a government in Norway
- October 12 - UN general council recommends that United Kingdom try everything to stop a rebellion in Rhodesia
- October 13 - President of Congo, Joseph Kasavubu, fires Prime Minister Moise Tsombe and forms a provisional government with Evariste Kimba in a lead
- October 15 - Vietnam
War: The anti-war student-run National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam stages
the first public burning of a draft card in the United States
- October 16 - Suharto takes
power in Indonesia
- October 18 - Indonesian government declares communist party illegal
- October 20 - Ludwig
Erhard elected as a chancellor in West Germany
- October 21 - Ikeja-Seki comet
- October 21 - OAU meeting begins in Accra
- October 22 - French authors André Figueras and Jacques Laurent are fined for their
comments against Charles De Gaulle
- October 22 - African countries demand that United Kingdom to use force to prevent Rhodesia to
declare unilateral independence
- October 24 - British Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Arthur Bottomley travel to
Rhodesia for negotiations
- October 25 - Soviet Union declares its support of African countries in case
Rhodesia unilaterally declares independence
- October 26 - Anti-government demonstrations in the Dominican Republic
- October 27 - Brazilian president Branco removes power of parliament,
legal courts and opposition parties
- October 28 - French foreign minister Couve de Murville travels to
Moscow
- October 28 - Pope Paul
VI announces that ecumenical council has decided that Jews
are not collectively responsible for the killing of Christ
- October 28 - In St. Louis, Missouri, the 630-foot-tall parabolic steel Gateway Arch is completed
- October 29 - Kidnapping of Mehdi Ben Barka
- October 30 - Vietnam
War: 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 a
13-year-old Vietnamese boy who sold drinks to the Marines the day before.
- October 31 - Indonesian army announces that it is fighting with communist
guerillas in Java
November
- November 2 - Republican John V. Lindsay elected mayor of New York City
- November 3 - Charles De Gaulle announces that he will stand in next presidential election
- November 4 - US racer Craig Freedlove makes a female
speed record
- November 5 - Martial
law announced in Rhodesia. UN general council accept British intent to use
force against Rhodesia in necessary with votes 82-9
- November 6 - Freedom Flights begin: Cuba and the United States formally agree to start an airlift for Cubans who want to go to the
United 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 were
returned 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 Allen LaPorte 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 a week; on November
2 32-year-old Quaker member Norman Morrison did the same thing in front of The
Pentagon)
- November 11 - Rhodesia (now
called Zimbabwe) is declared independent by the white minority regime of Ian Smith
- November 12 - UN Security Council resolution (voted 10-0) recommends that
other countries would not recognize independent Rhodesia
- November 14 - Vietnam War: Battle of the Ia Drang begins - In the Ia
Drang Valley of the Central Highlands in Vietnam, the first major engagement of
the war between regular American and North Vietnamese 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 first
spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet)
- November 16 - Disney launches Epcot Center
- November 20 - UN Security Council recommends that all states stop trading
with Rhodesia
- November 23 - Soviet general Mikhail Kazakov becomes commander
of Warsaw Pact
- November 24 - Queen Elizabeth of Belgium
dies
- November 25 - Joseph
Mobutu takes over in Congo through a military coup
- 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 - Vietnam
War: 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 be
increased 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.
- November 29 - Canadian satellite Alouette 2 is launched.
December
Unknown dates
Year in topic
Births
January-March
- January 9 - Joely
Richardson, actress
- January 15 - Adam Jones,
musician of Tool
- January 20 - Sophie Helen Rhys-Jones, future Countess of Wessex
- January 22 - DJ Jazzy
Jeff, rapper, actor
- January 27 - Alan
Cumming, actor
- January 29 - Dominik
Hasek, ice hockey player
- February 1 - Brandon
Lee, actor, son of Bruce Lee (d. 1993)
- February 1 - Sherilyn Fenn, actress
- February 1 - Princess Stephanie of
Monaco
- February 11 - Angie Ridgeway, golfer
- February 11 - Stephen Gregory, actor
- February 18 - Dr. Dre,
rap music performer, music producer
- February 23 - Michael
Dell, founder of Dell, Inc.
- March 1 - Stewart
Elliott, Canadian jockey
- March 4 - Gary Helms, Kick-boxer USA
- March 7 - Jesper
Parnevik, Swedish golfer
- March 9 - Benito
Santiago, baseball player
- March 10 - Rod Woodson,
American football player
- March 11 - Lawrence Llewelyn-Bowen, British television presenter
- March 12 - Steve Finley,
Major League Baseball All-Star
- March 14 - Kevin Brown,
baseball player
- March 25 - Sarah Jessica Parker, actress
April-July
- April 4 - Robert
Downey Jr., actor
- April 7 - Bill Bellamy,
actor, comedian (Fled, Any Given Sunday, Fastlane)
- April 15 - Linda Perry,
musician
- April 16 - Martin
Lawrence, 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 reported
to be March 1, 1964)
- May 9 - Steve Yzerman, ice
hockey player
- May 14 - Eoin Colfer,
writer
- May 15 - Lizi Rodriguez, psychologist and media psychotherapist
- May 16 - Krist
Novoselic, Nirvana bassist
- May 17 - Trent Reznor,
musician (Nine Inch Nails)
- May 28 - Chris Ballew,
musician
- May 31 - Brooke Shields,
actress
- June 1 - Nigel Short, chess
player
- June 4 - Mick Doohan,
Australian motorcycle racer
- June 7 - Mick Foley, professional wrestler and author
- June 10 - Elizabeth
Hurley, actress
- June 15 - Bernard
Hopkins, boxer
- June 16 - Charika Corea,Sri Lankan autism campaigner
- July 19 - Stuart Scott,
sports reporter
- July 26 - Sandra
Bullock, actress
- July 28 - Lori Loughlin,
actress
- July 31 - Joanne Kathleen Rowling, author of Harry
Potter
August-December
- August 10 - John Starks,
basketball player
- August 14 - Emmanuelle Béart, Cesar Award winning actress
- August 24 - Reggie
Miller, basketball star
- August 28 - Shania
Twain, singer/songwriter
- September 11 - Moby,
musician
- September 21 - Cheryl
Hines, actress (Curb Your Enthusiasm,
Father of the Pride)
- September 25 - Scottie Pippen, NBA star
- October 5 - Mario
Lemieux, hockey star
- October 5 - Patrick Roy, hockey star
- November 2 - Shah
Rukh Khan, actor
- November 6 - Greg
Graffin, singer and founder of Bad Religion
- November 7 - Sigrun
Wodars, East German athlete
- November 21 - Alexander Siddig, actor (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
- November 21 - Björk, Icelandic singer/songwriter/musician
- November 25 - Cris
Carter, American football player
- November 25 - Bernie Kosar, American football quarterback
- November 30 - Ben
Stiller, actor (There's Something
About Mary, Meet the Parents, Zoolander)
- December 3 - Steve Harris, actor (The Practice,
Minority Report)
- December 3 - Katarina Witt, figure skater
- December 14 - Craig
Biggio, baseball player
- December 20 - Rich
Gannon, American football quarterback
- December 27 - Salman
Khan, actor, India
Deaths
January-February
- January 4 - T. S. Eliot,
American/British poet
- January 12 - Lorraine Hansberry, writer
- January 14 - Jeanette MacDonald, American actress, singer (b. 1903)
- January 20 - Alan Freed,
disk jockey
- January 24 - Winston Churchill, British politician
- January 28 - Maxime
Weygand, soldier
- February 13 - Gloria Morgan-Vanderbilt, socialite
- February 15 - Nat
King 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 - Stan
Laurel, British actor
- February 26 - George Adamski, UFO traveler
March-December
- March 6 - Margaret
Dumont, actress
- March 13 - Corrado Gini,
statistician
- March 13 - Fan S. Noli, Albanian bishop, poet and political figure (b. 1882)
- March 17 - Amos
Alonzo Stagg, baseball, basketball and American football coach and
player
- March 18 - King Farouk I of Egypt
- March 28 - Her Royal Highness Princess Mary, The Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood
- May 25 - Sonny
Boy 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 - Le
Corbusier, Swiss architect
- August 28 - Giulio
Racah, Israeli physicist (b. 1909)
- September 4 - Albert Schweitzer, German physician (b. 1875)
- September 15 - Steve Brown, jazz musician (b. 1890)
- November 6 - Edgar
Varèse composer (b. 1883)
- November 6 - Clarence Williams, jazz musician (b. 1893)
- November 25 - Dame Myra
Hess, English pianist (b. 1890)
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