April 1965 calendar

Events

• 01 Apr 1965 Syncom 3, first geosynchronous communications satellite, passes from civilian to military control.
• 02 Apr 1965 Hochhuths play Stellvertreter banned in Italy
• 03 Apr 1965 First atomic powered spacecraft (SNAP) launched.
• 04 Apr 1965 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Baton Rouge Golf Invitational.
• 05 Apr 1965 37th Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards: Best picture: My Fair Lady;
• 06 Apr 1965 Intelsat 1 ("Early Bird") launched; first commercial geosynchronous communications satellite.
• 07 Apr 1965 Bevan Congdon makes a stumping as 12th man New Zealand versus Pakistan.
• 09 Apr 1965 Beatles Ticket to Ride is released in the UK
• 11 Apr 1965 40 tornadoes strike US midwest killing 272 and injuring 5,000.
• 12 Apr 1965 Linda Darnell, US actress (Dakota Incident), dies at age 43.
• 13 Apr 1965 1st US Senate black page, Lawrence W Bradford Jr, 16, appointed by New York Sen Jacob Javits
• 14 Apr 1965 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
• 15 Apr 1965 NFL changes penalty flag from white to bright gold.
• 16 Apr 1965 Test flight of heavy Saturn S-1C rocket.
• 17 Apr 1965 The first SDS march against the Vietnam War draws 25,000 protestors to Washington, DC.
• 18 Apr 1965 Consecration of St Clement of Ohrid Macedonian Orthodox Cathedral in Toronto, Canada.
• 19 Apr 1965 T.A.M.I. Show premieres in London
• 21 Apr 1965 The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair opens for its second and final season.
• 23 Apr 1965 Launch of first Soviet communications satellite.
• 24 Apr 1965 Comedy in Music-Opus 2 closes at John Golden NYC after 192 performances
• 25 Apr 1965 19th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 1.
• 26 Apr 1965 A Rolling Stones concert in London, Ontario is shut down by police after 15 minutes due to rioting.
• 27 Apr 1965 RC Duncan patents "Pampers" disposable diaper.
• 28 Apr 1965 Barbra Streisand stars on My Name is Barbra special on CBS
• 29 Apr 1965 Malta is 18th member of Council of Europe.

Famous Birthday

• Robert Downey Jr
• Natalie Dessay

  French soprano and opera star, she sang her first opera in 1992, at Paris' Opera Bastille.

• Didier Derlich

  French clairvoyant and astrologer.

• Martin Lawrence

  Movie Actor.

• Suge Knight

  American CEO of Death Row Records, a scowling black man-mountain nicknamed "sugar bear.

• Alexandre Jardin

  French writer and the son of writer Pascal Jardin.

• Paulina Porizkova

  Prostejov, Czechoslovakia -- Model (Playboy-Aug 87).

• Kevin James

  Movie Actor.

• Stéphane Courbit

  French businessman in the sector of media and television.

• Islamic Republic of Iran
• Simona Ventura

  Italian beauty queen and winner of a contest.

• Adrian Pasdar

  American actor, voice artist, and film director.

• Linda Perry

  American rock singer-songwriter, and record producer.

• Rodney King

  American news figure due to being stopped by police as a motorist in a Los Angeles suburb and savagely beaten, captured on videotape by a...

• Jon Cryer

  American actor.

• Fabrice Bénichou
• David Brécourt
• Steven Stayner

  American missing child, he was kidnapped in 12/1972 by pedophile Kenneth Parnell.

• Mark Pellegrino

  American actor.

• Franck Black
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Famous Deaths

• Linda Darnell

  American glamorous actress, the daughter of a postal clerk and an ambitious stage mom who groomed her for show biz from the time she was...

• Edward R Murrow

  newscaster (Person to Person), dies at age 57.

• Syd Chaplin

  dies at age 80.

• Josephina J "Fien" de la Mar

  Dutch actress (Pygmalion), dies at 67.

• Aaron Avshalomov

  Composer, dies at 70.

• Alan Bunce

  Actor (Albert-Ethel & Albert), dies at 61.

• Ernst Kirchweger

  Austrian communist and resistance fighter (Born 1898).

• Edward Victor Appleton

  English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1892).

• Perry E Smith

  US murderer (In Cold Blood), hanged.

• Henry D G Crerar

  Canadian General (World War I, Normandy), dies at age 76.

• Erik A Blomberg

  Swedish art historian/poet/author, dies at age 70.

• Robert E Hickok

  US murderer (In Cold Blood), hanged.

• Edward V Appleton

  English physicist (Nobel Prize 1947), dies at age 72.

• Dick Hickock

  (Born 1933) and Perry Smith (b.

• Ferdinand Bordewijk

  Dutch writer of magic realistic novels and short stories, poet and lawyer.

• Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena

  Mexican electrical engineer who was the inventor of a color-wheel type of color television, and who also introduced color television to...

• Helena Rubinstein

  Polish-American entrepreneur who began to tap her marketing genius by selling homemade face cream in 1890.

• Lloyd Casner

  American race car driver and owner (Born 1928).

• George Davis

  American highly decorated fighter pilot and flying ace of the United States Army Air Forces in World War II, and later of the US Air Force...

• Leonard Mudie

  dies of heart ailment at age 82.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. The Supremes - Stop! In The Name Of Love
2. Freddie and the Dreamers - I'm Telling You Now
3. Wayne Fontana - Game Of Love
4. Herman's Hermits - Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter
5. Herman's Hermits - Can't You Hear My Heartbeat

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Unit 4+2 - Concrete And Clay
2. The Beatles - Ticket To Ride
3. Cliff Richard - The Minute You're Gone
4. Roger Miller - King Of The Road
5. The Rolling Stones - The Last Time