August 1965 calendar

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Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in August 1965.
The US president was Lyndon B. Johnson (Democrat), the UK Prime Minister was Harold Wilson (Labour), Pope St Paul VI was leading the Catholic Church.

But much more happened on August 1965: find out below

Historical Events

Which were the important events of August 1965?

Events

01 Aug 1965 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open
02 Aug 1965 Morley Safer sends first Vietnam report indicating US is losing war.
04 Aug 1965 Cook Islands enters into free association with New Zealand
05 Aug 1965 Dave Marr wins PGA title
06 Aug 1965 32nd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Cleveland 24, All-Stars 16
07 Aug 1965 The infamous first party between Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters and motorcycle gang the Hells Angels takes place at Kesey's estate in La Honda, California introducing psychedelics to the gang world and forever linking the hippie movement to the Hell's Angels.
08 Aug 1965 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Milwaukee Golf Open
09 Aug 1965 Fire in Titan II silo in Searcy Arkansas, 53 die
10 Aug 1965 Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 82 km
11 Aug 1965 6 day insurrection starts in Watts section of Los Angeles
12 Aug 1965 Elizabeth Lane becomes 1st female British Supreme Court Justice
13 Aug 1965 The rock group Jefferson Airplane debuts at the Matrix in San Francisco, California and begins to appear there regularly.
14 Aug 1965 Beatles tape an appearance for Ed Sullivan Show
15 Aug 1965 47th PGA Championship: Dave Marr shoots a 280 at Laurel Valley Golf Club - Pennsylvania
16 Aug 1965 AFL awards its first expansion franchise (Miami Dolphins).
18 Aug 1965 Vietnam War: Operation Starlite begins : United States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in the first major American ground battle of the war.
19 Aug 1965 Auschwitz trials end with 6 life sentences
20 Aug 1965 Eddie Mathews and Hank Aaron (1954-65) pass Babe Ruth-Lou Gehrig hitting 772 HRs while playing together on the same team
21 Aug 1965 Gemini 5 launched into Earth orbit (two astronauts).
22 Aug 1965 Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Omaha Jaycee Golf Open
27 Aug 1965 Beatles spend an evening with Elvis Presley
29 Aug 1965 Astronauts Cooper and Conrad complete 120 Earth orbits in Gemini 5.
30 Aug 1965 Section of Allalin glacier wipes out construction site at Mattmark Dam near Saas-Fee, Switzerland.
31 Aug 1965 US House of Representatives joins Senate in establishing Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Famous Birthday

Shania Twain
Country Singer.
KRS-One
American rapper.
Kyra Sedgwick
American actress.
Jean-Marc Morandini
French-Corsican journalist, TV host and radio presenter.
Maria de Medeiros
Portuguese actress singer and director.
Viola Davis
American actress.
Amanda Tapping
Canadian actress, director and producer.
Arno Klarsfeld
French-Israeli lawyer, who has conducted various national missions at the request of President Nicolas Sarkozy.
Reggie Miller
American black noted pro basketball player chosen by the Indiana Pacers in the first round draft pick out of UCLA on 22 June 1987.
Sam Mendes
British stage and film director.
Marlee Matlin
American actress and winner of an Oscar as Best Actress in "Children of a Lesser God," 1985.
Peter Krause
American actor and producer.
Vincent Perrot
French journalist, radio and TV presenter, and drag racing driver.
Luc Alphand
French skier and winner of the World Cup events in 1995 and 1996, when he won a Bronze Medal (downhill) in the World championships.
Umberto Pelizzari
Italian scuba diver who set a record for diving without any breathing apparatus in 1988, staying underwater for 5' 33".
Flex Wheeler
Eric Saint Martin
French jockey, winner of the Arc de Triomphe in 1993, riding Urban Sea.
Bogotá (Colombia)
David Robinson
Florida, United States -- NBA center (San Antonio Spurs, Olympics - Gold - 92).
Stéphane Peterhansel
French driver, he won 6 Paris-Dakar rallys in the motorcycle category and then 6 Paris-Dakar rallys in the car category.
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Famous Deaths

Shirley Jackson
American Gothic novelist, known as the "Virginia Werewolf of séance fiction," a prolific and disciplined writer whose typewriter kept going...
Aksel Sandemose
Writer.
Everett Sloane
Dies of apparent suicide with barbiturates at 55.
Peter Ronnefeld
Composer, dies at 30.
Shirley Hardie Jackson
US Author (Road Through the Wall), dies at 45.
Jan van Nijlen
Flemish Poet / writer (Walk at Dawn).
Vasily Petrovich Shirinsky
Composer, dies at 64.
Henriette de Vreker-Verschuur
Actress (Revolt in Mental Home).
John Bata
Czech shoe manufacturer, dies at 67.
Edmond of Dooren
Flemish painter, dies at 68.
Le Corbusier [Charles Jeanneret]
Swiss / French architect, dies at 77.
Otto Reinhold
Composer, dies at 66.
Giulio Racah
Israeli physicist (Born 1909).
Jonathan Myrick Daniels
American activist (Born 1939).
Moonlight Graham
American baseball player (Born 1879).
Vello Kaaristo
Estonian cross-country skier (Born 1911).
Bill Woodfull
Australian cricketer and educator (d. 1965).
Ellen Church
American airline stewardess (Born 1904).
Creighton Hale
Silent film actor (Cat & Canary), dies at 83.
Kiyoshi Nobutoki
Composer, dies at 77.
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