December 1965 calendar

Events

• 01 Dec 1965 South Africa government says children of white fathers are white.
• 03 Dec 1965 Beatles begin final UK concert tour in Glasgow
• 04 Dec 1965 Roar of the Greasepaint closes at Shubert NYC after 232 performances
• 05 Dec 1965 Charles de Gaulle is re-elected as French president with 10,828,421 votes.
• 08 Dec 1965 Nikolai Podgorny succeeds Mikojan as President of the USSR
• 09 Dec 1965 A Charlie Brown Christmas, premieres
• 10 Dec 1965 Yearling opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 3 performances
• 11 Dec 1965 Anya closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 16 performances
• 12 Dec 1965 Beatles last Great Britain concert
• 14 Dec 1965 La Grusse Valise opens at 54th St. Theater NYC for 7 performances
• 15 Dec 1965 Bangladesh windstorm kills 10,000
• 16 Dec 1965 Gemini 6 returns to Earth.
• 17 Dec 1965 Largest newspaper - Sunday New York Times at 946 pages (50 cents).
• 18 Dec 1965 La Grusse Valise closes at 54th St. Theater NYC after 7 performances
• 19 Dec 1965 French President Charles De Gaulle re-elected (Mitterrand gets 45 percent).
• 20 Dec 1965 WFP made a permanent UN agency.
• 22 Dec 1965 Radio Mil (Domincan Republic) transmitter blown up
• 25 Dec 1965 The Yemeni Nasserite Unionist People's Organisation is founded in Taiz
• 26 Dec 1965 Funny Girl with Barbra Streisand closes on Broadway
• 27 Dec 1965 The British oil platform ''Sea Gem'' collapses in the North Sea.
• 28 Dec 1965 Italian Foreign Minister Amintore Fanfani resigns.
• 29 Dec 1965 Thunderball premieres in US
• 31 Dec 1965 Jean-Bedel Bokassa, leader of the Central African Republic army, and his military officers begins a coup d'etat against the government of President David Dacko.

Famous Birthday

• Salman Khan

  Indian film actor, producer and television personality, with a significant following in Asia and the Indian diaspora worldwide, cited in the...

• Gong Li

  Chinese actress.

• Ariane Massenet

  French journalist, and television and radio host.

• Katarina Witt

  Figure Skater.

• Heidi Fleiss

  American businesswoman, a chic and attractive brunette known as the notorious "Hollywood Madam.

• Dexter Holland

  American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Offspring).

• John Rzeznik

  Rock Singer.

• Dany Brillant
• Gem Archer
• Andy Dick

  American actor and comedian.

• Sergi López
• Kimberly Donley

  Aurora, Illinois -- Playmate (Mar, 1993).

• Luca Cantagalli

  Italian member of the Men's Volleyball Team that won a Bronze Medal at the Atlanta Olympics on 8/04/1996.

• Abou Zeid
• Jean-Thierry Mathurin

  French serial killer of elderly women.

• Jeffrey Wright

  American actor.

• Clayton Nemrow
• Jessica Steen

  Toronto, Ontario -- Actress (Earth II, Homefront, Trial & Error).

• Fréderic Soulier (politician)
• Jérôme Bertin
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Famous Deaths

• Richard Dimbleby

  English journalist and broadcaster (Born 1913).

• Hermann Sandby

  Composer, dies at 84.

• Kusaku Yamada

  Composer, dies at 79.

• Al Ritz

  Actor (Gorilla, Hi Ya Chum), dies at 62.

• W Somerset Maugham

  English writer (Born 1874).

• Alberto Vaccari

  Italian jesuit/old testament scholar, dies at age 90.

• Henry (Dixon) Cowell

  US pianist/composer (Aeolian Harp), dies at age 68.

• Claude Adonai Champagne

  Composer, dies at 74.

• Egon Freiherr von Eickstedt

  German anthropologist, dies at age 73.

• Anthonie Donker

  Dutch [Professor N Donkersloot] literary, dies at age 63.

• William M Branham

  Christian minister (Born 1906).

• Edgar Ende

  German painter (Born 1901).

• Claude Champagne

  Canadian violinist pianist and composer (d. 1965).

• Tito [Raffaele A] Schipa

  Italian tenor/composer (Rondine), dies at age 76.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. The Byrds - Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season)
2. The Dave Clark Five - Over And Over
3. Simon & Garfunkel - The Sounds Of Silence
4. The Supremes - I Hear A Symphony
5. The Beatles - We Can Work It Out

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. The Seekers - The Carnival Is Over
2. Georgie Fame - Yeh Yeh
3. The Beatles - Day Tripper / We Can Work It Out
4. The Spencer Davis Group - Keep On Running
5. Cliff Richard - Wind Me Up (Let Me Go)