July 1965 calendar

Events

• 01 Jul 1965 KUID TV channel 12 in Moscow, ID (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 02 Jul 1965 79th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Roy Emerson beats Fred Stolle
• 03 Jul 1965 72nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith beats M Fraiser
• 04 Jul 1965 Homophile activists picket at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, the first in a series of Annual Reminders of the second-class status of LGBT people in the United States.
• 06 Jul 1965 Rock group "Jefferson Airplane" forms.
• 07 Jul 1965 Otis Redding records Respect
• 08 Jul 1965 Joe Morgan is 1st Houston player with 6 hits in a game
• 09 Jul 1965 94th British Golf Open: Peter Thomson shoots a 285 at Royal Birkdale
• 11 Jul 1965 Israeli Mapai-party nominates David Ben-Gurion
• 13 Jul 1965 36th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-5 at Metropolitan Stadium, Minnesota
• 14 Jul 1965 Australian Ronald Clarke runs world record 10k
• 15 Jul 1965 Mariner IV sends back 1st pictures of Mars
• 16 Jul 1965 Mount Blanc Road tunnel between France and Italy opens
• 17 Jul 1965 WLCY (now WTSP) TV channel 10 in St. Petersburg-Tampa, Florida (ABC) begins
• 18 Jul 1965 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Yankee Golf Open
• 19 Jul 1965 Shooting begins on Star Trek 2nd pilot Where No Man Has Gone Before
• 20 Jul 1965 New York Yankee pitcher Mel Stottlemyre hits an inside-the-park grand slam
• 21 Jul 1965 Pakistan, Iran, and Turkey sign Regional Co-Operation pact.
• 22 Jul 1965 Edward Heath succeeds Alec Douglas-Hume as leader of British Conservative party
• 23 Jul 1965 Beatles Help is released in the UK
• 24 Jul 1965 Flora, the Red Menace closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 87 performances
• 25 Jul 1965 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Tournament
• 26 Jul 1965 Republic of Maldives gains independence from Britain
• 27 Jul 1965 Pierre Harmel forms Belgium government
• 28 Jul 1965 LBJ sends 50,000 more soldiers to Vietnam
• 29 Jul 1965 Beatles movie Help premieres, Queen Elizabeth attends
• 30 Jul 1965 LBJ signs Medicare bill, which goes into effect in 1966
• 31 Jul 1965 Cigarette Ads banned on British TV

Famous Birthday

• J K Rowling
• Slash (Guns N' Roses)
• Connie Nielsen

  Danish actress.

• Jeremy Piven

  American actor.

• Kathryn Erbe

  American actress known for her role as Det.

• Dina Eastwood
• Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark
• Vincent Moscato

  French actor and humorist, sport radio talk host, former player (hooker) of the rugby union.

• Shawn Micheals
• Mo Collins

  American actress and screenwriter.

• Illeana Douglas

  American actress.

• Eva Ionesco
• David Miliband

  English politician Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs.

• Horace Grant

  American athlete, a basketball forward, a first-round pick out of Clemson in 1987.

• Michel Desjoyeaux

  French sailor.

• Harvey Grant

  American athlete, a basketball forward with the Portland Trailblazers, a first-round draft pick out of Oklahoma in 1988.

• Kadeem Hardison

  Actor (A Different World, The Sixth Man).

• Marc Trévidic

  French magistrate, he has been in charge of the "Monks of Tibhirine Affair".

• Evelyn Glennie

  Scottish musician, a highly noted deaf percussionist, a consummate musician who is recognized as the "First Lady" of solo percussion.

• Daniela Mercury
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Famous Deaths

• Porfirio Rubirosa

  Dominican race car driver polo player and diplomat (d. 1965).

• Wally Hammond

  English cricketer and coach (d. 1965).

• Theodora E "Betsy" Ranucci-Beckmann

  Actress (Klatergoud), dies at 88.

• Clarence Loomis

  Composer, dies at 75.

• Trigger

  Horse (Roy Rogers), dies at 25.

• Shalva Mikhailovich Taktakishvili

  Composer, dies at 64.

• Maurice Yvain

  Composer, dies at 74.

• Junichiro Tanizaki

  Japanese writer (Key), dies at 79.

• Francis Cherry

  American politician (Born 1908).

• Photios Kontoglou

  Greek writer, painter and iconographer (Born 1895).

• Daniel-Rops

  French writer and historian (Born 1901).

• Sheikh Attallah Suheimat

  Arab and Jordanian leader, politician ,and a statesperson.

• Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

  Japanese novelist (Born 1886).

• Jacques Audiberti

  French playwright, poet and novelist and exponent of the Theatre of the Absurd.

• Constance Bennett

  American actress noted in '30s and '40s.

• Syngman Rhee

  Korean politician, a leading figure in the movement for Korean independence from Japan; in political exile for 35 years.

• Moshe Sharett

  Israeli politican.

• Adlai Stevenson

  American politician, the eldest of three sons of Illinois governor Adlai Stevenson.

• Christfried Burmeister

  Estonian speed skater (Born 1898).

• Edogawa Ranpo

  Japanese author and critic (d. 1965).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Four Tops - I Can't Help Myself
2. The Rolling Stones - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
3. Herman's Hermits - I'm Henry VIII, I Am
4. The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man
5. Tom Jones - What's New Pussycat

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. The Hollies - I'm Alive
2. The Beatles - Help!
3. The Yardbirds - Heart Full Of Soul
4. The Fortunes - You've Got Your Troubles
5. The Byrds - Mr Tambourine Man