June 1965 calendar

Events

• 01 Jun 1965 Coal mine explosion in Fukuoka Japan kills 236
• 03 Jun 1965 Gemini 4 launched; second US two-man flight (McDivitt and White).
• 04 Jun 1965 Duane Earl Pope robbed the Farmers' State Bank of Big Springs, Nebraska, killing three people execution style and severely wounding a fourth. The crime landed Pope on the FBI Ten Most Wanted list.
• 05 Jun 1965 Wooly Bully by Sam the Sham and Pharaohs hits #2
• 06 Jun 1965 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Blue Grass Golf Invitational
• 07 Jun 1965 Gemini 4 completes 62 orbits
• 08 Jun 1965 USSR launches Luna 6; missed Moon
• 09 Jun 1965 Frenchman, Machal Jazy, runs record mile in 3:53.6
• 10 Jun 1965 Vietnam War: The Battle of Dong Xoai begins.
• 12 Jun 1965 Bajour closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 232 performances
• 13 Jun 1965 19th Tony Awards: Subject Was Roses and Fiddler on the Roof win
• 14 Jun 1965 Cincinnati Reds' pitcher Jim Maloney no-hits New York Mets but loses in 11, 1-0.
• 15 Jun 1965 Bob Dylan records Like a Rolling Stone
• 16 Jun 1965 A planned anti-war protest at The Pentagon becomes a teach-in, with demonstrators distributing 50,000 leaflets in and around the building.
• 17 Jun 1965 1st bombing by B-52
• 18 Jun 1965 Vietnam War: The United States uses B-52 bombers to attack National Liberation Front guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam.
• 19 Jun 1965 KYW-AM in Cleveland Ohio returns call letters to Philadelphia
• 20 Jun 1965 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open
• 21 Jun 1965 65th US Golf Open: Gary Player shoots 282 at Bellerive Country Club - St. Louis
• 22 Jun 1965 James D. Lathan and George York are hanged for the murders of 12 people in Tennessee, Illinois, Kansas, and Colorado, which took place over 12 days in 1961.
• 25 Jun 1965 A U.S. Air Force Boeing C135-A bound for Okinawa crashes just after takeoff at MCAS El Toro in Orange County, California, killing all 85 on board.
• 26 Jun 1965 Wallon party forms in Belgium
• 27 Jun 1965 Carol Mann wins LPGA Carling Golf Open
• 28 Jun 1965 Princess Beatrice and Claus von Amsberg announce engagement
• 29 Jun 1965 USAF Captain Joseph Henry Engle reaches 85,530 m in X-15
• 30 Jun 1965 NFL grants Atlanta Falcons a franchise.

Famous Birthday

• Elizabeth Hurley

  English model and actress.

• François Baroin

  French journalist and politician, mayor of Troyes, his career was launched by Jacques Chirac.

• Infanta Cristina Duchess of Palma de Mallorca
• Damien Hirst

  English painter and art collector.

• Sadie Frost

  English actress.

• Florence Guérin

  French actress, also known as Florence Nicolas, who appeared both in film and in television roles between 1980 and 2008.

• Larry Wachowski

  American film director.

• Jean-Pierre François

  French singer and former footballer (soccer player).

• Stéphane Paille
• Veronica Ferres

  German actress and producer.

• Karin Thaler
• Frédéric Le Peutrec
• Élisabeth Buffet
• Gwen Torrence

  American field and track: runner, Bronze in 100M in Atlanta, Gold in 200M in Barcelona.

• Rob Pilatus

  American-German singer and dancer (Milli Vanilli and Rob & Fab) (d. 1998).

• Kim Dickens

  American actress and model.

• Pamela Gidley
• Neil Mitchell
• Matt Gonzales
• Yang Liwei

  Chinese general pilot and astronaut.

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Famous Deaths

• Judy Holliday

  American actress and winner of the Oscar for Best Actress in 1950 for her "Born Yesterday.

• David O Selznick

  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania -- Producer (Gone With the Wind).

• Steve Cochran

  American actor; from his start with summer stock in 1939 he played "heavy" roles in B films of the '40s and '50s.

• George Melachrino

  Composer, dies at 56.

• Red Nichols

  American jazz cornettist, composer, and jazz bandleader, who recorded in a wide variety of musical styles.

• Johan C T Kikkert

  Painter / etcher / critic, dies at 82.

• Reginald Beckwith

  Actor / writer (39 Steps, Dr in Love), dies at 56.

• [Theodora E] Betsy Ranucci-Beckman

  Actress (Dood Water), dies at 88.

• Sidney Marion

  Actor (Outlaws is Coming, Quicksand), dies at 64.

• Arnold Meijer

  Leader (Fascist Nationally Front).

• Anthony Veiller

  Writer, dies at 62.

• Edmondo Rossoni

  Italian fascist (Born 1884).

• E A Speiser

  American Bible scholar (Born 1902).

• Earl ''Curly'' Lambeau

  American football coach (Born 1898).

• Jose Mendes Cabecadas

  95th Prime Minister of Portugal and 9th President of Portugal (Born 1883).

• Martin Buber

  Jewish philosopher and Zionist leader noted for his studies of Hasidism, a mystical movement.

• Guido Guerrini

  Composer, dies at 74.

• Bernard Verhoeven

  Poet / educator (Pleidooi near een non).

• David Drummond

  Australian farmer and politician (d. 1965).

• Ira Louvin

  American singer-songwriter and mandolin player (The Louvin Brothers) (d. 1965).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. The Beach Boys - Help Me, Rhonda
2. The Supremes - Back In My Arms Again
3. Four Tops - I Can't Help Myself
4. The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man
5. Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs - Wooly Bully

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Elvis Presley - Crying In The Chapel
2. The Hollies - I'm Alive
3. Sandie Shaw - Long Live Love
4. The Yardbirds - Heart Full Of Soul
5. The Byrds - Mr Tambourine Man