October 1965 calendar

Events

• 01 Oct 1965 Failed coup under lt col Untung in Indonesia
• 02 Oct 1965 Dodgers beat Braves to clinch NL pennant
• 03 Oct 1965 Cubs tie major league record of 3 triple plays in a season
• 04 Oct 1965 Pickwick opens at 46th St. Theater NYC for 56 performances
• 05 Oct 1965 Chuck Linster performs 6,006 consecutive push-ups.
• 06 Oct 1965 Supremes release I Hear a Symphony
• 07 Oct 1965 Charles Linster does 6,006 consecutive push-ups
• 08 Oct 1965 Djakarta Moslems set fire to PKI-headquarter
• 10 Oct 1965 Drat! - The Cat! opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 8 performances
• 13 Oct 1965 Congo President Joseph Kasavubu fires Prime Minister Moise Tshombe and forms a provisional government, with Evariste Kimba in a leading position.
• 14 Oct 1965 Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 80 km
• 15 Oct 1965 WEMT (now WVII) TV channel 7 in Bangor, ME (ABC) begins broadcasting
• 16 Oct 1965 Drat! - The Cat! closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 8 performances
• 17 Oct 1965 On A Clear Day You Can See Forever opens in NYC for 280 performances
• 18 Oct 1965 The Indonesian government outlaws the Communist Party of Indonesia.
• 20 Oct 1965 19th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 5-2 at Montreal
• 21 Oct 1965 KTWU TV channel 11 in Topeka, KS (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 24 Oct 1965 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Phoenix Thunderbirds Golf Tournament
• 25 Oct 1965 Rolling Stones release "Get Off of My Cloud".
• 26 Oct 1965 Beatles receive MBEs at Buckingham Palace
• 27 Oct 1965 WCFT TV channel 33 in Tuscaloosa, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 28 Oct 1965 In St. Louis, Missouri, construction is completed on the Gateway Arch, a 630-foot-high parabola of stainless steel. The arch was erected to commemorate President Thomas Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase of 1803.
• 30 Oct 1965 Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Las Cruces Golf Open

Famous Birthday

• Gavin Rossdale

  English musician and actor, known as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the rock band Bush.

• Ty Pennington

  American carpenter and television host.

• Mathieu Amalric

  French actor and filmmaker.

• Philippe Torreton

  French actor and politician.

• Sanjay Kapoor
• Vincent McDoom
• Sean Patrick Flanery

  American actor.

• Jami Gertz

  American actress and producer.

• Nasser El Sonbaty
• Steve Coogan

  English actor.

• Mario Lemieux

  Canadian-American hockey player, the pre-eminent star of his game with effortless ease.

• Franck Sauzée

  French international footballer and manager.

• Aaron Kwok

  Hong Kong singer dancer and actor.

• Jil Caplan

  French singer, she studied Literature at Sorbonne University and theatre at the Cours Florent (Paris).

• William Zabka

  American actor and producer.

• Matt Biondi

  American athlete on the 1984 Olympics swimming team who competed in the 400 meter free style relay, his first international competition.

• Patrick Roy (ice hockey)
• Cindy Margolis

  American model and spokesmodel.

• Günther Huber
• Sidi Oraza
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Famous Deaths

• French Luitjes

  Dutch athlete, dies at 21.

• Edward E "Doc" Smith

  United States -- Sci-fi writer (Subspace encounter).

• [John] Selwyn (Brooke) Lloyd

  British statesman.

• Gustaf Adolf Tiburtius Bengtsson

  Composer, dies at 79.

• Georges Vandertongerloo

  Flemish Sculptor / painter, dies at 78.

• Georgy Mikhaylovich Rimsky-Korsakov

  Composer, dies at 63.

• Carl Hoff

  Orchestra leader (Music Hall), dies at 60.

• Frank Hutchens

  Composer, dies at 73.

• Gareth Hughes

  Actor (Midnight Girl), dies at 71.

• Dipa Nusantara Aidit

  Indonesian leader (PKI 1951-65), murdered at 42.

• Ben Barka

  Moroccan opposition leader, kidnapped and murdered in Paris.

• Mehdi Am Barka

  Moroccan socialist leader, murdered in Paris.

• Rita Johnson

  Actress (All Mine to Give), dies at 53.

• Paul Hermann Muller

  Swiss chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Born 1899).

• John Barton King

  Philadelphian cricketer (Born 1873).

• Larry Thorne

  US soldier (Born 1919).

• Paul Tillich

  German-American philosopher and theologian, influential as a comprehensive thinker.

• Abraham Fraenkel

  German-Israeli mathematician and academic (d. 1965).

• Zachary Scott

  US actor, (Southerner, Flame of Islands), dies at 51.

• Earl Bostic

  American saxophonist (Born 1913).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. The McCoys - Hang On Sloopy
2. The Beatles - Yesterday
3. Barry McGuire - Eve Of Destruction
4. Roy Head - Treat Her Right
5. The Toys - A Lover's Concerto

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Ken Dodd - Tears
2. The Rolling Stones - Get Off Of My Cloud
3. Andy Williams - Almost There
4. Manfred Mann - If You Gotta Go Go Now
5. Chris Andrews - Yesterday Man