1965

1965 was a year of sweeping changes, particularly in the United States. In January, President Lyndon B. Johnson announced the plan for his “Great Society” programs. A set of Democrat, or neo-liberal programs, the Great Society programs sought to vastly expand the American welfare state and the role of the Federal government in virtually all aspects of American society, including education, the arts, medicine, the environment, and more. These programs would be continued under subsequent Republican administrations.

A notable development for the year 1965 specifically in this regard was the signing of the 1965 Civil Rights Act.

While major changes were occurring on the domestic side for America, all was not quiet on the foreign policy front either. In March of 1965, President Johnson ordered 3,500 U.S. Marines to Vietnam. These were the first official combat troops deployed to Vietnam during American involvement in that conflict.

In popular culture, The Sound of Music, starring Julie Andrews, premiered in New York City. The Beatles performed the first stadium concert in music history, playing at Shea Stadium in New York City. In December, A Charlie Brown Christmas, the first Peanuts special, made its debut, becoming a Christmastime tradition for millions.

The American space program hit a major milestone this year with the successful launch of Gemini 3, which was the first two-man crew into Earth’s orbit for the United States.

In a tremendous global development, the Second Vatican Council of the Roman Catholic Church closed in December of 1965. The council would re-shape the relationship between the Roman Catholic Church and modernity, and continues to have a significant impact around the world. At this Council, it was decided that the Church would become more open and relaxed toward the modern world, allowing for more use of vernacular languages and many changes to the liturgy, music, art, and architecture of the Church.

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Oscar Winners

All Academy Awards Prize winners of the 38th edition of the Oscar ceremony

Best picture

The Sound of Music

Best actor

Lee Marvin

Best actress

Julie Christie

Best supporting actor

Martin Balsam

Time Person of the Year

Who was the person of the year of 1965?

William Westmoreland

General Westmoreland was commander of U.S. forces in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War.

Books

Which were the most popular books released in 1965 ?
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Nobel Prizes

All Nobel Prize winners of 1965

Physics

Richard Feynman
Sin-Itiro Tomonaga
Julian Schwinger

Literature

Mikhail Sholokhov

Peace Prize

United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF)

Physiology or Medicine

François Jacob
André Michel Lwoff
Jacques Monod

Chemistry

Robert Burns Woodward

Music charts

Which were the top hits of 1965?

Top #1 songs in the USA

Four Tops - I Can't Help Myself
Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs - Wooly Bully
Gary Lewis and the Playboys - This Diamond Ring
The Righteous Brothers - You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'
Petula Clark - Downtown
The Rolling Stones - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
The Supremes - Stop! In The Name Of Love
The Temptations - My Girl
The 4 Seasons - Let's Hang On
Sonny & Cher - I Got You Babe

Top #1 songs in the UK

Ken Dodd - Tears
The Seekers - The Carnival Is Over
The Beatles - Ticket To Ride
The Seekers - I'll Never Find Another You
Sonny & Cher - I Got You Babe
Elvis Presley - Crying In The Chapel
The Hollies - I'm Alive
The Who - My Generation
The Byrds - Mr Tambourine Man
The Walker Brothers - Make It Easy On Yourself

Movies

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Popular names

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Top #10 male names

Top #10 female names

World Population

Demographic statistics of the year 1965

Population statistics

Total population: 3.3 billion (3,339,583,597 to be precise!)
Urban population: 1.2 billion, that is 36.0% of the total population of 1965 lives in cities
Yearly change: +65.5 million, corresponding to a percentage increase of +2.0%
Average density: 22.0 persons per km²

Historical Events

Which were the important events of 1965?

Events

01 Jan 1965 International Cooperation Year begins
02 Jan 1965 Martin Luther King Jr begins a drive to register black voters in the USA.
03 Jan 1965 Robert Kennedy begins term as US Senator for New York.
04 Jan 1965 United States President Lyndon B. Johnson proclaims his ''Great Society'' during his State of the Union address.
06 Jan 1965 Geoff Boycott takes 3-47 against South Africa, his best Test bowling.
07 Jan 1965 France announces it will convert US$150 million of its currency to gold.
08 Jan 1965 Star of India returned to American Museum of Natural History.
09 Jan 1965 The Mirzapur Cadet College formally opens for academic activities in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
10 Jan 1965 WKBD TV channel 50 in Detroit, MI (IND) begins broadcasting
12 Jan 1965 Hullabaloo premieres on NBC-TV
14 Jan 1965 The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years.
15 Jan 1965 Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor Michigan forms
16 Jan 1965 Oh What a Lovely War closes at Broadhurst NYC after 125 performances
18 Jan 1965 H L de Vries appointed Dutch Governor of Suriname.
19 Jan 1965 The unmanned ''Gemini 2'' is launched on a suborbital test of various spacecraft systems.
20 Jan 1965 The Rolling Stones, The Dave Clark Five and The Kink appear on Shindig
21 Jan 1965 Persians Premier Ali Mansoer injured
22 Jan 1965 US launches TIROS 9 weather satellite.
23 Jan 1965 King Family Show (musical variety) premieres on ABC TV
26 Jan 1965 South Vietnam military coup under General Nguyen Khanh.
27 Jan 1965 Ground breaking for Dragon Gateway at Grant Avenue
28 Jan 1965 The current design of the Flag of Canada is chosen by an act of Parliament.
30 Jan 1965 The Name Game by Shirley Ellis hits #3
31 Jan 1965 Pud Galvin elected to baseball Hall of Fame.
01 Feb 1965 Dutch Queen Juliana opens Brienenoord Bridge in Rotterdam
02 Feb 1965 Joe Ortons Loot, premieres in Brighton
03 Feb 1965 Geraldine McCullough wins Widener Gold Medal for Sculpture
04 Feb 1965 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
05 Feb 1965 Beursschouwburg opens in Brussels
06 Feb 1965 Kelly opens and closes at Broadhurst Theater, New York City
07 Feb 1965 Cassius Clay becomes a Muslim and adopts the name Muhammad Ali
08 Feb 1965 Eastern DC-7B crashes into Atlantic Ocean off Jones Beach, New Jersey, USA; 84 dead.
09 Feb 1965 Vietnam War: The first United States combat troops are sent to South Vietnam.
12 Feb 1965 KHFI (now KBVO) TV channel 42 in Austin, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
13 Feb 1965 Peggy Fleming, 16, wins ladies senior figure skating title
15 Feb 1965 John Lennon passes his driving test
16 Feb 1965 Baker Street opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 313 performances
17 Feb 1965 US Ranger 8 launched; will transmit 7,137 lunar pictures.
18 Feb 1965 Fade Out-Fade In opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 72 performances
20 Feb 1965 Beatles record That Means a Lot
21 Feb 1965 In New York City, New York, USA, El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X), an African American nationalist and religious leader, is assassinated by rival Nation of Islam members while addressing his Organization of Afro-American Unity.
22 Feb 1965 USSR launches Kosmos 57 into earth orbit
23 Feb 1965 Constance Baker Motley elected Manhattan Borough President
24 Feb 1965 Beatles begin filming Help in Bahamas
26 Feb 1965 West Germany ceases military aid to Tanzania.
27 Feb 1965 High Spirits closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 375 performances
01 Mar 1965 WPSX TV channel 3 in Clearfield, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting
02 Mar 1965 Sound Of Music opens
03 Mar 1965 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
04 Mar 1965 David Attenbrough became the new controller of BBC2
05 Mar 1965 Ernie Terrel beats Eddie Machen in 15 rounds for heavyweight boxing title.
06 Mar 1965 How to Succeed in Business closes at 46th St. NYC after 1415 performances
07 Mar 1965 Alabama state troopers and 600 black protestors clash in Selma
08 Mar 1965 First US combat forces arrive in South Vietnam (3,500 Marines).
09 Mar 1965 The US Treasury Department begins sales of Special Mint sets, at US$4 per set. Collectors can buy in lots of 1, 2, 5, or 10.
10 Mar 1965 Dutch Princess Margriet and Pieter van Vollenhoven, get engaged
11 Mar 1965 Indonesia President Sukarno accepts qualifications of Suharto.
13 Mar 1965 Jeff Beck replaces Eric Clapton of the Yardbirds
14 Mar 1965 Israeli cabinet approves diplomatic relations with West Germany.
15 Mar 1965 WMFE TV channel 24 in Orlando, Florida (PBS) begins broadcasting
16 Mar 1965 Police clash with 600 SNCC marchers in Montgomery, Alabama.
17 Mar 1965 Beatles announce their film is named 8 Arms to Hold on to You (Help)
18 Mar 1965 Do I Hear a Waltz? opens at 46th St. Theater NYC for 220 performances
19 Mar 1965 Stoica becomes President and Ceausescu party leader of Romania
20 Mar 1965 Venkataraghavan takes 8-72 versus New Zealand at Delhi, India.
21 Mar 1965 US Ranger 9 launched, last American unmanned lunar space probe; will take 5,814 pictures before lunar impact.
22 Mar 1965 D Senanayake wins general elections in Ceylon (Sri Lanka).
23 Mar 1965 Gemini 3 launched, first US two-man space flight (Grissom and Young).
24 Mar 1965 US Ranger 9 strikes Moon, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of crater Alphonsus.
25 Mar 1965 West German Bondsdag extends war crimes retribution.
31 Mar 1965 US orders the first combat troops to Vietnam.
01 Apr 1965 Syncom 3, first geosynchronous communications satellite, passes from civilian to military control.
02 Apr 1965 Hochhuths play Stellvertreter banned in Italy
03 Apr 1965 First atomic powered spacecraft (SNAP) launched.
04 Apr 1965 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Baton Rouge Golf Invitational.
05 Apr 1965 37th Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards: Best picture: My Fair Lady;
06 Apr 1965 Intelsat 1 ("Early Bird") launched; first commercial geosynchronous communications satellite.
07 Apr 1965 Bevan Congdon makes a stumping as 12th man New Zealand versus Pakistan.
09 Apr 1965 Beatles Ticket to Ride is released in the UK
11 Apr 1965 40 tornadoes strike US midwest killing 272 and injuring 5,000.
12 Apr 1965 Linda Darnell, US actress (Dakota Incident), dies at age 43.
13 Apr 1965 1st US Senate black page, Lawrence W Bradford Jr, 16, appointed by New York Sen Jacob Javits
14 Apr 1965 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
15 Apr 1965 NFL changes penalty flag from white to bright gold.
16 Apr 1965 Test flight of heavy Saturn S-1C rocket.
17 Apr 1965 The first SDS march against the Vietnam War draws 25,000 protestors to Washington, DC.
18 Apr 1965 Consecration of St Clement of Ohrid Macedonian Orthodox Cathedral in Toronto, Canada.
19 Apr 1965 T.A.M.I. Show premieres in London
21 Apr 1965 The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair opens for its second and final season.
23 Apr 1965 Launch of first Soviet communications satellite.
24 Apr 1965 Comedy in Music-Opus 2 closes at John Golden NYC after 192 performances
25 Apr 1965 19th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 1.
26 Apr 1965 A Rolling Stones concert in London, Ontario is shut down by police after 15 minutes due to rioting.
27 Apr 1965 RC Duncan patents "Pampers" disposable diaper.
28 Apr 1965 Barbra Streisand stars on My Name is Barbra special on CBS
29 Apr 1965 Malta is 18th member of Council of Europe.
01 May 1965 USSR launches Luna 5; later impacts on Moon
02 May 1965 New Faces of 1965 opens at Booth Theater NYC for 52 performances
03 May 1965 Don Steele, begins a 40+ year radio career at KRTH (Los Angeles, California)
05 May 1965 First large-scale US Army ground units arrive in South Vietnam.
06 May 1965 Lawry and Simpson complete opening stand of 382 against West Indies.
07 May 1965 WAOW TV channel 9 in Wausau, WI (ABC) begins broadcasting
09 May 1965 Beatles attend a Bob Dylan concert
11 May 1965 Flora, the Red Menace opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 87 performances
12 May 1965 Israel and West Germany exchange letters, beginning diplomatic relations.
13 May 1965 Rolling Stones record Satisfaction
14 May 1965 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
15 May 1965 Igor Vodic beats Mad Dog Vachon in Omaha, to become NWA champ
16 May 1965 Roar of the Greasepaint opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 232 performances
18 May 1965 Gene Roddenberry suggests 16 names including Kirk for Star Trek Captain
19 May 1965 Patricia R Harris named 1st US black female ambassador
20 May 1965 Yorkshire all out for 23 versus Hampshire at Middlesbrough.
21 May 1965 US Senator Alan Bible of Nevada introduces a bill that would give the Treasury Secretary the power to dictate what coins could be traded at a premium. It would also prohibit exportation of US coins, prohibit the melting of silver coins by unauthorized persons, outlaw unreasonable hoarding of coins, and outlaw buying or selling non-rare coins at more than face value.
22 May 1965 Super-cali-fragil-istic-expi-ali-docious hits #66
23 May 1965 Franz Jonas elected president of Austria.
24 May 1965 US Supreme Court declares federal law allowing post office to intercept communist propaganda is unconstitutional.
25 May 1965 Dave Davies of Kinks stumbles and is knocked unconscious on stage
26 May 1965 Revised International Convention on Safety of Life at Sea takes effect.
27 May 1965 Inter Milan wins 10th Europe Cup 1 in Milan, Italy.
28 May 1965 Fire and explosion at Dhori mine in Dhanbad, India kills 400.
29 May 1965 A mining accident in Dhanbad, India kills 274.
30 May 1965 Vivian Malone, is 1st black to graduate from University of Alabama
31 May 1965 Jim Clark becomes first foreigner in 49 years to win Indianapolis 500 car race.
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.
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
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.
01 Sep 1965 The San Francisco Mint facility resumes production of circulating coins. Coins had last been struck for circulation in San Francisco in 1955.
02 Sep 1965 Cubs slugger Ernie Banks hits his 400th HR
03 Sep 1965 Garcia Godoy forms government in Dominican Republic
04 Sep 1965 KREZ TV channel 6 in Durango, CO (CBS / NBC) begins broadcasting
06 Sep 1965 India invades West Pakistan
07 Sep 1965 China announces that it will reinforce its troops on the Indian border.
08 Sep 1965 Hurricane Betsy kills 75 in Louisiana and Florida
09 Sep 1965 Francois Mitterrand nominated for French presidency
10 Sep 1965 Phillies 10,000th game to a decision since 1900, Phils beat Cards
11 Sep 1965 Braves 2nd straight one-hitter against the Mets
12 Sep 1965 79th US Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith beats Billie Jean King
13 Sep 1965 Beatles release Yesterday
14 Sep 1965 F-Troop premieres
15 Sep 1965 Lost in Space premieres
16 Sep 1965 Sobibor trial opens in Hagen West Germany
17 Sep 1965 WPHL TV channel 17 in Philadelphia, PA (IND) begins broadcasting
18 Sep 1965 Get Smart premieres
19 Sep 1965 Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Visalia Golf Open
20 Sep 1965 WXXW (now WYCC) TV channel 20 in Chicago, IL (PBS) begins broadcasting
21 Sep 1965 Gambia, Maldives and Singapore are admitted as members of the United Nations.
22 Sep 1965 India and Pakistan ceases-fire goes into effect
24 Sep 1965 Belgium Victor Leemans elected Chairman of European Parliament
25 Sep 1965 Do I Hear a Waltz? closes at 46th St. Theater NYC after 220 performances
26 Sep 1965 11th LPGA Championship won by Sandra Haynie
27 Sep 1965 The largest tanker ship at the time, ''Tokyo Maru'', is launched in Yokohama, Japan.
28 Sep 1965 Jack McKay in X-15 reaches 90 km
29 Sep 1965 WLVT TV channel 39 in Allentown, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting
30 Sep 1965 LA Dodger Don Drysdale (23-12) wins 13th straight game, 7 by shutouts
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
01 Nov 1965 Ernie Terrel beats George Chuvalo in 15 for heavyweight boxing
03 Nov 1965 Sandy Koufax wins NL Cy Young Award unanimously
04 Nov 1965 Lee Breedlove sets female land speed record (308.56 mph) in Utah
05 Nov 1965 Martial law is announced in Rhodesia. The UN General Assembly accepts British intent to use force against Rhodesia if necessary by a vote of 82–9.
07 Nov 1965 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Tall City Golf Open
08 Nov 1965 Days of Our Lives premieres on TV
09 Nov 1965 5:16pm, massive power failure in New Engl, and Ontario
10 Nov 1965 Manneke Piss statue stolen in Brussels
11 Nov 1965 Heavyweight Cassius Clay KOs Floyd Patterson in Las Vegas
12 Nov 1965 Ferdinand Marcos elected President of Philippines
13 Nov 1965 Skyscraper opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 248 performances
14 Nov 1965 Baker Street closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 313 performances
15 Nov 1965 At the Cherry Plaza Hotel in Orlando, Florida, Walt Disney, Roy Disney, and Florida Governor Hayden Burns make the first public announcement of plans to build a new Disney theme park near Orlando.
16 Nov 1965 Venera 3 launched, 1st to land on another planet
17 Nov 1965 General Meeting of the UN refuses admittance of China PR
18 Nov 1965 Twins SS Zoilo Versalles is named AL MVP
19 Nov 1965 ABC radio begins weekly Vietnam Update report
20 Nov 1965 Pickwick closes at 46th St. Theater NYC after 56 performances
21 Nov 1965 1st freighter arrives in Ashdod Port Israel
22 Nov 1965 Bob Dylan weds Sara Lowndes
23 Nov 1965 31st Heisman Trophy Award: Mike Garrett, Southern California (RB)
24 Nov 1965 Marshal Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu, becomes President of Zaire
25 Nov 1965 Congo milt coup under General Mobutu, President Kasavubu overthrown
26 Nov 1965 Dodgers 2nd baseman Jim Lefebvre is voted NL Rookie of Year
27 Nov 1965 15-25,000 demonstrate against war in Vietnam in Washington DC
28 Nov 1965 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
29 Nov 1965 Anya opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 16 performances
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.

1965

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Oscar Winners

Best picture

The Sound of Music

The Sound of Music

Best actor

Lee Marvin

Cat Ballou

Best actress

Julie Christie

Darling

Best supporting actor

Martin Balsam

A Thousand Clowns

Time Person of the Year

Books

Up The Down Staircase

The Founding Father

The Green Berets

My Shadow Ran Fast

Sixpence In Her Shoe

1965 Chinese Zodiac and Horoscope

Nobel Prizes

Physics

Literature

Peace Prize

Physiology or Medicine

Chemistry

Music charts

Top #1 songs in the USA

Top #1 songs in the UK

Movies

Beat-Club

Cup Fever

For a Few Dollars More

Time to Love

The Wild Wild West

Popular names

Top #10 male names

Top #10 female names

World Population

Population statistics

Historical Events

Events