What Happened In October 1965 In History

Historical Events for October, 1965

• 1st » General Suharto puts down an apparent coup attempt by the 30 September Movement in Indonesia.
• 4th » Pope Paul VI arrives in New York, the first Pope to visit the United States of America and the Western hemisphere.
• 15th » Vietnam War: The Catholic Worker Movement stages an anti-war rally in Manhattan including a public Draft-card burning or burning of a draft card; the first such act to result in arrest under a new amendment to the Selective Service Act.
• 21st » Comet Ikeya-Seki approaches perihelion, passing 450,000 kilometers (279,617 miles) from the sun.
• 23rd » Vietnam War: The 1st Cavalry Division (United States) (Airmobile), in conjunction with South Vietnamese forces, launches a new operation seeking to destroy North Vietnamese forces in Pleiku in the II Corps Tactical Zone (the Central Highlands).
• 28th » Construction on the St. Louis Arch is completed.
• 30th » Vietnam War: Just miles from Da Nang, United States Marines repel an intense attack by wave after wave of Viet Cong forces, killing 56 guerrillas.

Famous Birthdays on October in 1965

• 1st » Andreas Keller, German field hockey player
• 1st » Ted King (actor) known as Ted King, American actor
• 1st » Cindy Margolis, American model and actress
• 1st » Chris Reason, Australian journalist
• 1st » Cliff Ronning, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 3rd » Annemarie Verstappen, Dutch swimmer
• 3rd » Jan-Ove Waldner, Swedish table tennis player
• 4th » Olaf Backasch, German footballer
• 4th » Skip Heller, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 4th » Micky Ward, American boxer
• 5th » Trace Armstrong, American football player
• 5th » Theo Bos (footballer) named Theo Bos, Dutch footballer, coach, and manager (d. 2013)
• 5th » Mario Lemieux, Canadian ice hockey player
• 5th » Patrick Roy, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 6th » Steve Scalise, American politician
• 6th » Rubén Sierra, Puerto Rican baseball player
• 7th » Genji Hashimoto, Japanese race car driver
• 8th » Matt Biondi, American swimmer
• 8th » Peter Greene, American actor
• 8th » Harri Koskela, Finnish wrestler
• 8th » C. J. Ramone, American singer-songwriter and bass player (The Ramones, 22 Jacks, Los Gusanos, and The Ramainz)
• 9th » Jimbo Fisher, American football player and coach
• 10th » Toshi (musician) called Toshi, Japanese singer-songwriter and producer (X Japan)
• 10th » Chris Penn, American actor (d. 2006)
• 10th » Rebecca Pidgeon, American-English singer-songwriter and actress
• 11th » Rikishi (wrestler) called Rikishi, American wrestler
• 11th » Sean Patrick Flanery, American actor
• 11th » Alexander Hacke, German singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Einstürzende Neubauten)
• 11th » Orlando Hernández, Cuban baseball player
• 11th » Volodymyr Horily, Ukrainian footballer
• 11th » Luke Perry, American actor and producer
• 11th » Ronit Roy, Indian actor and businessman
• 12th » J. J. Daigneault, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 13th » Johan Museeuw, Belgian cyclist
• 14th » Steve Coogan, English actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 14th » Jüri Jaanson, Estonian rower
• 14th » Constantine Koukias, Greek-Australian flute player and composer
• 14th » Karyn White, American singer-songwriter
• 15th » Nasser El Sonbaty, German bodybuilder (d. 2013)
• 16th » Kang Kyung-ok, South Korean illustrator
• 16th » Steve Lamacq, English radio host
• 16th » Tom Tolbert, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 17th » Aravinda de Silva, Sri Lankan cricketer
• 18th » Zakir Naik, Indian surgeon
• 18th » Curtis Stigers, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 19th » Brad Daugherty (basketball) called Brad Daugherty, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 19th » Ty Pennington, American carpenter and television host
• 20th » Norman Blake (Scottish musician) Norman Blake, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Teenage Fanclub, BMX Bandits (band) BMX Bandits, and Jonny (band) Jonny)
• 20th » Jil Caplan, French singer-songwriter
• 20th » Mikhail Shtalenkov, Russian ice hockey player
• 20th » William Zabka, American actor and producer
• 21st » Ion Andoni Goikoetxea, Spanish footballer and manager
• 21st » Horace Hogan, American wrestler
• 21st » Hisashi Imai, Japanese singer-songwriter and guitarist (BUCK-TICK, Schaft, and Schwein)
• 22nd » Otis Smith (American football) called Otis Smith, American football player and coach
• 22nd » John Wesley Harding (singer) known as John Wesley Harding, English singer-songwriter
• 22nd » Piotr Wiwczarek, Polish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Vader (band) named Vader)
• 23rd » Augusten Burroughs, American author and screenwriter
• 23rd » Al Leiter, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 24th » Kyriakos Velopoulos, Greek journalist and politician
• 25th » Þorsteinn Bachmann, Icelandic actor
• 25th » Claire Colebrook, Australian cultural theorist
• 25th » Rebecca Pidgeon, English-American actress and singer-songwriter
• 25th » 2 Cold Scorpio, American wrestler
• 26th » Aaron Kwok, Hong Kong singer, dancer, and actor
• 26th » Kelly Rowan, Canadian actress and producer
• 28th » Jami Gertz, American actress and producer
• 29th » Tyler Collins, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 30th » Gavin Rossdale, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Bush (band) known as Bush and Institute (band) named Institute)
• 31st » Paul du Toit, South African painter and sculptor (d. 2014)
• 31st » Blue Edwards, American basketball player
• 31st » Denis Irwin, Irish footballer and journalist
• 31st » Rob Rackstraw, English voice actor

Famous Deaths for October 1965

• 3rd » Zachary Scott, American actor (b. 1914)
• 11th » Dorothea Lange, American photographer (b. 1895)
• 11th » Walther Stampfli, Swiss politician, 50th President of the Swiss Confederation (b. 1884)
• 12th » Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine known as Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 14th » William Hogenson, American sprinter (b. 1884)
• 14th » Randall Jarrell, American poet and author (b. 1914)
• 15th » Abraham Fraenkel, German-Israeli mathematician and academic (b. 1891)
• 17th » Bart King, Filipino cricketer (b. 1873)
• 18th » Henry Travers, English-American actor (b. 1874)
• 18th » Lauri Törni, Finnish-American Special Forces officer (b. 1919)
• 21st » Bill Black, American bass player (The Blue Moon Boys) (b. 1926)
• 22nd » Muriel George, English singer and actress (b. 1883)
• 24th » Samuel Karnarvon Asbell, Saskatchewan politician stubs (b. 1914)
• 25th » Eduard Einstein, Swiss son of Albert Einstein (b. 1910)
• 26th » Sylvia Likens, American Torture murder named torture victim (b. 1949)
• 28th » Earl Bostic, American saxophonist (b. 1913)
• 30th » Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., American historian and author (b. 1888)

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