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Historical Events for the Year 1965

  • 4th January » President of the United States called United States President Lyndon B. Johnson proclaims his "Great Society" during his State of the Union address.
  • 9th January » The Mirzapur Cadet College formally opens for academic activities in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
  • 26th January » Hindi becomes the official language of India.
  • 28th January » The current design of the Flag of Canada is chosen by an act of Parliament of Canada named Parliament.
  • 1st February » The Hamilton River in Labrador, Canada is renamed the Churchill River (Atlantic) named Churchill River in honour of Winston Churchill.
  • 8th February » Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean and explodes, killing everyone aboard.
  • 9th February » Vietnam War: The first United States troops with a combat mission, a Marine Corps Hawk air defense missile battalion, are sent to South Vietnam.
  • 15th February » A new red-and-white maple leaf design is adopted as the flag of Canada, replacing the old Canadian Red Ensign banner.
  • 17th February » Ranger program e.g Project Ranger: The Ranger 8 probe launches on its mission to photograph the 'Mare Tranquillitatis' region of the Moon in preparation for the manned Apollo program named Apollo missions. 'Mare Tranquillitatis' or the "Sea of Tranquility
  • 18th February » The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
  • 19th February » Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, and a communist spy of the North Vietnamese Viet Minh, along with Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Trần Thiện Khiêm 1965 South Vietnamese coup or attempted a coup against the military Military dictat
  • 20th February » Ranger 8 crashes into the moon after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program astronauts.
  • 21st February » Malcolm X is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City by members of the Nation of Islam.
  • 2nd March » The United States Air Force e.g US and Vietnam Air Force called South Vietnamese Air Force begin Operation Rolling Thunder, a sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam.
  • 5th March » March Intifada: A Left-wing politics e.g Leftist uprising erupts in Bahrain against British colonial presence.
  • 6th March » Premier Thomas Playford IV or Tom Playford of South Australia loses power after 27 years in office.
  • 7th March » Selma to Montgomery marches known as Bloody Sunday: a group of 600 Civil Rights e.g civil rights marchers is brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama.
  • 15th March » President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to the Selma, Alabama known as Selma crisis, tells Congress of the United States known as U.S. Congress "We shall overcome" while advocating the Voting Rights Act.
  • 18th March » Astronaut named Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to Extra-vehicular activity called walk in space.
  • 19th March » The wreck of the SS known as Georgiana, valued at over $50,000,000 and said to have been the most powerful Confederate States of America known as Confederate cruiser, is discovered by teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence, exact
  • 21st March » Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9, the last in a series of unmanned Moon or lunar space probes.
  • 21st March » Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma, Alabama or Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
  • 23rd March » The first issue of 'The Vigilant' is published from Khartoum.
  • 24th March » NASA spacecraft Ranger 9, equipped to convert its signals into a form suitable for showing on domestic television, brings images of the Moon into ordinary homes before crash landing.
  • 25th March » Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King, Jr. successfully complete Selma to Montgomery marches called their 4-day 50-mile march from Selma, Alabama known as Selma to the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.
  • 30th March » Vietnam War: A car bomb explodes in front of the United States Embassy, Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others.
  • 4th April » The first model of the new Saab Viggen fighter aircraft is unveiled.
  • 6th April » Launch of Intelsat I named Early Bird, the first communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit.
  • 6th April » The British Government announces the cancellation of the BAC TSR-2 e.g TSR-2 aircraft project.
  • 9th April » Astrodome opens. First indoor baseball game is played.
  • 11th April » The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states, killing 256 people.
  • 25th April » Teenage sniper Highway 101 Snipe attack -1965 or Michael Andrew Clark kills three and wounds six others shooting from a hilltop along Highway 101 just south of Santa Maria, California.
  • 26th April » A Rolling Stones concert in London, Ontario is shut down by police after 15 minutes due to rioting.
  • 28th April » 1965 United States occupation of the Dominican Republic named United States occupation of the Dominican Republic: American troops land in the Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship" and to evacuate United States Army na
  • 1st May » Battle of Dong-Yin, a naval conflict between ROC and PRC, takes place.
  • 12th May » The Soviet spacecraft 'Luna 5' crashes on the Moon.
  • 18th May » Israeli spy Eli Cohen was hanged in Damascus, Syria.
  • 20th May » PIA Flight 705, a Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 720 named Boeing 720-040B, crashes while descending to land at Cairo International Airport, killing 121 of the 127 passengers and crew.
  • 27th May » Vietnam War: American warships begin the first bombardment of National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam known as National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam.
  • 3rd June » The launch of 'Gemini 4', the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew. Edward Higgins White known as Ed White, a crew member, performs the first American Extra-vehicular activity known as spacewalk.
  • 7th June » The Supreme Court of the United States hands down its decision in 'Griswold v. Connecticut', effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples.
  • 9th June » The civilian Prime Minister of South Vietnam, Phan Huy Quát, resigns after being unable to work with a junta led by Nguyễn Cao Kỳ.
  • 9th June » Vietnam War: The Viet Cong commences combat with the Army of the Republic of Vietnam in the Battle of Dong Xoai, one of the largest battles in the war.
  • 18th June » Vietnam War: The United States uses B-52 Stratofortress B-52 bombers to attack National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam National Liberation Front guerrilla warfare guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam.
  • 19th June » Nguyễn Cao Kỳ becomes Prime Minister of South Vietnam at the head of a military junta; General Nguyễn Văn Thiệu becomes the figurehead chief of state.
  • 14th July » The Mariner 4 flyby of Mars takes the first close-up photos of another planet.
  • 16th July » The Mont Blanc Tunnel linking France and Italy opens.
  • 25th July » Bob Dylan goes Electric Dylan controversy named electric as he plugs in at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music.
  • 26th July » Full independence is granted to the Maldives.
  • 28th July » Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces his order to increase the number of United States troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000.
  • 29th July » Vietnam War: The first 4,000 101st Airborne Division paratroopers arrive in Vietnam, landing at Cam Ranh Bay.
  • 30th July » U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare (United States) called Medicare and Medicaid.
  • 4th August » The Politics of the Cook Islands Constitution e.g Constitution of Cook Islands comes into force, giving the Cook Islands self-governing status within New Zealand.
  • 5th August » The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 begins as Pakistani soldiers cross the Line of Control dressed as locals.
  • 6th August » President of the United States e.g US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into Law of the United States named law.
  • 9th August » Singapore is History of the Republic of Singapore Independence of Singapore named expelled from Malaysia and becomes the only country to date to gain independence unwillingly.
  • 9th August » A fire at a LGM-25C Titan II or Titan missile base near Searcy, Arkansas kills 53 construction workers.
  • 11th August » Race riots (the Watts Riots) begin in the Watts, Los Angeles named Watts area of Los Angeles called Los Angeles, California.
  • 18th August » Vietnam War: Operation Starlite begins United States Marine Corps known as United States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in the first major American ground battle of the war.
  • 19th August » Prime Minister of Japan or Japanese prime minister Eisaku Satō becomes the first post-World War II sitting prime minister to visit Okinawa Prefecture.
  • 29th August » The Gemini V spacecraft returns to Earth, landing in the Atlantic ocean.
  • 31st August » The Aero Spacelines Super Guppy aircraft makes its first flight.
  • 7th September » China announces that it will reinforce its troops on the Indian border.
  • 8th September » Pakistan Navy raids Indian coasts without any resistance in Operation Dwarka, Pakistan celebrates Victory Day annually.
  • 9th September » The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development is established.
  • 9th September » Hurricane Betsy makes its second landfall near New Orleans, leaving 76 dead and $1.42 billion ($10–12 billion in 2005 dollars) in damages, becoming the first hurricane to cause over $1 billion in unadjusted damage.
  • 11th September » Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 or Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Army Battle of Burki or captures the town of Burki, just southeast of Lahore.
  • 21st September » Gambia, Maldives and Singapore are admitted as members of the United Nations.
  • 22nd September » The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 (also known as the Second Kashmir War) between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, ends after the United Nations named UN calls for a ceasefire.
  • 30th September » The Lockheed L-100, the civilian version of the C-130 Hercules, is introduced.
  • 30th September » The 30 September Movement attempts a 'coup' against the Indonesian government, which is crushed by the military under Suharto and leads to Indonesian killings of 1965–66 or a mass anti-communist purge, with over 500,000 people killed.
  • 1st October » General Suharto puts down an apparent coup attempt by the 30 September Movement in Indonesia.
  • 4th October » Pope Paul VI arrives in New York, the first Pope to visit the United States of America and the Western hemisphere.
  • 15th October » 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 October » Comet Ikeya-Seki approaches perihelion, passing 450,000 kilometers (279,617 miles) from the sun.
  • 23rd October » 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 October » Construction on the St. Louis Arch is completed.
  • 30th October » 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.
  • 2nd November » Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old Quaker, sets himself on fire in front of the river entrance to the Pentagon to protest the use of napalm in the Vietnam war.
  • 6th November » Cuba and the United States formally agree to begin an airlift for Cubans who want to go to the United States. By 1971, 250,000 Cubans had made use of this program.
  • 8th November » The British Indian Ocean Territory is created, consisting of Chagos Archipelago, Aldabra, Farquhar Group named Farquhar and Des Roches islands.
  • 8th November » The Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965 is given Royal Assent, formally abolishing the death penalty in the United Kingdom.
  • 8th November » The 173rd Airborne is ambushed by over 1,200 Viet Cong in Operation Hump during the Vietnam War, while the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment fight one of the first set-piece engagements of the war between Australian forces and the Viet Cong at the
  • 9th November » Several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of Power outage named blackouts lasting up to 13 hours in the Northeast Blackout of 1965.
  • 9th November » The Catholic Worker Movement member Roger Allen LaPorte, protesting against the Vietnam War, Self-immolation e.g sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building.
  • 11th November » In Rhodesia (modern-day Zimbabwe), the white-minority government of Ian Smith Unilateral Declaration of Independence (Rhodesia) or unilaterally declares independence.
  • 13th November » The SS or Yarmouth Castle burns and sinks 60 miles off Nassau, Bahamas e.g Nassau with the loss of 90 lives.
  • 14th November » Vietnam War: The Battle of Ia Drang begins the first major engagement between regular American and North Vietnamese forces.
  • 16th November » Venera program: The Soviet Union launches the 'Venera 3' space probe toward Venus, which will be the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet.
  • 24th November » Mobutu Sese Seko Joseph-Désiré Mobutu seizes power in the Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville) Democratic Republic of the Congo and becomes Heads of state of the Democratic Republic of the Congo President; he rules the country (which he renames Zaire in 1
  • 26th November » In the Hammaguir launch facility in the Sahara Desert, France launches a Diamant named Diamant-A rocket with its first satellite, 'Asterix-1', on board.
  • 27th November » Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells President of the United States named U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned operations are to succeed, the number of United States or American troops in Vietnam has to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000.
  • 29th November » The Canadian Space Agency launches the satellite Alouette 2.
  • 7th December » Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople e.g Patriarch Athenagoras I Catholic–Orthodox Joint Declaration of 1965 known as simultaneously revoke mutual excommunications that had been in place since 1054.
  • 9th December » Kecksburg UFO incident: A fireball is seen from Michigan to Pennsylvania; witnesses report something crashing in the woods near Pittsburgh. In 2005 NASA admits that Kecksburg UFO incident 2005: NASA changes story to "Russian satellite" known as it examine
  • 9th December » A Charlie Brown Christmas, first in a series of Peanuts television specials, debuts on CBS.
  • 15th December » Project Gemini: 'Gemini 6A', crewed by Wally Schirra and Thomas P. Stafford or Thomas Stafford, is launched from Cape Canaveral e.g Cape Kennedy, Florida. Four orbits later, it achieves the first space rendezvous, with 'Gemini 7'.
  • 22nd December » In the United Kingdom, a 70 mph speed limit is applied to all rural roads including Controlled-access highway known as motorways for the first time. Previously, there had been no speed limit.
  • 30th December » Ferdinand Marcos becomes President of the Philippines called President of the Philippines.