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1965 (MCMLXV common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar).
Contents
1 Events
1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March 1.4 April 1.5 May 1.6 June 1.7 July 1.8 August 1.9 September 1.10 October 1.11 November 1.12 December 1.13 Unknown dates
2 Births
2.1 January-February 2.2 March-April 2.3 May-June 2.4 July-August 2.5 September-October 2.6 November-December 2.7 Unknown dates
3 Deaths
3.1 January 3.2 February 3.3 March 3.4 April 3.5 May 3.6 June 3.7 July 3.8 August 3.9 September 3.10 October 3.11 November 3.12 December
4 Nobel prizes 5 Ship events 6 World population
Events January February March March 7 - Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama : Some 200 Alabama State Troopers attack 525 civil rights demonstrators.
March 8 - Vietnam War : 3,500 United States Marines arrive in South Vietnam , becoming the first American combat troops in Vietnam .
March 9 - The second attempt to march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama , under the leadership of Martin Luther King, Jr. , stops at the bridge that was the site of Bloody Sunday, to hold a prayer service and return to Selma, in obedience to a court restraining order . White supremacists beat up white Unitarian Universalist minister James J. Reeb later that day in Selma.
March 10 - Goldie , a London Zoo golden eagle , is recaptured after 13 days of freedom.
March 11 - White Unitarian Universalist minister James J. Reeb , beaten by White supremacists in Selma, Alabama on March 9 following the second march from Selma, dies in a hospital in Birmingham, Alabama .
March 16 - Police attack 600 SNCC marchers in Montgomery, Alabama .
March 17 - In Montgomery, Alabama , 1,600 civil rights marchers demonstrate at the Courthouse.
March 17 - In response to the events of March 7 and 9 in Selma, Alabama, President Johnson sends a bill to Congress that forms the basis for the Voting Rights Act of 1965. It will be passed by the Senate May 26, the House July 10, and signed into law by President Johnson Aug. 6.
March 18 - Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov , leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 March 18 - A U.S. federal judge rules that SCLC has the lawful right to march to Montgomery, Alabama to petition for 'redress of grievances'.
March 20 - Poupée de cire, poupée de son by France Gall (music and text by Serge Gainsbourg ) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1965 for Luxembourg .
March 21 - Ranger program : NASA launches Ranger 9 , which is the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes .
March 21 - Martin Luther King, Jr. leads 3,200 Civil rights activists in the third march from Selma, Alabama to the capitol in Montgomery.
March 23 - Gemini 3 NASA launches the United States ' first 2-person crew (Gus Grissom , John Young ) into Earth orbit .
March 24 -March 25 - Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) organizes the first teach-in against the Vietnam War, with 2,500 participants, at the University of Michigan .
March 25 - Martin Luther King, Jr. and 25,000 civil rights activists successfully end the 4-day march from Selma, Alabama, to the capitol in Montgomery. Four Klansmen shoot and kill Detroit homemaker Viola Liuzzo as she drives marchers back to Selma at night after the march.
April April 6 - The Early Bird communications satellite is launched. It becomes operational May 2 and is placed in commercial service in June.
April 9 - The West German parliament extends the statute of limitations on Nazi war crimes .
April 9 - In Houston, Texas , the Harris County Domed Stadium (more commonly known as the Astrodome ) opens.
April 11 - The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965 : An estimated 51 tornadoes (47 confirmed) hit in 6 Midwestern states, killing between 256 to 271 people and injuring some 1,500 more.
April 14 - In Cold Blood Richard Hickock and Perry Smith , convicted of murdering 4 members of the Herbert Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas , are executed by hanging at the Kansas State Penitentiary for Men in Lansing, Kansas .
April 17 - The first SDS march against the Vietnam War draws 25,000 protestors to Washington, DC.
April 21 - The NY World's Fair in Flushing Meadows , NY, reopens.
April 23 - The Pennine Way officially opens.
April 24 - 1965 Yerevan Demonstrations start in Yerevan, demanding recognition of the Armenian Genocide .
April 24 - The bodies of Portuguese opposition politician Humberto Delgado and his secretary Arajaryr Moreira de Campos are found in a forest near Villanueva del Fresno, Spain (they were killed February 12 ).
April 24 - In the Dominican Republic , officers and civilians loyal to deposed President Juan Bosch mutiny against the right-wing junta running the country, setting up a provisional government . Forces loyal to the deposed military-imposed government stage a countercoup the next day, and civil war breaks out, although the new government retains its hold on power.
April 28 - U.S. troops are sent to the Dominican Republic by President Lyndon B. Johnson , "for the stated purpose of protecting U.S. citizens and preventing an alleged Communist takeover of the country", thus thwarting the possibility of "another Cuba ".
April 28 - Vietnam War : Prime Minister of Australia Robert Menzies announces that the country will substantially increase its number of troops in South Vietnam , supposedly at the request of the Saigon government, although it is later revealed that Menzies had asked the leadership in Saigon to send the request at the behest of the Americans.
April 29 - Australia announces that it is sending an infantry battalion to support the South Vietnam government.
May May 1 - Bob (later Sir Robert) Askin replaces Jack Renshaw as Premier of New South Wales . On the same day, the Battle of Dong-Yin occured as a conflict between ROC and PRC.
May 5 - The first draft card burnings take place at the University of California, Berkeley , and a coffin is marched to the Berkeley Draft Board .
May 12 - West Germany and Israel establish diplomatic relations.
May 13 - A West German court of appeals condemns the behavior of ex-defense minister Franz Joseph Strauss during the Spiegel scandal .
May 21 - The largest teach-in to date begins at Berkeley, California , attended by 30,000. The next day, several hundred participants again march to the Draft Board and burn more cards, and Lyndon Johnson in effigy .
May 29 - A mining accident in Dhanbad , India kills 274.
May 31 - Racing driver Jim Clark wins the Indianapolis 500 , and later wins the Formula One world driving championship in the same year.
June June 1 - Explosion in a coal mine in Fukuoka , Japan kills 237.
June 2 - Vietnam War : The first contingent of Australian combat troops arrives in South Vietnam .
June 3 - Gemini 4 Edward Higgins White makes the first U.S. space walk .
June 7 - A mining accident in Kakanji, Bosnia and Herzegovina , results in 128 deaths.
June 10 - Vietnam War : The Battle of Dong Xoai begins - About 1,500 Vietcong mount a mortar attack on Dong Xoai , overrunning its military headquarters and the adjoining militia compound.
June 16 - A planned anti-war protest at The Pentagon becomes a teach-in, with demonstrators distributing 50,000 leaflets in and around the building.
June 19 - Houari Boumédienne 's Revolutionary Council ousts Ahmed Ben Bella , in a bloodless coup in Algeria .
June 20 - Police in Algiers break up demonstrations by people who have taken to the streets chanting slogans in support of deposed President Ben Bella .
June 22 - The Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea is signed in Tokyo .
June 24 - Freddie Mills , former British boxing champion, is found shot in his car in Soho .
July July 14 - U.S. spacecraft Mariner 4 flies by Mars , becoming the first spacecraft to return images from the Red Planet.
July 16 - The Mont Blanc Tunnel is used for the first time.
July 22 - Sir Alec Douglas-Home suddenly resigns as a head of the British Conservative Party .
July 24 - Vietnam War : Four F-4C Phantoms escorting a bombing raid at Kang Chi are targeted by antiaircraft missiles , in the first such attack against American planes in the war. One is shot down and the other 3 sustain damage.
July 25 - Bob Dylan elicits controversy among folk purists by "going electric" at the Newport Folk Festival .
July 27 - Edward Heath becomes Leader of the British Conservative Party .
July 28 - 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, and to double the number of men drafted per month from 17,000 to 35,000.
July 29 - Vietnam War : The first 4,000 101st Airborne Division paratroopers arrive in Vietnam , landing at Cam Ranh Bay .
July 30 - War on Poverty : U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid .
August
