Historical Events That Occurred in the Year 1965

• The New York Jets sign University of Alabama quarterback Joe Namath for a reported $400,000.
• United States President Lyndon B. Johnson proclaims his "Great Society" during his State of the Union address.
• Lyndon B. Johnson is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States.
• Hindi becomes the official language of India.
• Churchill River, Newfoundland - Hamilton River in Labrador renamed Churchill River in honour of Winston Churchill.
• Vietnam War: The first United States combat troops are sent to South Vietnam.
• A new red-and-white maple leaf design is adopted as the flag of Canada, replacing the old Canadian Red Ensign banner.
• The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
• Ranger 8 crashes into the moon after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program astronauts.
• Malcolm X is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City by members of the Nation of Islam.
• In Selma, Alabama, State troopers and local law enforcement forcefully break up a group of 600 civil rights marchers. The event was televised and was dubbed Bloody Sunday.
• Vietnam War: 3,500 United States Marines arrive in South Vietnam, becoming the first American combat troops in Vietnam.
• Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.
• In Naples, Italy, France Gall wins the tenth Eurovision Song Contest for Luxembourg singing "Poupée de cire, poupée de son"
• Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9 which is the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes.
• Martin Luther King Jr leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
• Bob Dylan "goes electric," releasing his first album featuring electric instruments, Bringing It All Back Home.
• NASA launches Gemini 3
• Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King, Jr. successfully complete their 4-day 50-mile march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery.
• Vietnam War: A car bomb explodes in front of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others.
• Early Bird, the first communications satellite to be placed in synchronous orbit, is launched.
• The Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states killing 256 people.
• The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair opens for its second and final season.
• Civil war breaks out in the Dominican Republic when civilians lead by some members of the armed forces, including Colonel Francisco Caamaño, overthrow the triumvirate that was in power since the coup d'état on Juan Bosch, who was legally elected president
• United States troops land in the Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship" and to evacuate U.S. citizens.
• Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission
• The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes on the Moon.
• Campbell Soup Company introduces SpaghettiO's under its Franco-American brand.
• A Pakistani Airlines Boeing 720-B crashes on landing at Cairo airport, killing 121 people.
• Muhammad Ali knocks out Sonny Liston in the first minute of the first round of a boxing match.
• Vietnam War: United States warships begin bombardments of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam for the first time.
• Vietnam War: The first contingent of Australian combat troops arrives in South Vietnam.
• Launch of Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission by an NASA crew.
• For 21 minutes, Edward H. White floats free outside the space vehicle Gemini IV for the first time.
• Edward H. White walks in space
• The US Supreme Court decides Griswold v. Connecticut effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples.
• Vietnam War: Battle of Dong Xoai begins.
• Vietnam War: The United States uses B-52 bombers to attack National Liberation Front guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam
• Folk rock band The Byrds release their highly influential debut album Mr. Tambourine Man.
• Mariner 4 flyby of Mars takes the first close-up photos of another planet.
• The Mont Blanc Tunnel linking France with Italy opens.
• Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Abe Fortas to the Supreme Court.
• Columbia Records releases Bob Dylan's groundbreaking single "Like a Rolling Stone" to radio stations.
• In Hayneville, Alabama, two civil rights protesters, one a priest and the other a seminarian, are shot by a deputy sheriff. The seminarian dies of his wounds.
• Elias Tsirimokos becomes prime minister of Greece.
• Turkish prime minister Suat Hayri Urguplu returns from a visit to Moscow and announces the Soviet Union will provide aid to his country.
• Vietnam War: Four F-4C Phantoms escorting a bombing raid at Kang Chi are the targets of antiaircraft missiles in the first such attack against American planes in the war. One is shot down and the other three sustain damage.
• Newport Folk Festival: Bob Dylan goes electric.
• Vietnam War: US President Lyndon B. Johnson announces his order to increase the number of United States troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000.
• Vietnam War: The first 4,000 101st Airborne Division paratroopers arrive in Vietnam, landing at Cam Ranh Bay.
• US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.
• Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands announces her engagement to Claus von Amsberg.
• US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into United States law.
• Singapore is expelled and separated from the Federation of Malaysia.
• Space disasters: A fire at a Titan missile base near Little Rock, Arkansas kills 53 construction workers.
• Singapore seceded from the newly-formed Federation of Malaysia.
• Space disasters: A fire at a Titan missile base near Little Rock, Arkansas kills 53 construction workers.
• Singapore seceded from the newly-formed Federation of Malaysia.
• Race riots
• Race riots
• Birthday of two cars
• John Coltrane plays in Chicago, Illinois for the Downbeat Jazz Festival with Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner.
• John Coltrane plays in Chicago, Illinois for the Downbeat Jazz Festival with Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner.
• 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.
• 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.
• Japanese prime minister Eisaku Sato becomes the first post-World War II sitting prime minister to visit Okinawa.
• Japanese prime minister Eisaku Sato becomes the first post-World War II sitting prime minister to visit Okinawa.
• Rock musician Bob Dylan releases his influential album Highway 61 Revisited featuring the song "Like a Rolling Stone."
• The Aero Spacelines Super Guppy Aircraft makes its first flight.
• War of 1965: India attacks Pakistan and announces that its forces will capture Lahore
• China announces that it will reinforce its troops in the Indian border.
• Vietnam War: In a follow-up to August's Operation Starlight, United States Marines and South Vietnamese forces initiate Operation Pirahna on the Batangan Peninsula.
• The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development is established.
• Baseball: Willie Mays becomes the fifth member of the 500 home run club with a home run at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas.
• Baseball: Willie Mays becomes the fifth member of the 500 home run club with a home run at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas.
• The opening of the fourth and final period of Second Vatican Council.
• The opening of the fourth and final period of Second Vatican Council.
• The television series Lost in Space premieres.
• The television series Lost in Space premieres.
• Mickey Mantle plays in his 2000th game.
• The first episode of "I Dream of Jeannie" shown on NBC.
• Mickey Mantle plays in his 2000th game.
• The first episode of "I Dream of Jeannie" shown on NBC.
• The war between India and Pakistan over Kashmir ends after the UN calls for a cease-fire.
• The war between India and Pakistan over Kashmir ends after the UN calls for a cease-fire.
• The NSA memorial lists ten agents lost on this date.
• The NSA memorial lists ten agents lost on this date.
• Apostasia, a political move in Greece designed by the former King of Greece Constantine II and executed by a group of politicians
• General Suharto crushes an attempted coup in Indonesia.
• Vietnam War: The National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam stages the first public burning of a draft card in the United States.
• Vietnam War: Operation Silver Bayonet - The U.S. 1st Cavalry Division
• The Beatles are appointed Members of the Order of the British Empire
• The body of Sylvia Likens is found in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
• French foreign minister Couve de Murville travels to Moscow.
• Nostra Aetate, the "Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions" of the Second Vatican Council, is promulgated by Pope Paul VI; it absolves the Jews of the alleged killing of Jesus, reversing Innocent III's declaration from 760
• St. Louis Arch completed
• 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. Among the dead, a sketch of Marine positions was found on the body of a 13-year-old Vietnamese boy who sold
• At 5:15 P.M., Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old Quaker, set himself on fire in front of the river entrance to the Pentagon to protest the use of napalm in the Vietnam war.
• State of Emergency declared in Rhodesia after collapse of negotiations with Great Britain over Rhodesian independence
• Freedom Flights begin: Cuba and the United States formally agree to start an airlift for Cubans who want to go to the United States. By 1971, 250,000 Cubans will take advantage of this program.
• The British Indian Ocean Territory is created, consisting of Chagos Archipelago, Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches islands.
• The soap opera Days of Our Lives debuts on NBC in the United States.
• The Northeast Blackout of 1965.
• Catholic Worker member Roger Allen LaPorte, protesting against the Vietnam War, sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building.
• Rhodesia
• The SS Yarmouth Castle burns and sinks 60 miles off Nassau with the loss of 90 lives.
• Vietnam War: Battle of the Ia Drang begins - the first major engagement between regular American and North Vietnamese forces.
• Venera program: The Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe toward Venus, the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet.
• Joseph Désiré Mobutu seizes power in the Congo and becomes President; he goes on to rule the country
• In the Hammaguira launch facility in the Sahara Desert, France launches a Diamant-A rocket with its first satellite, Asterix-1 on board, becoming the third country to enter space.
• Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned operations were to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam has to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000.
• Vietnam War: In response to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's call for "more flags" in Vietnam, Philippines President Elect Ferdinand Marcos announces he will send troops to help fight in South Vietnam.
• Canadian satellite Alouette 2 is launched.
• The Border Security Force is formed in India as a special force to guard the borders.
• Pakistan's Islamic Ideology Advisory Committee recommended that Islamic Studies be made a compulsory subject for Muslim students from primary to graduation level.
• Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras simultaneously lift mutual excommunications that had been in place since 1054.
• Kecksburg UFO incident
• The Grateful Dead play their first concert, at the Fillmore in San Francisco.
• Gemini program: Gemini 6A, crewed by Wally Schirra and Thomas Stafford, is launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida. Also the release of The Sound of Music.
• Prison guard George Hodson is killed during Ronald Ryan and Peter Walker's escape from HM Prison Pentridge in Coburg, Victoria.
• In the United Kingdom, a 70mph speed limit is applied to all rural roads including motorways for the first time. Previously, there had been no speed limit.
• Ferdinand Marcos becomes President of the Philippines.

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• Shirley Jackson, American author
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• Jean B. Fletcher, American architect
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• J.W. Hearne English cricketer
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• Steve Brown, American musician
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• James Fitzmaurice, Irish aviation pioneer
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• Clara Bow, American actress
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• Kevin Farley, American actor
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• Craig Morgan, American singer
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• Peter Krause, American actor
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• Emmanuelle Béart, French actress
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• Rob Thomas, author and screenwriter
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• Koji Kikkawa, Japanese singer
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• Kyra Sedgwick, American actress
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• KRS-One, American rapper
• Marlee Matlin, American actress
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• John Norwood Fisher, American musician
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• Zak Starkey, British drummer
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• Katy Kurtzman, American actress, director and producer
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• Bryan Singer, American director
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• Alexandra Vandernoot, Belgian actress
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• Robert Rusler, American actor
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• Cheryl Hines, American actress
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• Andy Cairns, Irish musician
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• Scottie Pippen, American basketball player
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• Steve Kerr, Lebanese-born basketball player
• Peter MacKay, Canadian political leader
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• Jan-Ove Waldner, Swedish table tennis player
• Mario Lemieux, Canadian hockey player
• Patrick Roy, Canadian hockey player
• Chris Penn, American actor
• Sean Patrick Flanery, American actor
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• William Zabka, American actor
• John Wesley Harding, American musician
• Otis Smith, American football player
• Al Leiter, baseball player
• Aaron Kwok Fu-Shing, Hong Kong singer and actor
• Annabella Lwin, British singer
• Shahrukh Khan, Indian actor
• Wayne Static, American singer and guitarist
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• Bryn Terfel, Welsh baritone
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• Nigel Bond, English snooker player
• Rob Kokarinen, Finnish Opera and Rock Singer, most notorious for being the lead singer of Plus Ultra
• Laurent Blanc, French footballer
• Mike D, American musician
• Yoshiki Hayashi, Japanese musician
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• Jennifer Michael Hecht, American poet and historian
• Cris Carter, American football player
• Bernie Kosar, American football player
• Erwin Mortier, Belgian author
• Matt Williams, baseball player
• Ellen Cleghorne, American comedian
• Ben Stiller, American actor and writer
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• Steve Harris, American actor
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• Tommy Davidson, American actor
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• Andy Dick, American actor and comedian
• Anke Engelke, German comedienne
• Salman Khan, Indian actor
• Dexter Holland, American singer and guitarist
• Darrin C. Huss, Canadian musician and singer
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