1965

Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s - 1960s - 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s

Years: 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 - 1965 - 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970

• January 4 - United States President Lyndon Johnson proclaims his "Great Society" during his State of the Union address[?].
• January 26 - Hindi becomes the official language of India.
• February 9 - Vietnam War: The first United States combat troops are sent to South Vietnam
• February 15 - A new red and white maple leaf design is adopted as the flag of Canada replacing the old Red Ensign standard.
• February 18 - The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom
• February 20 - Ranger 8[?] crashes into the moon after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program astronauts.
• February 21 - Malcolm X is assassinated at his mosque in New York City by Black Muslims.
• March 7 - Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama
• March 8 - Vietnam War: 3,500 United States Marines arrive in South Vietnam becoming the first American combat troops in Vietnam.
• March 18 - cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov becomes the first person to walk in space from spacecraft Voskhod 2
• March 21 - Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9[?] which is the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes.
• March 23 - NASA launches Gemini 3 which is the United States' first two-person space flight took (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young).
• March 25 - Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King, Jr. begin march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery.
• April 28 - Vietnam War: Australian Prime Minister 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.
• August 9 - Singapore becomes an independent nation.
• September 14 - Opening of fourth and final period of Second Vatican Council
• December 8 - Closing of Second Vatican Council
• December 30 - Ferdinand Marcos becomes President of the Philippines[?]

• TAT-4 cable goes into operation.
• Riots in Watts[?], a neighbourhood of Los Angeles, California.
• Mont Blanc tunnel between France and Italy completed.
• Medicaid is founded in the United States

Art, Culture & Fashion

• 1965 in film
  • The Sound of Music
  • Doctor Zhivago
  • The Greatest Story Ever Told[?] starring José Ferrer, Charlton Heston, Martin Landau, John Wayne, Angela Lansbury, Roddy McDowall, Shelley Winters, Pat Boone and others
  • Help!, starring The Beatles
• 1965 in literature
• 1965 in music
  • February 11 - Beatle Ringo Starr marries Maureen Cox.
  • August - Paul Simon releases UK-only LP The Paul Simon Song Book.
  • 1965 is the title of an Afghan Whigs album released in 1998.
• 1965 in sports
• 1965 in television
  • March 24 - Live TV pictures from U.S. unmanned moon probe "Ranger 9" transmitted prior to impact.
  • Sony introduces the Betamax, a home video tape recorder
  • Nearly all of NBC's programs are now broadcast in color.

Births

• January 15 - Adam Jones, musician of Tool
• January 27 - Alan Cumming, actor
• February 1 - Brandon Lee, actor (+ 1993)
• February 1 - Sherilyn Fenn[?], actress
• February 1 - Princess Stephanie of Monaco
• February 11 - Angie Ridgeway[?], golfer
• February 11 - Stephen Gregory, actor
• February 18 - Dr. Dre, rap music performer, music producer
• March 25 - Sarah Jessica Parker, actress
• April 4 - Robert Downey Jr., actor
• May 9 - Steve Yzerman, ice hockey player
• May 15 - Lizi Rodriguez[?], psychologist and media psychotherapist
• May 17 - Trent Reznor, musician
• May 28 - Chris Ballew, musician
• May 31 - Brooke Shields, actress
• June 1 - Nigel Short, chess player
• June 10 - Elizabeth Hurley[?], actress
• July 31 - Joanne Kathleen Rowling, author
• August 14 - Emmanuelle Beart, Cesar Award winning actress
• August 28 - Shania Twain, musician
• September 9 - Adam Sandler American actor, comedian
• November 20 - Ben Stiller, actor
• December 3 - Katarina Witt, figure skater

Deaths

• January 4 - T. S. Eliot, American/British poet
• January 12 - Lorraine Hansberry[?], writer
• January 14 - Jeanette MacDonald[?], actress, singer
• January 20 - Alan Freed, disk jockey
• January 24 - Winston Churchill, British politician
• January 28 - Maxime Weygand, soldier
• February 15 - Nat King Cole, singer, musician
• February 21 - Malcolm X, writer, political activist
• February 22 - Felix Frankfurter[?], justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
• February 23 -Stan Laurel, British actor.
• March 6 - Margaret Dumont[?], actress
• March 13 - Corrado Gini, statistician
• March 17 - Amos Alonzo Stagg[?], baseball, basketball and American football coach and player
• March 18 - King Farouk I of Egypt
• May 25 - Sonny Boy Williamson[?]
• August 27 - Le Corbusier, Swiss architect

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Julian Schwinger[?], Richard P. Feynman
• Chemistry - Robert Burns Woodward
• Medicine - François Jacob, André Lwoff[?], Jacques Monod[?]
• Literature - Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov
• Peace - United Nation's Children's Fund (UNICEF)

Books

• On Escalation by Herman Kahn coins the term escalation, a word closesly associated with the Cold War.