What Happened in 1965

Significant Events

  • Jan 30 State funeral of Winston Churchill at St Paul's Cathedral in London. Then world's largest ever state funeral.
  • Mar 18 Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.
  • Mar 22 US confirms its troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong
  • May 5 First large-scale US Army ground units arrive in South Vietnam
  • Jun 7 The Supreme Court of the United States decides on Griswold v. Connecticut, effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples
  • Aug 6 US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act prohibiting voting discrimination against minorities
  • Aug 9 Singapore separates from the Federation of Malaysia and gains its independence
  • Sep 22 India and Pakistan ceases-fire goes into effect, ending Indo-Pakistani War
  • Nov 27 1st French satellite launched; France becomes 3rd nation in space
  • Dec 7 Pope Paul VI & Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously lift mutual excommunications that led to split of 2 churches in 1054
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1965 in Film & TV

1965 in Music

  • Feb 6 Righteous Brothers "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" hits #1
  • Mar 2 One of the most popular musical films of all time, "The Sound of Music", starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, is released (Academy Awards Best Picture 1966)
  • Apr 26 Charles Ives' 4th Symphony premieres at Carnegie Hall, New York, 11 years after the composer's death
  • Apr 28 Barbra Streisand stars on "My Name is Barbra" special on CBS
  • Jun 15 Bob Dylan records single "Like a Rolling Stone" (#1 in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time")

1965 in Sport

  • Sep 2 Cubs slugger Ernie Banks hits his MLB 400th career HR (off Curt Simmons) in Chicago's 5-3 win v St. Louis at Wrigley Field; Simmons also gave up Willie Mays' 400th HR in 1963
  • Sep 18 Mickey Mantle Day at Yankee Stadium: Mantle play his 2,000th game

Did You Know?

"Vinland Map" is introduced by Yale University as being the first known map of America, drawn about 1440

On October 10, 1965


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Would You Believe?

The wreck of the SS Georgiana, valued at over $50,000,000, said to have been most powerful Confederate cruiser, discovered by then teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence exactly 102 years after its destruction.

On March 19, 1965

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