Historical Events in 1965 (Part 3)

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• Aug 15 Beatles play to 55,000 at Shea Stadium
• Aug 15 Japanese community of San Francisco holds Masanori Murakami Day at Candlestick Park to honor 1st Japanese player to play in major leagues
• Aug 16 AFL awards its 1st expansion franchise (Miami Dolphins)

• Aug 18 Orioles' Brooks Robinson hits into his third career triple play (tying George Sisler, Deacon McGuire and Joe Start)
• Aug 18 Dutch soccer team FC Den Bosch (successor to BVV 1906 and Wilhelmina 1890) is established at 's-Hertogenbosch
• Aug 19 Auschwitz trials end with 6 life sentences
• Aug 19 Cincinnati Reds pitcher Jim Maloney throws his second no-hitter of the season in 1-0 win over the Chicago Cubs
• Aug 19 The Yardbirds launch their first US tour
• Aug 20 Rolling Stones release their single "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" (their 1st #1 US hit) in the UK
• Aug 20 Eddie Mathews and Hank Aaron (1954-65) pass Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig hitting 772 HRs while playing together on the same team
• Aug 21 Gemini 5 launched into Earth orbit (2 astronauts)
• Aug 21 Romania adopts constitution
• Aug 21 The Crusher beats Mad Dog Vachon in St Paul, to become NWA champ


• Aug 22 San Francisco Giants pitcher Juan Marachal hits LA Dodger catcher John Roseboro on the head with his bat causing a 14 minute brawl
• Aug 24 26th Venice Film Festival: "Sandra" directed by Luchino Visconti wins Golden Lion
• Aug 27 The Beatles spend an evening with Elvis Presley
• Aug 27 WTVI TV channel 42 in Charlotte, North Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting

• Aug 28 1st Subway sandwich shop opens in Bridgeport, Connecticut
• Aug 29 Astronauts Cooper & Conrad complete 120 Earth orbits in Gemini 5

• Aug 30 Section of Allalin glacier wipes out construction site at Mattmark Dam near Saas-Fee, Switzerland
• Aug 31 US Congress establishes Department of Housing & Urban Development
• Aug 31 The Aero Spacelines Super Guppy Aircraft makes its first flight.
• Sep 1 Indo-Pakistani conflict - Pakistani counter-attack (Operation Grand Slam,)

• Sep 2 Treblinka trial in Dusseldorf ends
• Sep 3 Garcia Godoy forms government in Dominican Republic

• Sep 3 Preparing a move to Anaheim, the Los Angeles Angels change their name to the California Angels
• Sep 4 Beatles' single "Help!" goes #1 & stays #1 for 3 weeks
• Sep 4 KREZ TV channel 6 in Durango, CO (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting


• Sep 4 Rock group Who's van is vandalized with $10,000 in equipment stolen
• Sep 6 India invades West Pakistan, beginning the Indo-Pakistani War
• Sep 6 KLNE TV channel 3 in Lexington, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
• Sep 7 -10] Hurricane Betsy, kills 74 in Florida, Mississippi & Louisiana
• Sep 7 China announces that it will reinforce its troops in the Indian border.
• Sep 8 Hurricane Betsy kills 75 in Louisiana & Florida
• Sep 8 Kansas City A's Bert Campaneris plays all 9 positions in a game

• Sep 9 Tibet is made an autonomous region of China
• Sep 10 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Sep 10 Phillies 10,000th game to a decision since 1900, Phils beat Cards
• Sep 10 WUND TV channel 2 in Columbia, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting
• Sep 11 Beatles' "Help!," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks
• Sep 11 Braves 2nd straight one-hitter against the Mets
• Sep 11 The 1st Cavalry Division of the United States Army arrives in Vietnam.
• Sep 12 Hurricane Betsy strikes Florida & Louisiana kills 75
• Sep 12 WCEE TV channel 23 in Rockford, IL (CBS) begins broadcasting

• Sep 12 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Spaniard Manuel Santana beats Cliff Drysdale of South Africa 6-2, 7-9, 7-5, 6-1 for his lone US singles crown
• Sep 12 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Australian Margaret Smith wins her second of 5 US singles titles; beats American rival Billie Jean Moffitt 8-6, 7-5
• Sep 13 Beatles release "Yesterday"
• Sep 13 Beatles win 1st Grammy, for Best Group of 1964
• Sep 13 Today Show's 1st totally color broadcast
• Sep 13 Willie Mays's 500th HR (off Don Nottebart), Giants 11th straight win
• Sep 14 Western sitcom "F-Troop" premieres in the US on ABC
• Sep 14 4th meeting of 2nd Vatican council opened
• Sep 15 "Lost in Space" premieres
• Sep 16 Boston Red Sox Dave Morehead no-hits Cleveland Indians, 2-0
• Sep 16 Sobibor trial opens in Hagen, West Germany
• Sep 17 WPHL TV channel 17 in Philadelphia, PA (IND) begins broadcasting
• Sep 17 CBS premiere of WWII sitcom "Hogan's Heroes"

• Sep 19 Erhards CDU wins West German parliament elections
• Sep 20 WXXW (now WYCC) TV channel 20 in Chicago, IL (PBS) begins broadcasting
• Sep 21 O Kommissarova (USSR) sets women's longest parachute jump (46,250')
• Sep 21 Singapore admitted as part of the United Nations.
• Sep 22 India and Pakistan cease-fire goes into effect, ending the Indo-Pakistani War
• Sep 24 Belgium Victor Leemans elected chairman of European Parliament
• Sep 24 Saudi Arabian & Egyptian accord over Yemen
• Sep 24 Stefan Stefanopoulos forms Greek government
• Sep 25 "Do I Hear a Waltz?" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 220 performances
• Sep 25 60 year old Satchel Paige of KC A's pitches 3 scoreless innings
• Sep 25 Beatle cartoon show begins in US
• Sep 25 Children find trunk with corpse in Amsterdam canal
• Sep 26 LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Stardust CC: Sandra Haynie wins by 1 stroke from Clifford Ann Creed
• Sep 26 Minnesota gains its 1st AL pennant by defeating Washington, 2-1
• Sep 26 Queen Elizabeth decorates the Beatles with Order of the British Empire
• Sep 28 Jack McKay in X-15 reaches 90 km
• Sep 28 Taal Volcano explodes on Luzon Philippines killing around 100
• Sep 29 Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 27' 4 3/4"
• Sep 29 St L Cards Charlie Johnson passes for 6 touchdowns vs Cleve (49-13)


• Sep 29 WLVT TV channel 39 in Allentown, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting
• Sep 29 Phillies catcher Pat Corrales sets record by reaching base twice on catcher's interference in one game & 6 times in one season

• Sep 30 LA Dodger Don Drysdale (23-12) wins 13th straight game, 7 by shutouts
• Oct 1 Failed coup under lt col Untung in Indonesia
• Oct 1 France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
• Oct 2 Mel Stottlemyre wins game #20
• Oct 2 Pope Paul VI named MR Perey bishop's helper of New Orleans
• Oct 3 Cubs lose season finale 6-3 to Pirates; Ernie Banks-Don Kessinger combine to tie MLB record of 3 triple plays in a season

• Oct 3 Dual Melbourne Cup winning Australian jockey Pat Glennon rides French colt Sea Bird to victory in the Prix de l'Arc De Triomphe to claim an impressive double after the thoroughbred's English Derby win
• Oct 4 "Pickwick" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 56 performances
• Oct 4 Pope Paul VI becomes 1st Pope to visit Western Hemisphere (UN)
• Oct 4 USSR launches Luna 7; crash lands on Moon
• Oct 5 Chuck Linster performs 6,006 consecutive push-ups
• Oct 5 Dick McInnes from Henderson, Kentucky stays aloft almost 12 hours in a kite pulled by a speedboat along the Ohio River

• Oct 6 William Goodhart's "Generation" premieres in NYC
• Oct 7 Charles Linster does 6,006 consecutive push-ups
• Oct 7 50 mph gust helps Robert Mitera ace 447-yd 10th hole at Miracle Hills, Omaha, Nebr to score world's longest straight hole-in-one
• Oct 8 Muslims in Jakarta set fire to PKI headquarters
• Oct 8 Post Office Tower opens in London, tallest building in England
• Oct 8 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

• Oct 9 Beatles' "Yesterday" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 4 weeks
• Oct 10 "Drat! - The Cat!" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 8 performances
• Oct 10 The Supremes appear on the "The Ed Sullivan Show"
• Oct 10 "Vinland Map" is introduced by Yale University as being the first known map of America, drawn about 1440
• Oct 14 Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 80 km
• Oct 14 Sandy Koufax hurls his 2nd shutout of World Series beating Twins 2-0


• Oct 15 Dodgers & Sandy Koufax win 7th game of 62nd World Series vs Twins
• Oct 15 WEMT (now WVII) TV channel 7 in Bangor, ME (ABC) begins broadcasting
• Oct 16 "Drat! - The Cat!" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 8 performances
• Oct 17 "On A Clear Day You Can See Forever" opens in NYC for 280 performances
• Oct 17 WBMG TV channel 42 in Birmingham, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting

• Oct 20 Beatles receive a gold record for "Yesterday"
• Oct 20 Mass arrests of communists in Indonesia
• Oct 21 KTWU TV channel 11 in Topeka, KS (PBS) begins broadcasting
• Oct 21 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Robert B Woodward
• Oct 21 Vivian Beaumont Theater (NYC) opens
• Oct 21 Comet Ikeya-Seki approaches perihelion, passing 450,000 kilometers from the sun.

• Oct 24 Jim Clark in a Lotus is forced to retire from season-ending Mexican Grand Prix at Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez with engine trouble; American Richie Ginther is race winner and Clark claims his second F1 World Drivers Championship
• Oct 25 Rolling Stones release "Get Off of My Cloud"
• Oct 26 Beatles receive MBEs at Buckingham Palace
• Oct 26 Sylvia Likens tortured by teen girl gang
• Oct 27 WCFT TV channel 33 in Tuscaloosa, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting
• Oct 28 Gateway Arch (630' (190m) high) completed in St Louis, Missouri
• Oct 28 Pope Paul VI proclaims Jews not collectively guilty for crucifixion
• Oct 29 US performs underground nuclear test at Amchitka Island Aleutians
• Oct 30 Fireworks explosions kill 50 in Cartagena, Colombia
• Nov 1 1st concert at Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco
• Nov 1 Ernie Terrell retains WBA heavyweight boxing title; beats Canadian George Chuvalo in 15 round points decision in Toronto
• Nov 1 Trackless trolley plunged into Nile River drowning 74 (Cairo Egypt)
• Nov 2 Craig Breedlove driving FIA-legal four-wheeler, Sonic I, breaks land speed record with a two-run average of 555.483 mph (893.963 km/h) at the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah
• Nov 3 Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax is named Cy Young Award winner by a unanimous vote and for a third time; posts 26-8 record, 1.73 ERA and record-shattering 382 strikeouts
• Nov 4 Lee Breedlove sets female land speed record (308.56 MPH) in Utah

• Nov 8 "Days of Our Lives" premieres on TV


• Nov 8 British Indian Ocean Territory formed
• Nov 8 Vietnam War: US, Australian and New Zealand forces launch Operation Hump, a search-and-destroy operation near Bien Hoa in South Vietnam
• Nov 9 1st NY Knick game postponed (black-out) vs St Louis
• Nov 9 Hurricane hits north east US/Canada
• Nov 9 Willie Mays named NL MVP
• Nov 9 Several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours in the Northeast Blackout of 1965.
• Nov 10 Manneke Pis statue stolen in Brussels
• Nov 11 Rhodesian PM Ian Smith proclaims independence from Britain
• Nov 11 William Alfred's "Hogan's Goat" premieres in NYC

• Nov 12 General strike in Morocco against disappearance of Ben Barka
• Nov 12 Mad Dog Vachon beats Crusher in Denver, to become NWA champ
• Nov 12 Venera 2 launched by Soviet Union toward Venus
• Nov 13 "Skyscraper" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 248 performances
• Nov 13 "Yarmouth Castle" burns and sinks off Bahamas, killing 89
• Nov 13 Director Kenneth Tynan says the word "F*ck" on BBC
• Nov 14 "Baker Street" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 313 performances
• Nov 14 George Abbott Theater (Adelphi, 54 St) at 152 W 54th NYC, demolished
• Nov 14 KCST TV channel 39 in San Diego, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting
• Nov 14 US government sends 90,000 soldiers to Vietnam
• Nov 15 Craig Breedlove sets land speed record (600.601 mph-966.57 kph)
• Nov 16 Venera 3 launched, 1st to land on another planet (crashes into Venus)
• Nov 16 Walt Disney launches Epcot Center: Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow
• Nov 17 General Meeting of UN refuses admittance of People's Republic of China
• Nov 17 William Eckert is unanimously elected commissioner of baseball
• Nov 17 The NVA ambushes American troops of the 7th Cavalry at Landing Zone Albany in the la Drang Valley, almost wiping them out
• Nov 18 Twins SS Zoilo Versalles is named AL MVP
• Nov 19 ABC radio begins weekly "Vietnam Update" report
• Nov 19 Kellogg's Pop Tarts pastries created
• Nov 20 "Pickwick" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 56 performances


• Nov 20 UN Security council calls for boycott of Rhodesia
• Nov 20 WCNY TV channel 24 in Syracuse, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
• Nov 21 1st freighter arrives in Ashdod Port, Israel
• Nov 21 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk, USSR
• Nov 22 "Man of La Mancha" opens at ANTA Wash Sq Theater NYC for 2329 performances

• Nov 23 31st Heisman Trophy Award: Mike Garrett, Southern Cal (RB)
• Nov 23 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

• Nov 25 Congo military coup under Gen Mobutu, President Kasavubu overthrown
• Nov 26 Dodgers 2nd baseman Jim Lefebvre is voted NL Rookie of Year

• Nov 27 15-25,000 demonstrate against war in Vietnam in Washington, D.C.
• Nov 27 CFL Grey Cup, CNE Stadium, Toronto: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeat Winn Blue Bombers, 22-16; strong winds meant all scoring occurred by the team going with the wind
• Nov 27 1966 NFL Draft: Tommy Nobis from University of Texas first pick by Atlanta Falcons
• Nov 27 30th Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 30-3 in Birmingham
• Nov 28 Browns' Leroy Kelly sets club record for most punt return yds (109)
• Nov 28 LPGA Titleholders Championship Women's Golf, Augusta CC: Kathy Whitworth wins by 10 shots from Peggy Wilson for her first major title

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