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- Aug 12 Race riot in West Side of Chicago
The Beatles on Ed Sullivan
Aug 14 Beatles tape an appearance for "The Ed Sullivan Show"
- Aug 14 Continental Football League plays 1st games
PGA Championship
Aug 15 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Laurel Valley GC: Dave Marr wins his only major title, beating Billy Casper and Jack Nicklaus by 2 strokes
Music History
Aug 15 Beatles play to their largest crowd of over 55,000 at Shea Stadium, New York City; among those in attending were future wives Barbara Bach and Linda Eastman [1] [2]
- 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 American Football League's 9th franchise is officially awarded to Joe Robbie and television star Danny Thomas; Miami Dolphins start play in AFL's Eastern Division in 1966
Sports History
Aug 18 Hank Aaron loses a HR, because he hit it out of batter's box
Sports History
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, at his Los Angeles, California home
- Aug 27 WTVI TV channel 42 in Charlotte, North Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting
Baseball Record
Aug 29 Willie Mays sets NL record for HRs in a month with his 17th of August
Sports History
Aug 30 Casey Stengel announces his retirement after 55 years in baseball
- 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,)
Sports History
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 3 Preparing a move to Anaheim, the Los Angeles Angels change their name to the California Angels
- Sep 4 The 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 The 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
Sports History
Sep 8 Kansas City A's Bert Campaneris plays all 9 positions in a game
Hey, Hey – We're The Monkees
Sep 8 Small ads in Daily Variety and Hollywood Reporter attract 437 young men interested in forming the world’s first manufactured boy band, "The Monkees" - 3 are chosen with Davey Jones already having been cast
Historic Event
Sep 9 François Mitterrand nominated for French presidency
Baseball Record
Sep 9 LA Dodgers future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Sandy Koufax throws his 4th career no-hitter and first perfect game in a 1-0 win over the Chicago Cubs at Dodger Stadium
- 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
Emmy Awards
Sep 12 17th Emmy Awards: "The Dick Van Dyke Show" & Dick Van Dyke win
- 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
Music Single
Sep 13 Beatles release single "Yesterday" - just Paul, with a strings arranged by George Martin
- 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 US TV series "Lost in Space" premieres
Album Release
Sep 15 Volt/Stax records releases Otis Redding's third studio album "Otis Blue - Otis Redding Sings Soul" in the US, Atlantic releases it in the UK; frequently ranked on top album lists
Music History
Sep 16 British singer Davie Jones changes his stage name to "David Bowie" to avoid confusion with the Monkee of the same name
Television Premiere
Sep 18 TV comedy "Get Smart" created by Mel Brooks and starring Don Adams premieres
Sports History
Sep 18 Mickey Mantle Day at Yankee Stadium: Mantle play his 2,000th game
Television Premiere
Sep 18 TV sitcom "I Dream of Jeannie", starring Barbara Eden as a 2,000-year-old genie, and Larry Hagman as an astronaut who becomes her master, premieres on NBC
- 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
Sports History
Sep 25 60 year old Satchel Paige of Kansas City Athletics 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
TV Show Appearance
Sep 30 Donovan's 1st US TV appearance (Shindig)
Sports History
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
Sports History
Oct 3 Whitey Ford notches win #232 in season ending 11-5 victory v Boston Red Sox; becomes Yankees' winningest pitcher
- 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
Music Single
Oct 6 The Supremes release single "I Hear a Symphony"
- 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, then the tallest building in England
- Oct 8 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Ryder Cup
Oct 9 Ryder Cup, Royal Birkdale GC: US beats Great Britain 19½-12½; Byron Nelson non-playing American captain; Harry Weetman GB skipper
- 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 Baseball World Series: LA Dodgers edge Minnesota Twins, 2-0 in Game 7 at Metropolitan Stadium; Dodgers 3rd title since move to LA; MVP: LA pitcher Sandy Koufax
- 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 Burton Lane and Alan Jay Lerner's musical "On A Clear Day You Can See Forever", starring Barbara Harris and John Cullum, opens at he Mark Hellinger Theatre, NYC; runs for 280 performances
- Oct 17 WBMG TV channel 42 in Birmingham, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting
NHL All-Star Game
Oct 20 19th NHL All-Star Game, Montreal Forum, Montreal, QC: All-Stars beat Montreal Canadiens, 5-2; MVP: Henri Richard, Montreal, C
- 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.
Music History
Oct 24 Benjamin Britten's "Voices for Today" premieres
- 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 single "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, Alabama (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 29 The Who release single "My Generation" in UK
- Oct 30 Fireworks explosions kill 50 in Cartagena, Colombia
Film & TV History
Oct 30 British model Jean Shrimpton causes a sensation at Derby Day at the Melbourne races wearing a white shift dress (four inches above the knee)
- 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
Film Release
Nov 5 "Pierrot le Fou", directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina, is released
- 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 Prime Minister Ian Smith signs Unilateral Declaration of Independence, proclaiming independence from Britain
- Nov 11 William Alfred's "Hogan's Goat" premieres in NYC
Election of Interest
Nov 12 Ferdinand Marcos elected 10th President of Philippines
- 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 Cyril Ornadel and Leslie Bricusse's musical "Pickwick", based on Charles Dicken's novel "The Pickwick Papers", 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 Mitch Leigh, and Joe Darion's musical "Man of La Mancha", starring Richard Kiley opens at ANTA Washington Square Theater, NYC; runs for 2329 performances, wins 5 Tony Awards
Boxing Title Fight
Nov 22 In his second title defence, Muhammad Ali scores 12th-round KO of Floyd Patterson at Las Vegas Convention Center to retain his world heavyweight boxing championship
Film & TV History
Nov 22 "Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees" broadcast on CBS, watched by 25 million, brings Jane Goodall to international attention
Historic Event
Nov 24 Marshal Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu becomes President of Zaire