Historical Events in 1965 (Part 3)

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• Aug 11 6 day insurrection starts in Watts section of Los Angeles
• Aug 11 Beatles movie "Help" opens in NYC
• Aug 11 Watts riots begin in Southeast Los Angeles, lasts 6 days
• Aug 12 Dame Elizabeth Lane becomes first female English High Court judge
• Aug 12 Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, Inc applies for a NL franchise
• Aug 12 Race riot in West Side of Chicago
• Aug 14 Beatles tape an appearance for Ed Sullivan Show
• Aug 14 Continental Football League plays 1st games
• Aug 14 Sonny & Cher's "I Got You Babe" hits #1
• Aug 15 PGA Championship, Laurel Valley GC: Dave Marr wins his only major title, beating Billy Casper and Jack Nicklaus by 2 strokes
• Aug 15 Beatles play to 55,000 at Shea Stadium
• Aug 15 Mary Mills wins LPGA St Louis Golf Open
• 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 record tying (George Sisler)
• Aug 19 Auschwitz trials end with 6 life sentences
• Aug 19 Cincinnati Red Jim Maloney 2nd no-hitter of year beats Chicago Cubs, 1-0
• 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 & Hank Aaron (1954-65) pass Babe Ruth-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, NC (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 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,)

• Sep 2 Treblinka trial in Dusseldorf ends
• Sep 3 Curt Flood's record of 568 straight chances without an error begins
• Sep 3 Garcia Godoy forms government in Dominican Republic
• Sep 3 Jim Hickman becomes 1st NY Met to hit 3 HRs in a game
• Sep 3 Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Mysterium Fidei
• 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 - official beginning of 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 Sandy Koufax pitches his 4th no-hitter, a perfect game vs Cubs (1-0)
• 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 Mary Mills wins LPGA Eugene Golf Open
• Sep 12 WCEE TV channel 23 in Rockford, IL (CBS) begins broadcasting

• Sep 12 85th U.S. Men's National Championship: Manuel Santana beats Cliff Drysdale (6-2, 7-9, 7-5, 6-1)
• Sep 12 79th U.S. Women's National Championship: Margaret Court beats 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 "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 Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Visalia Golf Open
• 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 ceases-fire goes into effect, ending 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, 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 Donovan's 1st US TV appearance (Shindig)
• 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 Dodgers beat Braves to clinch NL pennant
• Oct 2 Mel Stottlemyre wins game #20
• Oct 2 Phillies' Chris Short strikes-out 18 NY Mets
• Oct 2 Pope Paul VI named MR Perey bishop's helper of New Orleans
• Oct 3 Cubs tie major league record of 3 triple plays in a season

• 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 Supremes release "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, tallest building in England
• Oct 8 Once-Hertogenbosch soccer team FC de Bosch forms
• Oct 8 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• Oct 9 16th Ryder Cup: US wins 19½-12½ at Royal Birkdale, England
• 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 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 19th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 5-2 at Montreal
• 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 Benjamin Britten's "Voices for Today" premieres
• Oct 24 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Phoenix Thunderbirds Golf Tournament
• Oct 24 16th Formula One WDC: Jim Clark wins by 14 points
• 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 Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Las Cruces Golf Open
• Oct 30 Fireworks explosions kill 50 in Cartagena, Colombia
• Nov 1 1st concert at Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco
• Nov 1 Ernie Terrel beats George Chuvalo in 15 for heavyweight boxing
• Nov 1 Trackless trolley plunged into Nile River drowning 74 (Cairo Egypt)
• Nov 3 Sandy Koufax wins NL Cy Young Award unanimously
• Nov 4 Lee Breedlove sets female land speed record (308.56 MPH) in Utah
• Nov 5 "Pierrot le Fou", directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina, is released
• Nov 6 19th College Football Crab Bowl Classic: Navy beats Maryland 19-7 in Annapolis
• Nov 7 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Tall City Golf Open
• 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 Rhodesia proclaimed independence from Britain by PM Ian Smith
• 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 "Fuck" 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 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Alamo Golf Open
• 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

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