Historical Events in 1965 (Part 4)

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Dec 4 Gemini 7 launched with Frank Borman and Jim Lovell

Dec 4 San Francisco Giant Masanori Murakami, 4-1 this year, does not renew his contract signing instead with the Nankai Hawks of Osaka for $40,000
Dec 6 2 trucks crashed into a crowd of dancers in Sotouboua Togo, kills 125
Dec 6 Pakistan's Islamic Ideology Advisory Committee recommends that Islamic Studies be made a compulsory subject for Muslim students from primary to graduate level.
Dec 7 Pope Paul VI & Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously lift mutual excommunications that led to split of 2 churches in 1054
Dec 8 Abe Burrows' "Cactus Flower" premieres in NYC
Dec 8 Nikolai Podgorny succeeds Mikojan as president of USSR
Dec 8 Pope Paul VI signs 2nd Vatican council
Dec 9 "A Charlie Brown Christmas" premieres

Dec 9 Frank Robinson is traded from Cincinnati to the Orioles
Dec 9 Nikolai Podgorny replaces Anastas Mikoyan as president of Soviet Praesidium
Dec 10 "Yearling" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 3 performances
Dec 10 Dutch ends economic boycott of Rhodesia
Dec 10 Test Cricket debut of Doug Walters v England at the Gabba
Dec 11 "Anya" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 16 performances
Dec 11 "Yearling" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 3 performances
Dec 12 The Beatles' last concert in Great Britain (Capitol Theatre in Cardiff, Wales)
Dec 12 Doug Walters makes maiden Test ton in 1st Test, goes on to 155

Dec 12 Chicago halfback Gale Sayers ties NFL record for most touchdowns in a game with 6 in 61–20 victory over San Francisco 49ers at Wrigley Field

Dec 12 Vivian Beaumont Theater opens at 65th St & Amsterdam Ave NYC
Dec 13 Algerian president Boumedienne visits Moscow
Dec 14 "La Grusse Valise" opens at 54th St Theater NYC for 7 performances
Dec 15 3rd cyclone of year kills 15,000 at the mouths of the Ganges River in Bangladesh
Dec 15 D Heneker & J Taylor's musical "Charlie Girl" premieres in London
Dec 15 Gemini 6 launched; makes 1st rendezvous in space (with Gemini 7)
Dec 15 Queen Juliana opens Zeeland Bridge to Oosterschelde
Dec 15 William Eckert replaces Ford Frick as 4th Commissioner of Baseball
Dec 16 Gemini 6 returns to Earth
Dec 16 Pioneer 6 launched into solar orbit
Dec 16 Taufa'ahau Tupou IV becomes King of Tonga

Dec 17 Astrodome opens, 1st event is Judy Garland & Supremes concert

Dec 17 Largest newspaper-Sunday NY Times at 946 pages (50 cents)
Dec 18 "La Grusse Valise" closes at 54th St Theater NYC after 7 performances
Dec 18 Frank Borman and Jim Lovell Splash down in Atlantic after two week Gemini VII mission
Dec 18 Kenneth LeBel jumps 17 barrels on ice skates

Dec 19 French President De Gaulle re-elected (Mitterrand gets 45%)

Dec 22 "Doctor Zhivago" based on the novel by Boris Pasternak, directed by David Lean and starring Omar Sharif and Julie Christie premieres in NYC

Dec 22 Great Britain sets national maximum road speed at 70 miles per hour
Dec 22 Radio Mil (Domincan Republic) transmitter blown up
Dec 25 The Yemeni Nasserite Unionist People's Organisation is founded in Taiz

Dec 25 US President Lyndon B. Johnson orders a halt to bombing operations in North Vietnam, hoping to spur peace talks

Dec 26 "Funny Girl" based on the life of Fanny Brice, with Barbra Streisand closes on Broadway
Dec 26 AFL Championship, Balboa Stadium San Diego: Buffalo Bills beat San Diego Chargers 23-0; repeat previous year's win over SD

Dec 26 Paul McCartney is interviewed on pirate radio station Radio Caroline

Dec 28 Ballon d'Or: Benfica striker Eusébio wins award for best European football player; first Portuguese national to win, and still only Benfica player

Dec 29 "Thunderball", 4th James Bond film starring Sean Connery and Claudine Auger premieres in Tokyo

Dec 30 Ferdinand Marcos inaugurated as President of the Phillipines