Historical Events in 1965 (Part 4)

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Nov 26 France launches 1st satellite, 92 lb (42 kg) A1-capsule (Astérix), named after the popular French comic character

Nov 27 15-25,000 demonstrate against war in Vietnam in Washington, D.C.
Nov 27 1st French satellite launched; France becomes 3rd nation in space
Nov 27 53rd CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeat Winn Blue Bombers, 22-16
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, Augusta CC: Kathy Whitworth wins by 10 shots from Peggy Wilson for her first major title
Nov 29 "Anya" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 16 performances
Nov 29 Dale Cummings does 14,118 consecutive sit-ups
Dec 1 Airlift of refugees from Cuba to US began
Dec 1 South Africa's government says children of white fathers are white
Dec 3 The Beatles begin final UK concert tour in Glasgow
Dec 3 USSR launches Luna 8; it crashes on the Moon
Dec 4 "Roar of the Greasepaint" closes at Shubert NYC after 232 performances

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

Dec 17 British government proclaims ends oil-embargo against Rhodesia
Dec 17 David Levy begins his search for comets
Dec 17 Dutch government shuts Limburgs coal mine
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 Buffalo Bills beat San Diego Chargers 23-0 in AFL championship game

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

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