Historical Events in 1965 (Part 4)

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• 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 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 2 passenger planes collide above Danbury, Connecticut, 4 die
• Dec 4 2nd NY Knicks game postponed (due to death of opponent 76ers' owner)

• 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 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 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 22 Belgian government shuts 6 coal mines

• 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 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 29 CBS purchases NFL TV rights for 1966-68 at $18.8 million per year
• Dec 29 Supremes release "My World is Empty Without You"
• Dec 29 54th Davis Cup: Australia beats Spain in Sydney (4-1)

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