February 1965 in History

Events in History

Feb 1 Martin Luther King Jr. & 700 demonstrators arrested in Selma Ala

Feb 1 NL adopts emergency team replacement plan to restock any club struck by disaster
Feb 2 Joe Orton's "Loot" premieres in Brighton
Feb 3 105 USAF cadets resigned for cheating in exams
Feb 3 Geraldine McCullough wins Widener Gold Medal for Sculpture
Feb 3 Orbiting Solar Observatory 2 launches into Earth orbit (552/636 km)
Feb 4 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Feb 5 Beursschouwburg opens in Brussels
Feb 6 "Kelly" opens & closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC
Feb 7 Operations begin at Grupo Folklorico Antiyano on Curacao
Feb 7 US begins regular bombing & strafing of N Vietnam
Feb 8 Eastern DC-7B crashes into Atlantic off Jones Beach NJ, kills 84
Feb 8 President Johnson deploys 1st US combat troops to South Vietnam, with 3500 marines sent to protect key US airbase near Da Nang
Feb 12 Nuclear test at Pacific Ocean
Feb 13 US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming

Feb 15 John Lennon passes his driving test

Feb 15 Red Maple Leaf Flag becomes the official flag of Canada
Feb 16 Pegasus 1 launched to detect micro-meteors
Feb 17 US Ranger 8 launched, will transmit 7,137 lunar pictures
Feb 18 27 copper miners die in avalanche, Granduc Mountain, British Columbia
Feb 18 Frank Gifford announces his retirement from football for broadcasting
Feb 18 The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom
Feb 20 Ranger 8 makes hard landing on the Moon, returns photos, other data
Feb 20 Turkish government of Uerguplu forms

Feb 21 Rights activist Malcolm X is shot dead by Nation of Islam followers at Audubon Ballroom in New York City

Feb 1 Stephanie Marie Elisabeth de Grimaldi, Monte Carlo Monaco, Princess
Feb 3 Karlous Marx Shinohamba, Namibian politician
Feb 9 Igor Babailov, Russian-born American portrait and figurative painter, born in Udmurtia, Russia
Feb 12 Brett Kavanaugh, US judge, born in Washington, D.C.
Feb 16 Adama Barrow, Gambian politician, President of Gambia (2017-), born in Mankamang Kunda, Gambia
Feb 18 Peter Martini, journalist
Feb 18 Dr. Dre [Andre Young], American record producer and rapper (Aftermath Entertainment), born in Compton, California
Feb 20 Federica Moro, Carate Brianza Italy, Miss Italy (1982)
Feb 22 Dean Karr, American director and photographer

Feb 23 Michael Dell, American computer manufacturer (Dell Technologies), born in Houston, Texas

Feb 23 Robert "Bob" Ferguson, American politician (Democratic Party) and Attorney General of Washington, born in Seattle, Washington
Feb 24 Jane Swift, former acting Governor of Massachusetts

Feb 2 Richard P Blackmur, American critic/publisher (Good European), dies at 61
Feb 4 U C Greyhound, champion trotter (horse), dies at 33
Feb 13 William H Kilpatrick, American mathematician/philosopher, dies at 93
Feb 19 Gheorge Gheorghiu Dej, Romanian president, dies at 63

Feb 21 Malcolm X [Little], African American human rights activist and Muslim minister, assassinated in New York City at 39

Feb 26 Jimmie Lee Jackson, civil rights activist, dies from gunshot wounds at 26