May 1965 in History

Events in History

May 11 Ellis Island added to Statue of Liberty National monument

May 11 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
May 12 Israel and West Germany establish diplomatic relations with an exchange of letters
May 13 Several Arab nations break ties with West Germany after it established diplomatic relations with Israel
May 14 2nd Chinese atom bomb explodes
May 14 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
May 15 Igor Vodic beats Mad Dog Vachon in Omaha, to become NWA champ
May 16 Bomb destroys USAF base Bien Hoa, South Vietnam
May 16 The Campbell Soup Company introduces SpaghettiOs under its Franco-American brand

May 18 American engineer Ray Dolby founds Dolby Laboratories in London, England

May 19 Patricia R. Harris named 1st US black female ambassador (Luxembourg)
May 20 Pakistani Boeing 720-B crashes at Cairo Egypt, killing 121
May 20 Yorkshire all out for 23 v Hampshire at Middlesbrough
May 22 Mad Dog Vachon beats Igor Vodic in Omaha, to become NWA champ
May 23 Franz Jonas elected President of Austria
May 23 Pontoon ferry overturned on Shire River, Malawi, kills 150
May 24 Supreme Court declares federal law allowing post office to intercept communist propaganda is unconstitutional
May 25 Fighting along the Indian and Pakistan border
May 25 Roel van Duyn, Martijn Ananar & Rob Faado align in Provo
May 26 Dutch Voting Rights Bill passes
May 26 Revised International Convention on Safety of Life at Sea takes effect
May 28 Fire & explosion at Dhori mine in Dhanbad India kills 400
May 30 France performs nuclear test at Ecker Algeria (Underground)
May 30 Viet Cong offensive against US base Da Nang, begins
May 30 Vivian Malone is 1st black to graduate from University of Alabama

May 9 Ken Nomura, Japanese auto racer (D1 Grand Prix 2006, 08 runner-up), born in Fukuoka, Japan
May 13 José Antonio Delgado, Venezuelan mountain climber (d. 2006)
May 13 Natalie Massenet, entrepreneur and founder of Net-a-Porter, born in Los Angeles, California
May 14 Eoin Colfer, Irish writer
May 17 Richard Baumhammers, American spree killer
May 24 Shinichirō Watanabe, Japanese anime director (Samurai Champloo), born in Kyoto, Japan

May 25 Gambian dictator (1994-2017), born in Kanilai, Gambia

May 3 Howard Spring, Welsh writer and critic (Heaven Lies About Us), dies at 76
May 3 Otto Forst de Battaglia, Austrian diplomat and genealogist, dies at 75
May 4 Norman Brokenshire, TV moderator (Four Square Court), dies at 66
May 9 Leopold Figl, Austrian politician (13th Chancellor of Austria), dies at 62
May 10 Hubertus van Mook, Dutch colonial administrator (Acting Governor General of the Dutch East Indies 1942-48), dies at 70
May 11 Lode Baekelmans, Belgian writer (Tille), dies at 84
May 14 Frances Perkins, American politician and 1st woman to hold cabinet-level position (Labor 1933-45), dies at 83
May 15 Adrian Schoevers, Dutch director (Schoevers Institution), dies
May 18 Eduard Jan Dijksterhuis, Dutch historian of science (biography of Archimedes), dies at 72
May 19 Maria Dabrowska, Polish writer (Nights and Days), dies at 75
May 21 Geoffrey de Havilland, British aircraft designer, dies at 82
May 22 Christopher Stone, first disc jockey in the United Kingdom (b. 1882)
May 22 Heinrich Barth, Swiss philosopher (Das Sein in der Zeit), dies
May 23 David Smith, sculptor, dies