October 1965 in History

Events in History

Oct 1 Failed coup under lt col Untung in Indonesia
Oct 1 France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria

Event of Interest

Oct 2 Pope Paul VI named MR Perey bishop's helper of New Orleans

Oct 4 Pope Paul VI becomes 1st Catholic Pope to leave Italy since 1809, and 1st to visit Western Hemisphere, spending 14 hours in NYC to address the UN, meet with US President Lyndon Johnson, visit the World's Fair and St. Patrick's Cathedral, and celebrate mass at Yankee Stadium [1]
Oct 4 USSR launches Luna 7; crash lands on Moon
Oct 5 Chuck Linster performs 6,006 consecutive push-ups
Oct 5 Dick McInnes from Henderson, Kentucky stays aloft almost 12 hours in a kite pulled by a speedboat along the Ohio River
Oct 6 William Goodhart's "Generation" premieres in NYC
Oct 7 50 mph gust helps Robert Mitera ace 447-yd 10th hole at Miracle Hills, Omaha, Nebr to score world's longest straight hole-in-one
Oct 7 Charles Linster does 6,006 consecutive push-ups
Oct 8 Muslims in Jakarta set fire to PKI headquarters
Oct 8 Post Office Tower opens in London, then the tallest building in England
Oct 8 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Oct 10 "Vinland Map" is introduced by Yale University as being the first known map of America, drawn about 1440
Oct 14 Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 80 km
Oct 20 Mass arrests of communists in Indonesia
Oct 21 Comet Ikeya-Seki approaches perihelion, passing 450,000 kilometers from the sun.
Oct 21 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Robert B Woodward
Oct 21 Vivian Beaumont Theater (NYC) opens
Oct 26 Sylvia Likens tortured by teen girl gang
Oct 28 Gateway Arch (630' (190m) high) completed in St Louis, Missouri
Oct 28 Pope Paul VI proclaims Jews not collectively guilty for crucifixion
Oct 29 The Who release single "My Generation" in UK
Oct 29 US performs underground nuclear test at Amchitka Island Aleutians
Oct 30 Fireworks explosions kill 50 in Cartagena, Colombia

Birthdays in History

Oct 1 Chris Reason, Australian journalist
Oct 1 Mia Mottley, Barbadian politician, Prime Minister of Barbados (2018-), born in Barbados
Oct 4 "Stuttering John" Melendez, interviewer (Howard Stern Show)
Oct 6 Jim "Razor" Sharp, American rodeo rider (Las Vegas 1988), Kermit, Texas
Oct 10 Steve Scalise, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Louisiana), born in New Orleans, Louisiana
Oct 12 Scott O'Grady, American Air Force fighter pilot, born in Brooklyn, New York
Oct 14 Jüri Jaanson, Estonian rower
Oct 23 Augusten Burroughs [Christopher Richter Robison], American writer (Running with Scissors), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Oct 24 Kyriakos Velopoulos, Greek politician, born in Essen, Ruhr, West Germany
Oct 28 Luigi Miraglia, Italian Latinist

Weddings in History

Stephen Jay Gould

Oct 3 Paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould (23) weds artist Deborah Lee

Deaths in History

Oct 1 Edward E "Doc" Smith, American sci-fi writer (Subspace encounter), dies at 75
Oct 6 Georges Vandertongerloo, Belgium sculptor and painter (De Stijl Group, L'art et Son Avenir), dies at 78
Oct 11 Dorothea Lange, American documentary photographer, dies at 70
Oct 11 Walther Stampfli, Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council, dies at 80
Oct 13 Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist (1948 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discovering effects of DDT), dies at 66
Oct 22 Dipa Nusantara Aidit, Indonesian communist leader of PKI (1951-65), murdered at 42
Oct 22 Paul Tillich, German-American theologist (Courage To Be), dies at 79
Oct 26 Sylvia Likens, American torture victim (b. 1949)
Oct 27 Leo van Puyfielde, Belgian art historian and museum curator (worked with Monuments Men during WWII to recover looted artifacts), dies at 83
Oct 28 Ben Barka, Moroccan opposition leader, kidnapped & murdered in Paris
Oct 29 Mehdi Am Barka, Moroccan socialist leader, murdered in Paris