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Date	Event
January 1, 1965	The People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan is founded in Kabul, Afghanistan.
January 27, 1965	South Vietnamese Prime Minister Trần Văn Hương is removed by the military junta of Nguyễn Khánh.
January 28, 1965	The current design of the Flag of Canada is chosen by an act of Parliament.
February 8, 1965	Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean and explodes, killing everyone aboard.
February 9, 1965	Vietnam War: The United States Marine Corps sends a MIM-23 Hawk missile battalion to South Vietnam, the first American troops in-country without an official advisory or training mission.
February 12, 1965	Malcolm X visits Smethwick near Birmingham following the racially-charged 1964 United Kingdom general election.
February 15, 1965	A new red-and-white maple leaf design is adopted as the flag of Canada, replacing the old Canadian Red Ensign banner.
February 17, 1965	Project Ranger: The Ranger 8 probe launches on its mission to photograph the Mare Tranquillitatis region of the Moon in preparation for the manned Apollo missions. Mare Tranquillitatis or the "Sea of Tranquility" would become the site chosen for the Apollo 11 lunar landing.
February 18, 1965	The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
February 19, 1965	Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, and a communist spy of the North Vietnamese Viet Minh, along with Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Trần Thiện Khiêm, all Catholics, attempt a coup against the military junta of the Buddhist Nguyễn Khánh.
February 20, 1965	Ranger 8 crashes into the Moon after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program astronauts.
February 21, 1965	Malcolm X is gunned down while giving a speech at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem.
March 2, 1965	The US and Republic of Vietnam Air Force begin Operation Rolling Thunder, a sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam.
March 5, 1965	March Intifada: A Leftist uprising erupts in Bahrain against British colonial presence.
March 6, 1965	Premier Tom Playford of South Australia loses power after 27 years in office.
March 7, 1965	Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers is brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama.
March 8, 1965	Vietnam War: US Marines arrive at Da Nang.
March 15, 1965	President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to the Selma crisis, tells U.S. Congress "We shall overcome" while advocating the Voting Rights Act.
March 18, 1965	Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.
March 19, 1965	The wreck of the SS Georgiana, valued at over $50,000,000 and said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is discovered by teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence, exactly 102 years after its destruction.
March 21, 1965	Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9, the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes.
March 21, 1965	Martin Luther King Jr. leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
March 23, 1965	NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States' first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young).
March 25, 1965	Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King Jr. successfully complete their 4-day 50-mile march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.
March 28, 1965	An Mw  7.4 earthquake in Chile sets off a series of tailings dam failures, burying the town of El Cobre and killing at least 500 people.
March 30, 1965	Vietnam War: A car bomb explodes in front of the United States Embassy, Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others.
April 6, 1965	Launch of Early Bird, the first commercial communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit.
April 7, 1965	Representatives of the National Congress of American Indians testify before members of the US Senate in Washington, D.C. against the termination of the Colville tribe.
April 11, 1965	The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states, killing 256 people.
April 21, 1965	The 1964–1965 New York World's Fair opens for its second and final season.
April 24, 1965	Civil war breaks out in the Dominican Republic when Colonel Francisco Caamaño overthrows the triumvirate that had been in power since the coup d'état against Juan Bosch.
April 28, 1965	United States occupation of the Dominican Republic: American troops land in the Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship" and to evacuate U.S. Army troops.
April 29, 1965	Pakistan's Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) successfully launches its seventh rocket in its Rehber series.
May 12, 1965	The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes on the Moon.
May 18, 1965	Israeli spy Eli Cohen is hanged in Damascus, Syria.
May 20, 1965	One hundred twenty-one people are killed when Pakistan International Airlines Flight 705 crashes at Cairo International Airport.
May 27, 1965	Vietnam War: American warships begin the first bombardment of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam.
June 3, 1965	The launch of Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew. Ed White, a crew member, performs the first American spacewalk.
June 7, 1965	The Supreme Court of the United States hands down its decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, prohibiting the states from criminalizing the use of contraception by married couples.
June 9, 1965	The civilian Prime Minister of South Vietnam, Phan Huy Quát, resigns after being unable to work with a junta led by Nguyễn Cao Kỳ.
June 9, 1965	Vietnam War: The Viet Cong commences combat with the Army of the Republic of Vietnam in the Battle of Đồng Xoài, one of the largest battles in the war.
June 18, 1965	Vietnam War: The United States Air Force uses B-52 bombers to attack guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam.
June 19, 1965	Nguyễn Cao Kỳ becomes Prime Minister of South Vietnam at the head of a military junta; General Nguyễn Văn Thiệu becomes the figurehead chief of state.
June 22, 1965	The Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea is signed.
July 14, 1965	Mariner 4 flyby of Mars takes the first close-up photos of another planet. The photographs take approximately six hours to be transmitted back to Earth.
July 16, 1965	The Mont Blanc Tunnel linking France and Italy opens.
July 16, 1965	South Vietnamese Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo, a formerly undetected communist spy and double agent, is hunted down and killed by unknown individuals after being sentenced to death in absentia for a February 1965 coup attempt against Nguyễn Khánh.
July 25, 1965	Bob Dylan goes electric at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music.
July 28, 1965	Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces his order to increase the number of United States troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000.
July 29, 1965	Vietnam War: The first 4,000 101st Airborne Division paratroopers arrive in Vietnam, landing at Cam Ranh Bay.
July 30, 1965	U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.
August 1, 1965	Frank Herbert's novel, Dune was published for the first time. It was named as the world's best-selling science fiction novel in 2003.
August 4, 1965	The Constitution of the Cook Islands comes into force, giving the Cook Islands self-governing status within New Zealand.
August 5, 1965	The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 begins as Pakistani soldiers cross the Line of Control dressed as locals.
August 6, 1965	US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.
August 9, 1965	Singapore is expelled from Malaysia and becomes the only country to date to gain independence unwillingly.
August 11, 1965	Race riots (the Watts Riots) begin in the Watts area of Los Angeles, California.
August 15, 1965	The Beatles play to nearly 60,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York City, an event later regarded as the birth of stadium rock.
August 18, 1965	Vietnam War: Operation Starlite begins: United States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in the first major American ground battle of the war.
August 19, 1965	Japanese prime minister Eisaku Satō becomes the first post-World War II sitting prime minister to visit Okinawa Prefecture.
August 21, 1965	The Socialist Republic of Romania is proclaimed, following the adoption of a new constitution.
August 29, 1965	The Gemini V spacecraft returns to Earth, landing in the Atlantic Ocean.
September 6, 1965	India retaliates following Pakistan's Operation Grand Slam which results in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 that ends in a stalemate followed by the signing of the Tashkent Declaration.
September 7, 1965	During an Indo-Pakistani War, China announces that it will reinforce its troops on the Indian border.
September 7, 1965	Vietnam War: In a follow-up to August's Operation Starlite, United States Marines and South Vietnamese forces initiate Operation Piranha on the Batangan Peninsula.
September 9, 1965	The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development is established.
September 9, 1965	Hurricane Betsy makes its second landfall near New Orleans, leaving 76 dead and $1.42 billion ($10–12 billion in 2005 dollars) in damages, becoming the first hurricane to cause over $1 billion in unadjusted damage.
September 11, 1965	Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Army captures the town of Burki, just southeast of Lahore.
September 17, 1965	The Battle of Chawinda is fought between Pakistan and India.
September 20, 1965	Following the Battle of Burki, the Indian Army captures Dograi in during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
September 21, 1965	The Gambia, Maldives and Singapore are admitted as members of the United Nations.
September 22, 1965	The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, ends after the United Nations calls for a ceasefire.
September 30, 1965	Six Indonesian Army generals were assassinated by the September 30 Movement. The PKI was blamed for the latter, resulting in mass killings of suspected leftists.
October 4, 1965	Pope Paul VI begins the first papal visit to the Americas.
October 15, 1965	Vietnam War: A draft card is burned during an anti-war rally by the Catholic Worker Movement, resulting in the first arrest under a new law.
October 17, 1965	The 1964–65 New York World's Fair closes after two years and more than 51 million attendees.
October 21, 1965	Comet Ikeya–Seki approaches perihelion, passing 450,000 kilometers (279,617 miles) from the sun.
October 23, 1965	Vietnam War: The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), in conjunction with the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, launches an operation seeking to destroy Communist forces during the siege of Plei Me.
October 28, 1965	Pope Paul VI promulgates Nostra aetate, by which the Roman Catholic Church officially recognizes the legitimacy of non-Christian faiths.
November 2, 1965	Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old Quaker, sets himself on fire in front of the river entrance to the Pentagon to protest the use of napalm in the Vietnam war.
November 8, 1965	The British Indian Ocean Territory is created, consisting of Chagos Archipelago, Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches islands.
November 8, 1965	The Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965 is given Royal Assent, formally abolishing the death penalty in the United Kingdom for almost all crimes.
November 8, 1965	The 173rd Airborne is ambushed by over 1,200 Viet Cong in Operation Hump during the Vietnam War, while the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment fight one of the first set-piece engagements of the war between Australian forces and the Viet Cong at the Battle of Gang Toi.
November 8, 1965	American Airlines Flight 383 crashes in Constance, Kentucky, killing 58.
November 9, 1965	Several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours in the Northeast blackout of 1965.
November 9, 1965	A Catholic Worker Movement member, Roger Allen LaPorte, protesting against the Vietnam War, sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building.
November 11, 1965	Southern Rhodesia's Prime Minister Ian Smith unilaterally declares the colony independent as the unrecognised state of Rhodesia.
November 11, 1965	United Airlines Flight 227 crashes at Salt Lake City International Airport, killing 43.
November 14, 1965	Vietnam War: The Battle of Ia Drang begins: The first major engagement between regular American and North Vietnamese forces.
November 15, 1965	Craig Breedlove sets a land speed record of 600.601 mph (966.574 km/h) in his car, the Spirit of America, at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.
November 16, 1965	Venera program: The Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe toward Venus, which will be the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet.
November 24, 1965	Joseph-Désiré Mobutu seizes power in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and becomes President; he rules the country (which he renames Zaire in 1971) for over 30 years, until being overthrown by rebels in 1997.
November 26, 1965	France launches Astérix, becoming the third nation to put an object in orbit using its own booster.
November 27, 1965	Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned operations are to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam has to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000.
November 28, 1965	Vietnam War: In response to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's call for "more flags" in Vietnam, Philippine President-elect Ferdinand Marcos announces he will send troops to help fight in South Vietnam.
December 4, 1965	Launch of Gemini 7 with crew members Frank Borman and Jim Lovell. The Gemini 7 spacecraft was the passive target for the first crewed space rendezvous performed by the crew of Gemini 6A.
December 7, 1965	Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously revoke mutual excommunications that had been in place since 1054.
December 9, 1965	Kecksburg UFO incident: A fireball is seen from Michigan to Pennsylvania; with witnesses reporting something crashing in the woods near Pittsburgh.
December 15, 1965	Project Gemini: Gemini 6A, crewed by Wally Schirra and Thomas Stafford, is launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida. Four orbits later, it achieves the first space rendezvous, with Gemini 7.
December 21, 1965	International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination is adopted.
December 22, 1965	In the United Kingdom, a 70 miles per hour (110 km/h) speed limit is applied to all rural roads including motorways for the first time.
December 31, 1965	Jean-Bédel Bokassa, leader of the Central African Republic army, and his military officers begin a coup d'état against the government of President David Dacko.