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- Jan 1 49-year-old former England international soccer forward Stanley Matthews becomes only player to be awarded a knighthood while still playing (Stoke City)
Murphy Joins US Senate
Jan 1 American actor George Murphy begins his term as Senator of California
- Jan 1 International Cooperation Year begins
- Jan 1 Palestinian al-Fatah organization forms
- Jan 1 The People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan is founded in Kabul.
- Jan 2 Ayub Khan elected President of Pakistan
King's Voter Drive
Jan 2 Martin Luther King Jr. begins a drive to register black voters
Jets Sign Namath
Jan 2 New York Jets sign future Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Namath to a $427,000 contract over three years (pro football record at the time)
- Jan 2 Obverse design of all Canadian coins is changed to depict present-day
- Jan 6 Geoff Boycott takes 3-47 against South Africa, his best Test bowling
- Jan 7 France announces it will convert $150 million of its currency to gold
- Jan 7 Twin brothers are in held in custody in London charged with abduction and murder
- Jan 8 Senator Everett Dirksen introduces a bill to make marigold the American natonal flower (it does not pass)
- Jan 8 Star of India returned to American Museum of Natural History
- Jan 9 Beatles '65 album goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks
- Jan 10 Bollingen Prize for Poetry awarded to Horace Gregory [1]
- Jan 10 WKBD TV channel 50 in Detroit, Michigan (IND) begins broadcasting
- Jan 12 "Hullabaloo" premieres on NBC-TV
- Jan 12 At 10:58 am PST burn up a nuclear rocket in Nevada
- Jan 15 Brunswick Records releases the single "I Can't Explain" by British rockers "The Who" in the UK, their 1st after changing their band name
Warriors Trade Chamberlain
Jan 15 One of the biggest trades in NBA history; San Francisco Warriors send Wilt Chamberlain to the Philadelphia 76ers for Connie Dierking, Lee Shaffer, Paul Neumann and cash
- Jan 15 Soviet underground nuclear test creates the atomic lake Chagan, Kazakhstan
- Jan 15 Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, Michigan, forms
- Jan 16 "Outer Limits" last airs on ABC-TV
- Jan 16 The Searchers' "Love Potion Number 9" peaks at #3
- Jan 16 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
- Jan 18 H L de Vries appointed Dutch governor of Suriname
Franco Meets Jewish Representatives
Jan 20 Generalissimo Francisco Franco meets with Jewish representatives to discuss legitimizing Jewish communities in Spain
- Jan 20 The Byrds record "Mr Tambourine Man"
- Jan 20 The US Jet Propulsion Laboratory proposes modified Apollo flight to fly around Mars & return
- Jan 21 Iranian premier Hassan Ali Mansur assassinated by 17-year-old Mohammad Bokharaei, a member of the Fadayan-e Islam
- Jan 22 US launches TIROS 9 weather satellite
Celtics Lose to 76ers
Jan 23 Boston Celtics' center Bill Russell misses all 14 shots in 104-100 loss to Philadelphia 76ers, led by newly acquired Wilt Chamberlain
- Jan 23 Musical variety program "King Family Show", featuring big band vocal group The King Sisters, premieres on ABC TV
- Jan 26 South Vietnam military coup under general Nguyen Khanh
- Jan 27 1st ground station-to-aircraft radio communication via satellite
- Jan 27 Groundbreaking for "Dragon Gateway" at Grant Avenue
- Jan 28 "The Who" make their 1st appearance on British television programme "Ready Steady Go!"
- Jan 30 "The Name Game" by Shirley Ellis hits #3
Churchill's State Funeral
Jan 30 State funeral for Winston Churchill at St Paul's Cathedral in London; at the time, the world's largest-ever state funeral
- Jan 31 19th century pitcher James 'Pud' Galvin elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
Emerson's Third Title
Feb 1 Australian Championship Men's Tennis: Roy Emerson wins 3rd consecutive Australian title; beats fellow Australian Fred Stolle 7-9, 2-6, 6-4, 7-5, 6-1
Event of Interest
Feb 1 Dutch Queen Juliana opens Brienenoord Bridge in Rotterdam
Patterson vs. Chuvalo
Feb 1 Former world heavyweight boxing champion Floyd Patterson beats Canadian George Chuvalo by unanimous decision in a 12-round non-title clash at New York’s Madison Square Garden; 'The Ring' names bout Fight of the Year.
- Feb 1 Martin Luther King Jr. and 700 demonstrators arrested in Selma, Alabama
- Feb 1 NL adopts emergency team replacement plan to restock any club struck by disaster
Jennings ABC Anchor
Feb 1 Peter Jennings, 26, becomes anchor of ABC's nightly news
- Feb 2 Joe Orton's play "Loot" premieres in Brighton
- Feb 3 105 USAF cadets resigned for cheating in exams
- Feb 3 Braves offer Milwaukee $500,000 to terminate their lease a year earlier, the proposal is turned down
- 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 6 Righteous Brothers "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" hits #1
Harrison's Tonsils
Feb 7 George Harrison's tonsils removed
- Feb 7 Operations begin at Grupo Folklorico Antiyano on Curacao
- Feb 7 US begins regular bombing & strafing of North Vietnam
- Feb 7 WVIZ TV channel 25 in Cleveland, Ohio (PBS) begins broadcasting
- Feb 8 Eastern DC-7B crashes into Atlantic off Jones Beach, NJ, kills 84
Stop In the Name of Love
Feb 8 Motown Records release The Supremes' single "Stop In the Name of Love"
- 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 11 Braves propose to pay 5 cents from each ticket to bring a new team to Milwaukee
- Feb 12 KHFI (now KBVO) TV channel 42 in Austin, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
- Feb 12 Nuclear test at Pacific Ocean
- Feb 14 7th Daytona 500: Fred Lorenzen wins driving for Holman-Moody; race ends on lap 133 due to persistent rain
Music History
Feb 15 John Lennon passes his driving test
Sports History
Feb 17 US-Japan baseball relations suspended over Masanori Murakami dispute
- Feb 18 27 copper miners die in avalanche, Granduc Mountain, British Columbia
Music History
Feb 18 Betty Comden & Adolph Green and Jule Styne's musical "Fade Out-Fade In", featuring Carol Burnett, Dick Shawn (replacing Jack Cassidy), and Tina Louise, returns from lay-off at Mark Hellinger Theater, NYC
Event of Interest
Feb 18 Church deacon Jimmie Lee Jackson is beaten and shot during a peaceful march in Marion, Alabama. His death 8 days later inspires the Selma to Montgomery marches.
- Feb 18 Frank Gifford announces his retirement from football for broadcasting
- Feb 18 The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom
- Feb 19 NFL adds 6th official - the line judge
- Feb 20 NASA's Ranger 8 probe completes planned "impact trajectory" on the Moon, successfully transmitting myriad photos and other data [1]
- Feb 20 The Beatles record "That Means A Lot"; unhappy with the results, it was given to P.J. Proby to record; the original Beatles version was unreleased until 1996 on "Anthology 2"
- Feb 20 Turkish government of Uerguplu forms
- Feb 22 Rodgers & Hammerstein's television musical "Cinderella", starring Lesley Ann Warren and Stuart Damon, with Pat Carroll and Celeste Holm, premieres on CBS-TV
- Feb 22 USSR launches Kosmos 57 into earth orbit (Voskhod Test)
- Feb 23 Constance Baker Motley elected Manhattan Borough president
- Feb 24 Beatles begin filming "Help" in Bahamas
- Feb 24 East German president Ulbricht visits Egypt
- Feb 26 Dutch government of Marijnen falls
- Feb 26 West Germany ceases military aid to Tanzania
- Feb 27 Dutch Marijnen government resigns
- Feb 27 France performs Underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
Olympic Gold
Mar 1 Australian swimming authorities suspend triple Olympic gold medal winning sprinter Dawn Fraser for 10 years for misconduct at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics
- Mar 1 Gas explosion kills 28 in apartment complex in La Salle, Quebec
- Mar 1 WPSX TV channel 3 in Clearfield, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting
- Mar 2 Montcalm Community College founded in Sidney, Mich
The Sound of Music
Mar 2 One of the most popular musical films of all time, "The Sound of Music", starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, premieres (Academy Awards Best Picture - 1966)
- Mar 2 US Air Force begins Operation Rolling Thunder, a three year sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam
- Mar 3 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Mar 3 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
David Attenborough Heads BBC2
Mar 4 David Attenborough becomes the new controller of BBC2
Music Premiere
Mar 5 1st performance of Walter Piston's 8th Symphony (his last), by the Boston Symphony, conducted by Erich Leinsdorf
- Mar 5 Ernie Terrell beats Eddie Machen by unanimous points decision over 15 rounds in Chicago, Illinois to win vacant WBA heavyweight boxing title
- Mar 5 March Intifada: A Leftist uprising erupts in Bahrain against British colonial presence
- Mar 6 1st nonstop helicopter crossing of North America, JR Willford
- Mar 6 Bruce Taylor hits 105 for NZ v India in 1st Test Cricket innings
My Girl Hits #1
Mar 6 The Temptations' single "My Girl" reaches #1 on the Billboard Pop Chart; written and produced by the Miracles members Smokey Robinson and Ronald White
Event of Interest
Mar 7 Alabama state troopers and 600 black protesters clash in Selma during "Bloody Sunday", protesters, including future congressman John Lewis beaten and hospitalized
- Mar 7 Bruce Taylor takes 5-86 in debut innings for NZ after ton
- Mar 7 Christian-democrats win parliament in Chile
- Mar 8 First US combat forces arrive in Vietnam, on the beaches of Da Nang
- Mar 10 "I've Got a Tiger By the Tail" album by Buck Owens is released (Billboard Album of the Year, 1965)
- Mar 10 Dutch Princess Margriet & Pieter van Vollenhoven get engaged
Event of Interest
Mar 11 Indonesia President Sukarno signs the 'Supersemar' order, giving army commander Lt. Gen. Suharto authority to do whatever he "deemed necessary" to restore order
Music History
Mar 13 British guitarist Eric Clapton quits the Yardbirds due to the band moving away from traditional blues; Jeff Beck becomes his replacement
- Mar 14 Israeli cabinet approves diplomatic relations with West Germany
- Mar 15 T.G.I. Friday's 1st restaurant opens in NYC
- Mar 15 WMFE TV channel 24 in Orlando, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting
- Mar 17 Beatles announce their second film is titled "8 Arms to Hold You" ; later changed to "Help!"
- Mar 18 A truck loses control down Moosic Street, Scranton, Pennsylvania, killing the driver. This accident later inspired the 1974 Harry Chapin song, "30,000 Pounds of Bananas."
- Mar 18 Poppin' Fresh Pillsbury Dough Boy introduced
- Mar 18 Rolling Stones fined £5 each for public urination
1st Person to Walk in Space
Mar 18 Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov leaves his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes and becomes the first person to conduct a spacewalk
- Mar 18 USSR launches Voshkod 2
- Mar 19 Indonesia nationalizes all foreign oil companies
- Mar 19 Rembrandt's "Titus" sells for then record 7,770,000 guilders
- Mar 19 Stoica becomes president & Ceausescu party leader of Romania
- Mar 19 The wreck of the SS Georgiana, valued at over $50,000,000, said to have been most powerful Confederate cruiser, discovered by then teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence exactly 102 years after its destruction.
Dorothy Height's 1st Column
Mar 20 Civil and Women's Rights Activist Dorothy Height has her first column published in the weekly African-American newspaper called the "New York Amsterdam News"
- Mar 20 Venkataraghavan takes 8-72 v NZ at Delhi
- Mar 21 Martin Luther King Jr. begins march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama
- Mar 21 US Ranger 9 launched; takes 5,814 pictures before lunar impact
- Mar 22 Dudley Senanayake wins his third in general elections in Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
Election of Interest
Mar 22 Nicolae Ceausescu is elected General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party
- Mar 22 US confirms its troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong
- Mar 23 Gemini 3 launched, 1st US 2-man space flight (Grissom & Young)
- Mar 23 Moroccan army shoots on demonstrators, about 100 killed
- Mar 24 US Ranger 9 strikes Moon, 10 miles (16 km) NE of crater Alphonsus
- Mar 25 Martin Luther King Jr. leads 25,000 to state capitol in Montgomery, Alabama
- Mar 25 West German Bondsdag extends war crimes retribution
- Mar 30 Vietnam War: A car bomb explodes in front of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others
- Mar 31 Iberia Airlines Convair 440 crashes into the sea on approach to Tangier killing 47 of 51 occupants
- Apr 1 South Africa worker's union leader Henry Fazzie sentenced to 10 years
- Apr 1 Syncom 3, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, passes from civilian to military control
- Apr 2 Hochhuths play "Stellvertreter" banned in Italy
- Apr 3 1st atomic powered spacecraft (snap) launched
- Apr 4 The first model of the new Saab Viggen fighter aircraft plane is unveiled.
Academy Awards
Apr 5 37th Academy Awards: "My Fair Lady", Rex Harrison (My Fair Lady) & Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins) win
Baseball Record
Apr 9 1st baseball game at Houston Astrodome, Astros beat NY Yankees 2-1 in exhibition as Mickey Mantle hits MLB's 1st indoor homerun; US President Lyndon Johnson and wife Lady Bird attend
- Apr 9 Beatles "Ticket to Ride" single is released in UK
- Apr 11 40 tornadoes strike US midwest killing 272 & injuring 5,000
- Apr 12 1st regular season MLB game at Houston Astrodome; visiting Philadelphia Phillies beat Astros 2-0
- Apr 13 1st US Senate black page, Lawrence W Bradford Jr, 16, appointed by New York Senator Jacob Javits
- Apr 13 7th Grammy Awards: "The Girl From Ipanema", The Beatles win
- Apr 13 The Beatles record their single "Help!"
- Apr 14 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Apr 15 NFL changes penalty flag from white to bright gold
- Apr 16 Test flight of heavy Saturn S-1C-rocket
Whipped Cream & Other Delights
Apr 19 "Whipped Cream & Other Delights", fourth full album by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass Band, is released
- Apr 19 1st all news radio station (WINS 1010 AM in NYC) begins operating
- Apr 19 At a cost of $20,000, the outer Astrodome ceiling is painted because of sun's glare, this causes the grass to die
- Apr 19 T.A.M.I. Show premieres in London
- Apr 20 People's Republic China offers North Vietnam military aid
- Apr 21 New York World's Fair reopens for 2nd & final season
- Apr 23 "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)" single released by the Four Tops (Billboard Song of the Year 1965)
- Apr 23 Launch of 1st Soviet communications satellite
- Apr 24 Military coup under Donald Reid Cabral in Dominican Republic
Music Premiere
Apr 26 Charles Ives' 4th Symphony premieres at Carnegie Hall, New York, 11 years after the composer's death
- Apr 27 RC Duncan patents "Pampers" disposable diaper
My Name is Barbra
Apr 28 "My Name is Barbra", Barbra Streisand's first television special, premieres on CBS
- Apr 28 Lindsey Nelson broadcasts baseball game at Houston Astrodome from a hanging gondola
Music Concert
Apr 28 Luciano Pavarotti makes his debut at La Scala, Milan in Franco Zeffirelli's production of "La bohème" with Mirella Freni
- Apr 28 Richard Helms replaces Marshall S. Carter as deputy director of CIA
- Apr 28 US marines invade Dominican Republic, stay until October 1966
- Apr 28 William F. Raborn Jr. replaces John A. McCone as 7th head of CIA
- Apr 29 Australian government announces it would send troops to Vietnam
Music History
Apr 29 Canadian folk singer-songwriter Joni Anderson (soon to be known as Joni Mitchell) meets American folk singer and future husband Chuck Mitchell at a gig in Toronto, Ontario
- Apr 29 Earthquake hits Seattle; 5 die
- Apr 29 Malta becomes 18th member of Council of Europe
- May 1 Battle of Dong-Yin, a naval conflict between ROC and PRC, takes place.
- May 1 Stanley Cup, Montreal Forum, Montreal, Quebec: Dick Duff has a goal and 2 assists as Montreal Canadiens beat Chicago Blackhawks, 4-0 in Game 7 to take title 4-3
- May 1 USSR launches Luna 5; later impacts on Moon
- May 2 Early Bird satellite goes into commercial service
- May 3 1st use of satellite TV, Today Show on Early Bird Satellite
- May 3 Cambodia drops diplomatic relations with the US
- May 3 Don Steele, begins a 40+ year radio career at KRTH (Los Angeles California)
- May 3 KTCI TV channel 17 in St. Paul-Minneapolis, MN (PBS) 1st broadcast
- May 3 Pulitzer prize awarded to Irwin Unger (Greenback Era)
Baseball Record
May 4 San Francisco Giants Willie Mays hit 512th career home run breaking Mel Ott's 29 year-old National League record, off of Los Angeles Dodgers Claude Osteen at Candlestick Park [1]
Sports History
May 6 Jerry Sloan is selected by the Baltimore Bullets as the fourth overall pick of the 1965 NBA draft
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