Events Date 1965 October | History by KabAstro

Event of Interest

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

Baseball Record

Oct 3 Cubs lose season finale 6-3 to Pirates; Ernie Banks-Don Kessinger combine to tie MLB record of 3 triple plays in a season

Oct 3 Dual Melbourne Cup winning Australian jockey Pat Glennon rides French colt Sea Bird to victory in the Prix de l'Arc De Triomphe to claim an impressive double after the thoroughbred's English Derby win

Sports History

Oct 3 Whitey Ford notches win #232 in season ending 11-5 victory v Boston Red Sox; becomes Yankees' winningest pitcher

Pickwick

Oct 4 Cyril Ornadel and Leslie Bricusse's musical "Pickwick", based on Charles Dickens' novel "The Pickwick Papers', featuring Harry Secombe and Charlotte Rae, opens at 46th St Theater, NYC; runs for 56 performances

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

I Hear a Symphony

Oct 6 The Supremes release single "I Hear a Symphony"

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 the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
Oct 9 Beatles' "Yesterday" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 4 weeks

Ryder Cup

Oct 9 Ryder Cup, Royal Birkdale GC: US beats Great Britain 19½-12½; Byron Nelson non-playing American captain; Harry Weetman GB skipper

Oct 10 "Drat! - The Cat!" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 8 performances
Oct 10 "Vinland Map" is introduced by Yale University as being the first known map of America, drawn about 1440
Oct 10 The Supremes appear on the "The Ed Sullivan Show"

World Series

Oct 14 Baseball World Series: LA Dodgers edge Minnesota Twins, 2-0 in Game 7 at Metropolitan Stadium; Dodgers 3rd title since move to LA; MVP: LA pitcher Sandy Koufax

Oct 14 Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 80 km
Oct 15 WEMT (now WVII) TV channel 7 in Bangor, ME (ABC) begins broadcasting
Oct 16 "Drat! - The Cat!" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 8 performances

On A Clear Day You Can See Forever

Oct 17 Burton Lane and Alan Jay Lerner's musical "On A Clear Day You Can See Forever", starring Barbara Harris and John Cullum, opens at he Mark Hellinger Theatre, NYC; runs for 280 performances

Oct 17 WBMG TV channel 42 in Birmingham, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting

NHL All-Star Game

Oct 20 19th NHL All-Star Game, Montreal Forum, Montreal, QC: All-Stars beat Montreal Canadiens, 5-2; MVP: Henri Richard, Montreal, C

Oct 20 Beatles receive a gold record for the single "Yesterday"
Oct 20 Mass arrests of communists in Indonesia
Oct 21 Comet Ikeya-Seki approaches perihelion, passing 450,000 kilometers from the sun.
Oct 21 KTWU TV channel 11 in Topeka, KS (PBS) begins broadcasting
Oct 21 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Robert B Woodward
Oct 21 Vivian Beaumont Theater (NYC) opens

Music History

Oct 24 Benjamin Britten's "Voices for Today" premieres

F1 World Champion

Oct 24 Jim Clark in a Lotus is forced to retire from season-ending Mexican Grand Prix at Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez with engine trouble; American Richie Ginther is race winner and Clark claims his second F1 World Drivers Championship

Get Off of My Cloud

Oct 25 The Rolling Stones release music single "Get Off of My Cloud"

Oct 26 Queen Elizabeth decorates The Beatles with medals making them members Order of the British Empire (MBE) at Buckingham Palace
Oct 26 Sylvia Likens tortured by teen girl gang
Oct 27 WCFT-TV channel 33 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama (CBS) begins broadcasting
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