Historical Events in 1965 (Part 3)

Events 401 - 597 of 597

• Sep 9 Tibet is made an autonomous region of China
• Sep 10 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Sep 10 Phillies 10,000th game to a decision since 1900, Phils beat Cards
• Sep 10 WUND TV channel 2 in Columbia, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting
• Sep 11 Beatles' "Help!" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks
• Sep 11 Braves 2nd straight one-hitter against the Mets
• Sep 11 The 1st Cavalry Division of the United States Army arrives in Vietnam

• Sep 12 Hurricane Betsy strikes Florida & Louisiana kills 75
• Sep 12 WCEE TV channel 23 in Rockford, IL (CBS) begins broadcasting

• Sep 13 Beatles win their 1st Grammy, for Best Group of 1964
• Sep 13 Today Show's 1st totally color broadcast

• Sep 14 4th meeting of 2nd Vatican council opened
• Sep 14 Western sitcom "F-Troop" premieres in the US on ABC
• Sep 15 US TV series "Lost in Space" premieres

• Sep 16 Boston Red Sox Dave Morehead no-hits Cleveland Indians, 2-0

• Sep 16 Sobibor trial opens in Hagen, West Germany
• Sep 17 CBS premiere of WWII sitcom "Hogan's Heroes"
• Sep 17 WPHL TV channel 17 in Philadelphia, PA (IND) begins broadcasting

• Sep 19 Erhards CDU wins West German parliament elections
• Sep 20 WXXW (now WYCC) TV channel 20 in Chicago, IL (PBS) begins broadcasting
• Sep 21 O Kommissarova (USSR) sets women's longest parachute jump (46,250')
• Sep 21 Singapore admitted as part of the United Nations.
• Sep 22 India and Pakistan cease-fire goes into effect, ending the Indo-Pakistani War
• Sep 24 Belgium Victor Leemans elected chairman of European Parliament
• Sep 24 Saudi Arabian & Egyptian accord over Yemen
• Sep 24 Stefan Stefanopoulos forms Greek government

• Sep 25 Beatle cartoon show begins in US
• Sep 25 Children find trunk with corpse in Amsterdam canal
• Sep 26 Minnesota gains its 1st AL pennant by defeating Washington, 2-1
• Sep 28 Jack McKay in X-15 reaches 90 km
• Sep 28 Taal Volcano explodes on Luzon in the Philippines, killing an estimated 100 people
• Sep 29 Phillies catcher Pat Corrales sets record by reaching base twice on catcher's interference in one game & 6 times in one season
• Sep 29 St L Cards Charlie Johnson passes for 6 touchdowns vs Cleve (49-13)
• Sep 29 WLVT TV channel 39 in Allentown, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting

• Oct 1 Failed coup under lt col Untung in Indonesia
• Oct 1 France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
• Oct 2 NY Yankees pitcher Mel Stottlemyre wins game #20

• 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

• 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 the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• Oct 9 Beatles' "Yesterday" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 4 weeks
• 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"
• 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 17 WBMG TV channel 42 in Birmingham, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 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

• 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

• Oct 30 Fireworks explosions kill 50 in Cartagena, Colombia
• Nov 1 Ernie Terrell retains WBA heavyweight boxing title; beats Canadian George Chuvalo in 15 round points decision in Toronto
• Nov 1 Promoter Bill Graham books his 1st concert at Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, a benefit for political satirists 'The San Francisco Mime Troupe"
• Nov 1 Trackless trolley plunged into Nile River drowning 74 (Cairo Egypt)

• Nov 3 Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax is named Cy Young Award winner by a unanimous vote and for a third time; posts 26-8 record, 1.73 ERA and record-shattering 382 strikeouts
• Nov 4 Lee Breedlove sets female land speed record (308.56 MPH) in Utah

• Nov 8 British Indian Ocean Territory formed
• Nov 8 US soap opera "Days of Our Lives" premieres
• Nov 8 Vietnam War: US, Australian and New Zealand forces launch Operation Hump, a search-and-destroy operation near Bien Hoa in South Vietnam
• Nov 9 1st NY Knick game postponed (black-out) vs St Louis
• Nov 9 Hurricane hits north east US/Canada
• Nov 9 Jay DeFeo's monumental painting "The Rose" (1958-66), layered with nearly two thousand pounds of paint removed from the artist's San Francisco apartment [1]
• Nov 9 San Francisco Giants outfielder Willie Mays named NL MVP
• Nov 9 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.
• Nov 10 Manneke Pis statue stolen in Brussels
• Nov 11 Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith signs Unilateral Declaration of Independence, proclaiming independence from Britain
• Nov 11 William Alfred's "Hogan's Goat" premieres in NYC

• Nov 12 General strike in Morocco against disappearance of Ben Barka
• Nov 12 Mad Dog Vachon beats Crusher in Denver, to become NWA champ
• Nov 12 Venera 2 launched by Soviet Union toward Venus
• Nov 13 "Yarmouth Castle" burns and sinks off Bahamas, killing 89
• Nov 13 Director Kenneth Tynan says the word "F*ck" on BBC
• Nov 14 George Abbott Theater (Adelphi, 54 St) at 152 W 54th NYC, demolished
• Nov 14 KCST TV channel 39 in San Diego, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting
• Nov 14 US government sends 90,000 soldiers to Vietnam
• Nov 15 Craig Breedlove sets land speed record (600.601 mph-966.57 kph)
• Nov 16 Venera 3 launched, 1st to land on another planet (crashes into Venus)
• Nov 16 Walt Disney launches Epcot Center: Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow
• Nov 17 General Meeting of UN refuses admittance of People's Republic of China
• Nov 17 The NVA ambushes American troops of the 7th Cavalry at Landing Zone Albany in the la Drang Valley, almost wiping them out
• Nov 17 William Eckert is unanimously elected commissioner of baseball
• Nov 18 Twins SS Zoilo Versalles is named AL MVP
• Nov 19 ABC radio begins weekly "Vietnam Update" report
• Nov 19 Kellogg's Pop Tarts pastries created
• Nov 20 UN Security council calls for boycott of Rhodesia
• Nov 20 WCNY TV channel 24 in Syracuse, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
• Nov 21 1st freighter arrives in Ashdod Port, Israel
• Nov 21 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk, USSR

• Nov 23 31st Heisman Trophy Award: Mike Garrett, Southern Cal (RB)
• Nov 23 The Beatles film promotional video clips for 5 of their songs at Twickenham Film Studios to provide to television outlets (in lieu of live appearances)
• Nov 23 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

• Nov 25 Congo military coup under Gen Mobutu, President Kasavubu overthrown
• Nov 26 Dodgers 2nd baseman Jim Lefebvre is voted NL Rookie of Year

• Nov 27 15-25,000 demonstrate against war in Vietnam in Washington, D.C.
• Nov 27 1966 NFL Draft: University of Texas linebacker Tommy Nobis #1 pick by Atlanta Falcons
• Nov 28 Browns' Leroy Kelly sets club record for most punt return yds (109)
• Nov 28 LPGA Titleholders Championship Women's Golf, Augusta CC: Kathy Whitworth wins by 10 shots from Peggy Wilson for her first major title
• Nov 29 Dale Cummings does 14,118 consecutive sit-ups
• Dec 1 Airlift of refugees from Cuba to US begins
• Dec 1 South Africa's government says children of white fathers are white
• Dec 3 "Rubber Soul", the sixth studio album by the Beatles, is released in the United Kingdom
• Dec 3 The Beatles begin final UK concert tour in Glasgow, Scotland
• Dec 3 USSR launches Luna 8; it crashes on the Moon
• Dec 4 2 passenger planes collide above Danbury, Connecticut, 4 die
• Dec 4 2nd NY Knicks game postponed (due to death of opponent 76ers' owner)

• Dec 5 Brunswick Records releases "My Generation", the debut album of British rock group The Who, in the UK and Australia
• Dec 6 2 trucks crash into a crowd of dancers in Sotouboua Togo, kills 125
• Dec 6 Pakistan's Islamic Ideology Advisory Committee recommends that Islamic Studies be made a compulsory subject for Muslim students from primary to graduate level.
• Dec 7 Roman Catholic Pope Paul VI and Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously lift mutual excommunications that led to the split of the two churches in 1054 in the Great Schism.
• Dec 8 Abe Burrows' play "Cactus Flower" premieres in NYC
• Dec 8 Nikolai Podgorny succeeds Mikojan as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet
• Dec 8 Pope Paul VI closes final session of the Second Vatican Council - an influential ecumenical council that significantly modernized church practices

• Dec 9 Nikolai Podgorny replaces Anastas Mikoyan as president of Soviet Praesidium
• Dec 10 Dutch ends economic boycott of Rhodesia
• Dec 10 Test Cricket debut of Doug Walters v England at the Gabba

• Dec 12 Doug Walters makes maiden Test ton in 1st Test, goes on to 155
• Dec 12 The Beatles' last concert in Great Britain at Capitol Theatre in Cardiff, Wales
• Dec 12 Vivian Beaumont Theater opens at 65th St & Amsterdam Ave NYC
• Dec 13 Algerian president Boumedienne visits Moscow
• Dec 15 3rd cyclone of year kills 15,000 at the mouths of the Ganges River in Bangladesh

• Dec 15 Gemini 6 launched; makes 1st rendezvous in space (with Gemini 7)
• Dec 15 William Eckert replaces Ford Frick as 4th Commissioner of Baseball
• Dec 16 Gemini 6 returns to Earth
• Dec 16 Pioneer 6 launched into solar orbit
• Dec 16 Taufa'ahau Tupou IV becomes King of Tonga

• Dec 17 British government proclaims ends oil-embargo against Rhodesia
• Dec 17 David Levy begins his search for comets
• Dec 17 Dutch government shuts Limburgs coal mine
• Dec 17 Largest newspaper-Sunday NY Times at 946 pages (50 cents)
• Dec 18 Frank Borman and Jim Lovell splash down in the Atlantic after two week Gemini 7 mission
• Dec 18 Kenneth LeBel jumps 17 barrels on ice skates

• Dec 22 Belgian government shuts 6 coal mines
• Dec 22 Great Britain sets national maximum road speed at 70 miles per hour
• Dec 22 Radio Mil (Domincan Republic) transmitter blown up
• Dec 25 The Yemeni Nasserite Unionist People's Organisation is founded in Taiz

• Dec 26 AFL Championship, Balboa Stadium San Diego: Buffalo Bills beat San Diego Chargers 23-0; repeat previous year's win over SD

• Dec 28 Ballon d'Or: Benfica striker Eusébio wins award for best European football player; first Portuguese national to win, and still only Benfica player

• Dec 29 CBS purchases NFL TV rights for 1966-68 at $18.8 million per year
• Dec 29 The Supremes release single "My World is Empty Without You"
• Dec 30 Ferdinand Marcos inaugurated as President of the Philippines

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