1965 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1965?
- January 28, 1965 – The current design of the Flag of Canada is chosen by an act of Parliament.
- February 2, 1965 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Snake in Chinese astrology.
- 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.
- March 5, 1965 – March Intifada: A Leftist uprising erupts in Bahrain against British colonial presence.
- March 31, 1965 – An Iberia Airlines Convair 440 crashes into the sea on approach to Tangier, killing 47 of 51 occupants.
- April 26, 1965 – A Rolling Stones concert in London, Ontario is shut down by police after 15 minutes due to rioting.
- May 18, 1965 – Israeli spy Eli Cohen was hanged in Damascus, Syria.
- May 27, 1965 – Vietnam War: American warships begin the first bombardment of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam.
- June 7, 1965 – The Supreme Court of the United States hands down its decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples.
- June 9, 1965 – Civilian Prime Minister of South Vietnam Phan Huy Quat resigned after being unable to work with a junta led by Nguyen Cao Ky.
- July 26, 1965 – Full independence is granted to the Maldives.
- July 29, 1965 – Vietnam War: the first 4,000 101st Airborne Division paratroopers arrive in Vietnam, landing at Cam Ranh Bay.
- August 4, 1965 – The Constitution of Cook Islands comes into force, giving the Cook Islands self-governing status within New Zealand.
- August 6, 1965 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.
- August 11, 1965 – Race riots (the Watts riots) begin in the Watts area of Los Angeles, California.
- September 7, 1965 – China announces that it will reinforce its troops on the Indian border.
- October 1, 1965 – General Suharto rises to power after a coup that alleged to the Communist Party of Indonesia. In response, Suharto and his army massacre over a million Indonesians suspected of being communists. The killings of 7 army officers happened in the early hours of 1 October 1965.
- October 17, 1965 – The 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair closes after a two year run. More than 51 million people had attended the two-year event.
- October 21, 1965 – Comet Ikeya-Seki approaches perihelion, passing 450,000 kilometers from the sun.
- December 30, 1965 – Ferdinand Marcos becomes President of the Philippines.
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