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1965 Calendar

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•  February 2, 1965 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Snake in Chinese astrology.
•  April 29, 1965 – Pakistan’s Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) successfully launches its seventh rocket in its Rehber series.
•  June 14, 1965 – Nguyen Cao Ky became Prime Minister of South Vietnam at the head of a military junta; General Nguyen Van Thieu became the figurehead chief of state.
•  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, in an event later seen as marking 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.
•  October 28, 1965 – Construction on the St. Louis Arch is completed.
•  November 29, 1965 – The Canadian Space Agency launches the satellite Alouette 2.
•  December 7, 1965 – Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras simultaneously revoke mutual excommunications that had been in place since 1054.
•  December 31, 1965 – Jean-Bédel Bokassa, leader of the Central African Republic army, and his military officers begins a coup d'état against the government of President David Dacko.

•  January 8, 1965 – Michelle Forbes, American actress
•  January 22, 1965 – DJ Jazzy Jeff, American rapper and actor
•  April 7, 1965 – Alison Lapper, British artist
•  April 17, 1965 – William Mapother, American actor
•  April 20, 1965 – Adrian Fernández, Mexican racing driver
•  April 24, 1965 – Son Chang Min, South Korean actor
•  June 19, 1965 – Luc Donckerwolke, Belgian car designer
•  June 30, 1965 – Gary Pallister, English footballer
•  July 19, 1965 – Claus-Dieter Wollitz, German footballer
•  October 9, 1965 – Jimbo Fisher, American college football coach