1965 Calendar
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1965 Historical Event(s)
- 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 7, 1965 – Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers are forcefully broken up in Selma, Alabama.
- March 31, 1965 – An Iberia Airlines Convair 440 crashes into the sea on approach to Tangier, killing 47 of 51 occupants.
- 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 9, 1965 – Hurricane Betsy makes its second landfall near New Orleans, Louisiana, leaving 76 dead and $1.42 billion ($10–12 billion in 2005 dollars) in damages, becoming the first hurricane to top $1 billion in unadjusted damages.
- September 21, 1965 – Gambia, Maldives and Singapore are admitted as members of the United Nations.
- November 11, 1965 – In Rhodesia (modern-day Zimbabwe), the white-minority government of Ian Smith unilaterally declares independence.
- December 6, 1965 – Pakistan’s Islamic Ideology Advisory Committee recommends that Islamic Studies be made a compulsory subject for Muslim students from primary to graduate level.
Who Were Born On 1965?
- January 28, 1965 – Lynda Boyd, American actress
- March 29, 1965 – Jill Goodacre, American actress and model
- April 25, 1965 – Simon Fowler, English musician (Ocean Colour Scene)
- June 7, 1965 – Billy Reeves, English songwriter and BBC radio presenter
- July 3, 1965 – Connie Nielsen, Danish actress
- July 9, 1965 – Frank Bello, American bassist (Anthrax)
- September 19, 1965 – Helen Duval, Dutch adult movie actress
- November 9, 1965 – Bryn Terfel, Welsh baritone
- November 10, 1965 – Eddie Irvine, Northern Irish racing driver
- December 19, 1965 – Jessica Steen, American actress