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1965 Calendar

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•  January 4, 1965 – United States President Lyndon B. Johnson proclaims his “Great Society” during his State of the Union address.
•  February 2, 1965 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Snake in Chinese astrology.
•  February 21, 1965 – Malcolm X is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City by members of the Nation of Islam.
•  April 6, 1965 – The British Government announces the cancellation of the TSR-2 aircraft project.
•  July 28, 1965 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces his order to increase the number of United States troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000.
•  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.
•  November 9, 1965 – 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.
•  November 11, 1965 – In Rhodesia (modern-day Zimbabwe), the white-minority government of Ian Smith unilaterally declares independence.
•  November 27, 1965 – Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned operations are to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam has to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000.
•  December 25, 1965 – The Yemeni Nasserite Unionist People’s Organisation is founded in Taiz

•  January 2, 1965 – Greg Swindell, American baseball player
•  March 4, 1965 – Andrew Collins, English journalist
•  March 12, 1965 – Liza Umarova, Chechen torch singer
•  March 29, 1965 – Jill Goodacre, American actress and model
•  May 23, 1965 – Tom Tykwer, German film director
•  June 13, 1965 – Lukas Ligeti, Austrian composer and drummer
•  August 26, 1965 – Jon Hensley, American actor
•  October 10, 1965 – Rebecca Pidgeon, American actress
•  November 29, 1965 – Ellen Cleghorne, American comedian
•  December 18, 1965 – Shawn Christian, American actor