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1965 Calendar

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•  January 1, 1965 – The People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan is founded in Kabul, Afghanistan.
•  January 28, 1965 – The current design of the Flag of Canada is chosen by an act of Parliament.
•  February 1, 1965 – The Hamilton River in Labrador, Canada is renamed the Churchill River in honour of Winston Churchill.
•  February 2, 1965 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Snake in Chinese astrology.
•  March 21, 1965 – Martin Luther King, Jr. leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
•  April 25, 1965 – Teenage sniper Michael Andrew Clark kills three and wounds six others shooting from a hilltop along Highway 101 just south of Santa Maria, California.
•  May 18, 1965 – Israeli spy Eli Cohen was hanged in Damascus, Syria.
•  September 11, 1965 – Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Army captures the town of Burki, just southeast of Lahore.
•  November 16, 1965 – Venera program: the Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe toward Venus, that will be the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet.
•  December 1, 1965 – The Border Security Force is formed in India as a special force to guard the borders.

•  February 19, 1965 – Leroy, American musician (Smash Mouth)
•  April 14, 1965 – Tom Dey, American film director
•  June 11, 1965 – Manuel Uribe, Mexican one-time world’s heaviest man
•  June 17, 1965 – Dan Jansen, American speed skater
•  June 30, 1965 – Mitch Richmond, American basketball player
•  September 25, 1965 – Dave Rundle, South African cricketer
•  October 1, 1965 – Chris Reason, Australian journalist
•  November 3, 1965 – Gert Heerkes, Dutch footballcoach
•  November 15, 1965 – Stefan Pfeiffer, German swimmer
•  November 19, 1965 – Douglas Henshall, Scottish actor