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1965 Calendar

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•  January 26, 1965 – Hindi becomes the official language of India.
•  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 15, 1965 – President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to the Selma crisis, tells U.S. Congress “We shall overcome” while advocating the Voting Rights Act.
•  April 11, 1965 – The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states, killing 256 people.
•  August 5, 1965 – The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 begins as Pakistani soldiers cross the Line of Control dressed as locals.
•  August 9, 1965 – Singapore is expelled from Malaysia and becomes the first and only country to date to gain independence unwillingly.
•  September 11, 1965 – Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Army captures the town of Burki, just southeast of Lahore.
•  December 10, 1965 – The Grateful Dead’s first concert performance under this new name.
•  December 25, 1965 – The Yemeni Nasserite Unionist People’s Organisation is founded in Taiz

•  March 19, 1965 – Kevin F. Harris, American composer and graphic artist
•  March 24, 1965 – Peter Jacobson, American actor
•  May 3, 1965 – Mikhail Prokhorov, Russian self-made businessman
•  May 13, 1965 – José Antonio Delgado, Venezuelan mountaineer (d. 2006)
•  June 4, 1965 – Andrea Jaeger, American tennis player
•  July 3, 1965 – Shinya Hashimoto, Japanese wrestler (d. 2005)
•  July 10, 1965 – Scott McCarron, American professional golfer
•  August 12, 1965 – Peter Krause, American actor
•  August 18, 1965 – Koji Kikkawa, Japanese singer
•  December 20, 1965 – Robert Cavanah, Scottish actor