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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.
•  February 9, 1965 – Vietnam War: The first United States combat troops are sent to South Vietnam.
•  March 18, 1965 – Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.
•  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.
•  May 12, 1965 – The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes on the Moon.
•  September 6, 1965 – War of 1965: India retaliates following Pakistan’s Operation Grand Slam which resulted in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 that ends in a stalemate and follows the signing of the Tashkent Declaration.
•  September 30, 1965 – The Lockheed L-100, the civilian version of the C-130 Hercules, is introduced.
•  November 24, 1965 – Joseph Désiré Mobutu seizes power in the Congo and becomes President; he rules the country (which he renames Zaire in 1971) for over 30 years, until being overthrown by rebels in 1997.
•  November 28, 1965 – Vietnam War: In response to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson’s call for “more flags” in Vietnam, Philippines President Elect Ferdinand Marcos announces he will send troops to help fight in South Vietnam.
•  December 15, 1965 – Gemini program: Gemini 6A, crewed by Wally Schirra and Thomas Stafford, is launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida. Four orbits later, it achieves the first space rendezvous, with Gemini 7.

•  January 16, 1965 – Jill Sobule, American singer-songwriter
•  February 2, 1965 – Carl Airey, English footballer
•  February 5, 1965 – Gheorghe Hagi, Romanian footballer
•  March 7, 1965 – Steve Beuerlein, American football player
•  May 3, 1965 – Mikhail Prokhorov, Russian self-made businessman
•  May 20, 1965 – Ted Allen, American television host
•  June 15, 1965 – Adam Smith, American politician
•  August 11, 1965 – Embeth Davidtz, American actress
•  September 13, 1965 – Jeffrey Ross, American comedian
•  November 4, 1965 – Pata, Japanese musician