Historical Events In 1965

Mar 03 Temptations' "My Girl" reaches #1

Mar 07 Bruce Taylor takes 5-86 in debut innings for New Zealand after ton

Mar 18 Soviet astronaut Alexei Leonov is first man to walk in space

Mar 21 Martin Luther King Jr begins march from Selma to Montgomery AL

Mar 05 Ernie Terrel beats Eddie Machen in 15 for heavyweight boxing title

Mar 19 Rembrandt's "Titus" sells for then record ƒ7,770,000

Mar 22 US confirms its troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong

Mar 25 Martin Luther King Jr led 25,000 to state capitol in Montgomery AL

Mar 18 Egypt's exiled King Farouk dies in Rome.

Mar 23 Moroccan army shoots on demonstrators, about 100 killed

Mar 20 Venkataraghavan takes 8-72 vs New Zealand at Delhi

Mar 18 Rolling Stones fined £5 each for public urination

Mar 17 The X-22A VTOL research aircraft made its first flight at Buffalo, N.Y.

Aug 05 Linda McGill becomes first Australian woman to swim the English Channel.

Aug 30 Casey Stengel announces his retirement after 55 years in baseball

Aug 11 Beatles movie "Help" opens in NYC

Aug 09 Singapore gains independence from Malaysia

Aug 06 Federal Voting Rights Act guarantees black voting rights

Aug 15 US National Guard called out to deal with race riots in Los Angeles

Aug 05 Cook Islands in South Pacific granted internal self-government by New Zealand

Aug 31 House of Reps joins Senate establish Dept of Housing & Urban Develop

Aug 29 Astronauts Cooper & Conrad complete 120 Earth orbits in Gemini 5

Aug 06 Nancy Carroll actress (Alice-Aldrich Family), dies at 60

Aug 14 Beatles tape an appearance for the Ed Sullivan Show

Aug 06 Beatles release "Help" album in UK

Aug 11 6 day insurrection starts in Watts section of Los Angeles

Aug 21 Gemini 5 launched into Earth orbit (2 astronauts)

Aug 09 Singapore independence

Aug 29 Gemini V, with astronauts Charles ("Pete") Conrad and Gordon Cooper aboard, splashes down after eight days of orbiting the Earth.

Aug 20 Rolling Stones release "Satisfaction" (their first #1 US hit)

Aug 02 Morley Safer's sends first Vietnam report indicating we are losing

Aug 30 Section of Allalin glacier wipes out construction site at Mattmark Dam near Saas-Fee, Switzerland

Aug 30 Casey Stengel retires from baseball after a career spanning 40 years.

Aug 12 Race riot in West Side of Chicago

Sep 06 India invades West Pakistan

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