1965 Events

1965 Batmobile is created
Unfortunately, the excesses of the Futura seemed woefully at odds with the design ethics of the Sixties. And so it happened that the unwanted car ended up in the possession of George Bar...
1965 Electric Prunes are formed
Psychedelic garage rock band formed in 1965 in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley. They reached their highest charting success in the USA in 1966 with I Had To Much to Dream Last Night (pea...
1965 Ford GT40 is First Produced
The Ford GT40 was a high performance sports car and winner of the 24 hours of Le Mans four times in a row, from 1966 to 1969 (in 1967 with a different body, though). It was built to win l...
1965 Ford LTD is First Produced
The Ford LTD was a car model name that has been used by the Ford Motor Company in North America. The LTD designation is considered by some an abbreviation of "Luxury Trim Decor" and by o...
1965 Ford Transit is First Produced
The Ford Transit is a range of panel vans, minibuses, and pickup trucks, produced by the Ford Motor Company in Europe (including Turkey). The Transit has been the best-selling light comm...
1965 'Fox In Socks' is Published
When it comes to rhyming and tongue twisters, Dr. Seuss is without doubt the master in his field. His children’s book, titled Fox in Socks, portrays an energetic character who continually...
1965 Gateway Arch in St. Louis Completed
The Gateway Arch, also known as the Gateway to the West, is part of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in St. Louis, Missouri. Built as a monument to the westward expansion of the ...
1965 'I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew' is Published
This tale shows readers that while running away from one’s problems may appear an attractive solution, it is no guarantee that trouble will not be encountered elsewhere. We learn that con...
1965 Kellogg's Apple Jacks Cereal First Appears
Apple Jacks is a brand of cereal produced by Kellogg's and targeted mainly at children. It was introduced to the U.S. in 1965. The product is described by Kellogg's as a "crunchy, sweeten...
1965 Mercedes-Benz W108/W109 is First Produced
The Mercedes-Benz W108/W109 model series was a large luxury car line built by Mercedes-Benz from 1965 through 1972. The W108/W109 was a replacement for the higher end of the "Fintail" sed...
1965 Mercedes-Benz W114 is First Produced
The Mercedes-Benz W114 (and similar W115) are smaller sedans and coupes first introduced within the 1968 Mercedes-Benz model line up. The 1968 W114/W115, the S-Class cars, and the 280SL w...
1965 Nissan Homy is First Produced
The Nissan Homy was built and sold by the Prince Motor Company before the merger of Nissan in 1965 and the Homy was the first vehicle to be acquired by Nissan. After the merger of 1966 in...
1965 Nissan President is First Prodcued
The Nissan President is a Japanese luxury limousine introduced by Nissan in the 1960s and sold only in the Japanese market. It is a luxury sedan specifically aimed to the Japanese market ...
1965 Pink Floyd is formed
Pink Floyd are an English rock band who initially earned recognition for their psychedelic and space rock music, and later, as they evolved, for their progressive rock music. Pink Floyd a...
1965 Porsche 912 is First Produced
The Porsche 912 is a sports car that was manufactured by Porsche of Germany between 1965 and 1969 as their entry-level model. The 912 is a nimble-handling compact performance four-seat ve...
1965
to 1966
Ronald Reagan Hosts "Death Valley Days"
Death Valley Days is an American radio and television anthology about true stories of the old American West, particularly the Death Valley area. It was created in 1930 by Ruth Woodman and...
1965 Ronald Reagan Publishes His Autobiography, "Where's the Rest of Me?"
In the film, Reagan's character, Drake McHugh, has both legs amputated by a sadistic surgeon, played by Coburn. When he wakes from anesthesia, he says, "Where's the rest of me?" Reagan us...
1965 Rosa Parks hired as a secretary to US Representative John Conyers
After her arrest, Parks became an icon of the Civil Rights Movement but suffered hardships as a result. She lost her job at the department store, and her husband quit his job after his bo...
1965 "The Hill" Is Released
The Hill is a 1965 film set in a British army prison in North Africa in World War II. It stars Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen, Ossie Davis, Ian Hendry, Alfred Lynch and Michael R...
1965 University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration Completed
SSA was designed by one of Chicago's most celebrated architects, Mies van der Rohe and was completed in 1965. During this period, the University was expanding and architecture on the sout...
1965 U.S. President Lyndon Johnson's Science Advisory Committee issues report on global warming
The report of the Environmental Pollution Panel, President's Science Advisory Committee, dated November 1965, is entitled "Restoring the Quality of Our Environment" (Government Printing O...
1965 "Where No Man Has Gone Before", Star Trek: The Original Series' second pilot episode
"Where No Man Has Gone Before" is the second pilot episode of the television series Star Trek (later known as Star Trek: The Original Series). It was produced in 1965 after the first pilo...
1965 Jan "Repulsion" Is Released
Repulsion is a 1965 film directed by Roman Polanski on a scenario by Gerard Brach and Roman Polanski. It was Polanski's first English language film, and was filmed in Britain, as such bei...
1965 Jan 4 Gerald Ford is Voted the House Minority Leader
In 1964, Democratic President Lyndon Johnson led a landslide victory for his party, securing another term as president and taking 36 seats from Republicans in the House of Representatives...
1965 Jan 15 Rolling Stones Release 'The Rolling Stones No. 2'
The Rolling Stones No. 2 is the second UK album by The Rolling Stones released in 1965 following the massive success of 1964's debut The Rolling Stones. Not surprisingly, The Rolling Ston...
1965 Jan 20 Lyndon Baines Johnson, the 36th president of the United States, is inaugurated for his first full term
President Johnson had first taken the oath of office on board Air Force One on November 22, 1963, the day President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. The election of 1964 was a landsli...
1965 Jan 24 Winston Churchill Dies
The final decade of Churchill's life has been described as a "long sunset." He continued to be feted and honored, and he enjoyed a final visit to the White House in 1959. During this peri...
1965 Feb Operation Flaming Dart
Operation Flaming Dart was a U.S. military operation, conducted in two parts, during the Vietnam War. United States President Lyndon B. Johnson in February 1965 ordered a series of rep...
1965 Feb 8 Boston College defeats Harvard, 5-4
1965 Feb 8 Boston University defeats Northeastern, 5-4
1965 Feb 13 The Rolling Stones Release 'The Rolling Stones, Now!'
The Rolling Stones, Now! is the third American studio album by The Rolling Stones, released in 1965 by their initial American distributor, London Records. The album contained seven tra...
1965 Feb 14 Malcolm X's house is firebombed
In June 1964, the Nation of Islam sued to reclaim Malcolm X's residence in Queens, New York, which they claimed to own. The suit was successful, and Malcolm X was ordered to vacate. On Fe...
1965 Feb 15 Boston College defeats Boston University, 5-4
1965 Feb 15 Northeastern defeats Harvard, 3-1
1965 Feb 16 Vung Ro Bay Incident
The Vung Ro Bay Incident refers to the discovery of a 100-ton North Vietnamese naval trawler unloading munitions on a beach in South Vietnam's Vung Ro Bay on 16 February 1965. The inciden...
1965 Feb 21 Malcolm X Assassinated in Manhattan's Audubon Ballroom
On February 21, 1965, in Manhattan's Audubon Ballroom, Malcolm X began to speak to a meeting of the Organization of Afro-American Unity when a disturbance broke out in the crowd of 400. A...
1965 Feb 23
to 1965 Feb 27
 Malcolm X's Funeral
The number of mourners who came to the public viewing in Harlem's Unity Funeral Home from February 23 through February 26 was estimated to be between 14,000 and 30,000. The funeral of Mal...
1965 Mar "Operation Crossbow" Is Released
Operation Crossbow (later re-released as The Great Spy Mission) is a 1965 spy thriller and World War II film, made from a story from Duilio Coletti and Vittoriano Petrilli and filmed at M...
1965 Mar 2 Operation Rolling Thunder
Operation Rolling Thunder was the title of a gradual and sustained U.S. 2nd Air Division (later Seventh Air Force), U.S. Navy, and Republic of Vietnam Air Force (VNAF) aerial bombardment ...
1965 Mar 2 "The Sound Of Music" Is Released
Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music is a 1965 musical film directed by Robert Wise and starring Julie Andrews in the lead role. The film is based on the Broadway musical The Soun...
1965 Mar 7 "Bloody Sunday", First March from Selma to Montgomery
On March 7, demonstrators start a 54-mile march in response to an activist's murder. They are protesting his death and the unfair state laws and local violence that keep African America...
1965 Mar 9 Martin Luther King, Jr. Leads Second March from Selma to Montgomery
Immediately after "Bloody Sunday", Martin Luther King Jr. began organizing a second march to be held on Tuesday, March 9, 1965, calling for people across the country to join him. Hundreds...
1965 Mar 11 Jesse Jackson Jr. is Born
Born Jesse Louis Jackson, Jr. on March 11, 1965, in Greenville, SC; son of Jesse Louis (famous civil rights activist) and Jacqueline (Davis) Jackson (a homemaker)
1965 Mar 20 UCLA Beats Michigan in Final Four
The 1965 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 23 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball....
1965 Mar 21 Martin Luther King, Jr. Leads Third March from Selma, Successfully Reaching Montgomery
The five-day, four-night march began on March 21, and covered a 54-mile (87 km) route along U.S. Route 80 (in Alabama known as the "Jefferson Davis Highway"). Protected by 2,000 soldiers ...
1965 Apr 3 U.S. Military Launches Operation Steel Tiger
Operation Steel Tiger was a covert U.S. 2nd Air Division, later Seventh Air Force and U.S. Navy Task Force 77 aerial interdiction effort targeted against the infiltration of People's Army...
1965 Apr 5 37th Academy Awards
The 37th Academy Awards honored film achievements of 1964. For the first time, an award was presented in the field of makeup. All four acting awards went to non-American actors, something...
1965 Apr 8
to 1965 Apr 11
 Jack Nicklaus wins the 29th Masters Tournament
Jack Nicklaus scored a then Tournament record 17-under-par 271 to win his second Masters title. Nicklaus' record total for four rounds (equaled in 1976 by Raymond Floyd) and winning margi...
1965 Apr 11
to 1965 Apr 12
 Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak of 1965
A wide outbreak of 37 tornadoes killed 256 people, mostly in Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana on Palm Sunday 1965. This was deadliest tornado outbreak in 33 years in the United States and has ...
1965 Apr 17 First Public Picketing for Queer Civil Rights in front of the White House
Originally a response to Cuban and US government harassment of homosexuals, the new militant gay tactic of picketing created by MSW expanded to the Pentagon, the Civil Service Commission,...