1965
Appearance
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 19th century – 20th century – 21st century |
Decades: | 1930s 1940s 1950s – 1960s – 1970s 1980s 1990s |
Years: | 1962 1963 1964 – 1965 – 1966 1967 1968 |
1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar.
Events
- February 18 – The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom
- June 15 - Victoria, Australia, coldest day on record -11.7°C at Omeo[1]
- July 16 – The Mont Blanc tunnel opens
- August 9 – Singapore proclaims its independence from the Malaysian Federation.
- September 8 – The hurricane "Betsy" is in Louisiana
- The Left Banke forms
- Pete Best attempts suicide
Births
- January 8 – John Catliff, Canadian footballer
- March 1 – Booker Huffman, American professional wrestler
- May 7 – Owen Hart, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 1999)
- July 31 – J. K. Rowling, writer
- August 25 – Mia Zapata, singer
- August 28 – Shania Twain, singer
- October 5 – Patrick Roy, Canadian retired ice hockey player
- November 20 – Ben Stiller, actor
Deaths
- January 4 – T. S. Eliot, poet
- January 24 – Winston Churchill, British politician
- February 2 – Nat Cole, jazz singer
- February 21 – Malcolm X, leader of the Black Muslim Movement
- February 23 – Stan Laurel, British comedian
- March 18 – King Farouk I of Egypt
Films released
- Help!, starring The Beatles
- Doctor Zhivago, starring Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, and Alec Guinness
- The Sound of Music
- The Greatest Story Ever Told
- Thunderball
- For a Few Dollars More
- The Great Race
- The Sons of Katie Elder
- Girl Happy
- The Legend of Blood Mountain
- Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie
- Report
- A Thousand Clowns
- Zorba the Greek
- Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
- The Ipcress File
- The Knack...And How to Get It, Cannes Grand Prize
- Alphaville, Golden Bear winner
- Cat Ballou
- The Shop on Main Street
- Juliet of the Spirits
- Darling
- Ship of Fools
- The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
- The Agony and the Ectasy
New books
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X – Alex Haley & Malcolm X
- The British Museum Is Falling Down – David Lodge
- Dune – Frank Herbert
- Georgy Girl – Margaret Forster
- The Green Berets – Robin Moore
- Hotel – Arthur Hailey
- The Looking-Glass War – John le Carré
- The Magus – John Fowles
- The Man with the Golden Gun – Ian Fleming
- Markings – Dag Hammarskjöld
- Morning's at Seven – Eric Malpass
- The Painted Bird – Jerzy Kosinski
- The Source – James A. Michener
- Those Who Love – Irving Stone
- The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch – Philip K. Dick
- Up the Down Staircase – Bel Kaufman
Hit songs
- "Nowhere to Run" – Martha Reeve and the Vandellas
Nobel Prizes
- Nobel Prize in Physics – Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Julian Schwinger, Richard P. Feynman
- Chemistry – Robert B. Woodward, American chemist (for his synthetic work with natural products)
- Medicine – François Jacob, André Lwoff, Jacques Monod
- Literature – Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, Russian novelist
- Peace – UNICEF
References
- ↑ "Rainfall and Temperature Extremes". bom.gov.au. 2011. Retrieved 5 August 2011.