Notable Historical Events - 1965
1965 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
International Cooperation Year begins |
Jan 1 |
Palestinian al-Fatah organization forms |
Jan 1 |
The People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan is founded in Kabul. |
Jan 1 |
American actor George Murphy begins his term as Senator of California |
Jan 2 |
Ayub Khan elected president of Pakistan |
Jan 2 |
Martin Luther King Jr. begins a drive to register black voters |
Jan 2 |
NY Jets sign quarterback Joe Namath |
Jan 2 |
Obverse design of all Canadian coins is changed to depict present-day |
Jan 4 |
LBJ's "Great Society" State of the Union Address |
Jan 6 |
Geoff Boycott takes 3-47 against South Africa, his best Test bowling |
Jan 7 |
France announces it will convert $150 million of its currency to gold |
Jan 8 |
Senator Everett Dirksen introduces a bill to make marigold the American natonal flower (doesn't pass) |
Jan 8 |
Star of India returned to American Museum of Natural History |
Jan 9 |
Beatles' 65 album goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks |
Jan 10 |
Bollingen prize for poetry awarded to Horace Gregory |
Jan 10 |
NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 34-14 |
Jan 10 |
WKBD TV channel 50 in Detroit, MI (IND) begins broadcasting |
Jan 12 |
"Hullabaloo" premieres on NBC-TV |
Jan 12 |
At 10:58 am PST burn up a nuclear rocket in Nevada |
Jan 15 |
Rock group Who releases 1st album "I Can't Explain" |
Jan 15 |
Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor Mich forms |
Jan 15 |
Soviet underground nuclear test creates the atomic lake Chagan, Kazakhstan |
Jan 16 |
"Oh What a Lovely War" closes at Broadhurst NYC after 125 performances |
Jan 16 |
"Outer Limits" last airs on ABC-TV |
Jan 16 |
AFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 38-14 |
Jan 16 |
Searchers' "Love Potion #9" peaks at #3 |
Jan 16 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Jan 18 |
H L de Vries appointed Dutch governor of Suriname |
Jan 20 |
Beatles appear on Shindig (ABC-TV) |
Jan 20 |
Byrds record "Mr Tambourine Man" |
Jan 20 |
JPL proposes modified Apollo flight to fly around Mars & return |
Jan 20 |
Generalissimo Francisco Franco meets with Jewish representatives to discuss legitimizing Jewish communities in Spain |
Jan 21 |
Persians premier Ali Mansoer injured |
Jan 22 |
US launches TIROS 9 weather satellite |
Jan 23 |
"King Family Show" (musical variety) premieres on ABC TV |
Jan 23 |
BPAA All-Star Tournament won by Dick Weber |
Jan 23 |
Boston Celtic center Bill Russell misses all 14 shots in loss to Philadelphia Warriors led by Wilt Chamberlain |
Jan 26 |
South Vietnam milt coup under general Nguyen Khanh |
Jan 27 |
1st ground station-to-aircraft radio communication via satellite |
Jan 27 |
Ground breaking for "Dragon Gateway" at Grant Avenue |
Jan 28 |
The Who make their 1st appearance on British TV |
Jan 30 |
"The Name Game" by Shirley Ellis hits #3 |
Jan 30 |
State funeral of Sir Winston Churchill |
Jan 31 |
Pud Galvin elected to baseball Hall of Fame |
Feb 1 |
Dutch Queen Juliana opens Brienenoord Bridge in Rotterdam |
Feb 1 |
Martin Luther King Jr. & 700 demonstrators arrested in Selma Ala |
Feb 1 |
Peter Jennings, 26, becomes anchor of ABC's nightly news |
Feb 1 |
NL adopts emergency team replacement plan to restock any club struck by disaster |
Feb 2 |
Joe Ortons "Loot," premieres in Brighton |
Feb 3 |
105 USAF cadets resigned for cheating on exams |
Feb 3 |
Geraldine McCullough wins Widener Gold Medal for Sculpture |
Feb 3 |
Orbiting Solar Observatory 2 launches into Earth orbit (552/636 km) |
Feb 3 |
Braves offer Milwaukee $500,000 to terminate their lease a year earlier, the proposal is turned down |
Feb 4 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Feb 5 |
Beursschouwburg opens in Brussels |
Feb 6 |
"Kelly" opens & closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC |
Feb 6 |
Righteous Brothers "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" hits #1 |
Feb 7 |
George Harrison has his tonsils removed |
Feb 7 |
Operations begin at Grupo Folklorico Antiyano on Curacao |
Feb 7 |
US begins regular bombing & strafing of N Vietnam |
Feb 7 |
WVIZ TV channel 25 in Cleveland, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Feb 8 |
Eastern DC-7B crashes into Atlantic off Jones Beach NJ, kills 84 |
Feb 8 |
Supremes release "Stop In the Name of Love" |
Feb 11 |
Braves propose to pay 5 cents from each ticket to bring a new team to Milwaukee |
Feb 12 |
KHFI (now KBVO) TV channel 42 in Austin, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Feb 12 |
Nuclear test at Pacific Ocean |
Feb 13 |
Peggy Fleming, 16, wins ladies senior figure skating title |
Feb 13 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming |
Feb 13 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Gary Visconti |
Feb 15 |
Canada replaces Union Jack flag with Maple Leaf |
Feb 15 |
John Lennon passes his driving test |
Feb 15 |
Maple Leaf becomes official flag of Canada |
Feb 16 |
"Baker Street" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 313 performances |
Feb 16 |
Pegasus 1 launched to detect micro-meteors |
Feb 17 |
US Ranger 8 launched, will transmit 7,137 lunar pictures |
Feb 17 |
US-Japan baseball relations suspended over Masanori Murakami dispute |
Feb 18 |
"Fade Out-Fade In" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 72 perfs |
Feb 18 |
27 copper miners die in avalanche, Granduc Mountain, BC |
Feb 18 |
Frank Gifford announces his retirement from football for broadcasting |
Feb 18 |
The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom. |
Feb 19 |
NFL adds 6th official |
Feb 20 |
Beatles record "That Means a Lot" |
Feb 20 |
Ranger 8 makes hard landing on the Moon, returns photos, other data |
Feb 20 |
Turkish government of Uerguplu forms |
Feb 21 |
Rights activist Malcolm X is shot dead by Nation of Islam followers at Audubon Ballroom in New York |
Feb 22 |
USSR launches Kosmos 57 into earth orbit (Voskhod Test) |
Feb 23 |
Constance Baker Motley elected Manhattan Borough president |
Feb 24 |
Beatles begin filming "Help" in Bahamas |
Feb 24 |
East German president Ulbricht visits Egypt |
Feb 26 |
Dutch government of Marijnen falls |
Feb 26 |
West Germany ceases military aid to Tanzania |
Feb 27 |
"High Spirits" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 375 performances |
Feb 27 |
Dutch Marijnen government resigns |
Feb 27 |
France performs Underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria |
Mar 1 |
Australia suspends champ swimmer Dawn Fraser for 10-yrs for misconduct |
Mar 1 |
Gas explosion kills 28 in apartment complex (La Salle, Quebec) |
Mar 1 |
WPSX TV channel 3 in Clearfield, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Mar 2 |
"Sound Of Music" opens |
Mar 2 |
Montcalm Community College in Sidney Mich, founded |
Mar 2 |
One of the most popular musical films of all time, "The Sound of Music", starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, is released |
Mar 3 |
Temptations' "My Girl" reaches #1 |
Mar 3 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Mar 3 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Mar 4 |
David Attenbrough became the new controller of BBC2 |
Mar 5 |
1st performance of Walter Piston's 8th Symphony |
Mar 5 |
Ernie Terrel beats Eddie Machen in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
Mar 5 |
March Intifada: A Leftist uprising erupts in Bahrain against British colonial presence. |
Mar 6 |
"How to Succeed in Business" closes at 46th St NYC after 1415 perfs |
Mar 6 |
1st nonstop helicopter crossing of North America, JR Willford |
Mar 6 |
Bruce Taylor hits 105 for NZ v India in 1st Test Cricket innings |
Mar 7 |
Alabama state troopers & 600 black protestors clash in Selma |
Mar 7 |
Bruce Taylor takes 5-86 in debut innings for NZ after ton |
Mar 7 |
Christian-democrats win parliament in Chile |
Mar 8 |
1st US combat forces arrive in Vietnam (3,500 Marines) |
Mar 10 |
Dutch Princess Margriet & Pieter van Vollenhoven get engaged |
Mar 11 |
Indonesia President Sukarno accepts qualifications of Suharto |
Mar 13 |
Beatles' "Eight Days a Week" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks |
Mar 13 |
Jeff Beck replaces Eric Clapton of the Yardbirds |
Mar 14 |
Israeli cabinet approves diplomatic relations with West Germany |
Mar 15 |
LBJ asks congress to ensure everybody's right to vote |
Mar 15 |
T.G.I. Friday's 1st restaurant opens in NYC |
Mar 15 |
WMFE TV channel 24 in Orlando, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Mar 17 |
Beatles announce their film is named "8 Arms to Hold on to You" (Help) |
Mar 18 |
"Do I Hear a Waltz?" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 220 performances |
Mar 18 |
Rolling Stones fined £5 each for public urination |
Mar 18 |
USSR launches Voshkod 2; Alexei Leonov makes 1st spacewalk (20 mins) |
Mar 18 |
Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space. |
Mar 19 |
Indonesia nationalizes all foreign oil companies |
Mar 19 |
Rembrandt's "Titus" sells for then record 7,770,000 guilders |
Mar 19 |
Stoica becomes president & Ceausescu party leader of Romania |
Mar 19 |
The wreck of the SS Georgiana, valued at over $50,000,000 and said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, was discovered by then teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence exactly 102 years after its destruction. |
Mar 20 |
27th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Michigan 91-80 |
Mar 20 |
Venkataraghavan takes 8-72 v NZ at Delhi |
Mar 20 |
Civil and Women's Rights Activist Dorothy Height has her first column published in the weekly African-American newspaper called the "New York Amsterdam News" |
Mar 21 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open |
Mar 21 |
Martin Luther King Jr. begins march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama |
Mar 21 |
US Ranger 9 launched; takes 5,814 pictures before lunar impact |
Mar 22 |
D Senanayake wins general elections in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) |
Mar 22 |
US confirms its troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong |
Mar 23 |
Gemini 3 launched, 1st US 2-man space flight (Grissom & Young) |
Mar 23 |
Moroccan army shoots on demonstrators, about 100 killed |
Mar 24 |
US Ranger 9 strikes Moon, 10 miles (16 km) NE of crater Alphonsus |
Mar 25 |
Martin Luther King Jr. led 25,000 to state capitol in Montgomery, Al |
Mar 25 |
West German Bondsdag extends war crimes retribution |
Mar 26 |
A truck loses control down Moosic Street, Scranton, Pennsylvania, killing the driver. This accident later inspired the 1974 Harry Chapin song, "30,000 Pounds of Bananas." |
Mar 28 |
Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA All State Ladies' Golf Invitational |
Mar 30 |
Vietnam War: A car bomb explodes in front of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others. |
Mar 31 |
US ordered the 1st combat troops to Vietnam |
Mar 31 |
Iberia Airlines Convair 440 crashed into the sea on approach to Tangier killing 47 of 51 occupants. |
Apr 1 |
South Africa worker's union leader Henry Fazzie sentenced to 10 years |
Apr 1 |
Syncom 3, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, passes from civilian to military control |
Apr 2 |
Hochhuths play "Stellvertreter" banned in Italy |
Apr 3 |
1st atomic powered spacecraft (snap) launched |
Apr 4 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Baton Rouge Golf Invitational |
Apr 4 |
The first model of the new Saab Viggen fighter aircraft plane is unveiled. |
Apr 5 |
37th Academy Awards - "My Fair Lady", Rex Harrison & Julie Andrews win |
Apr 5 |
Lava Lamp Day celebrated |
Apr 5 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Apr 6 |
Intelsat 1 ("Early Bird") 1st coml geosynchronous comm satellite |
Apr 7 |
Bevan Congdon makes a stumping as 12th man NZ v Pakistan |
Apr 9 |
Beatles "Ticket to Ride" is released in UK |
Apr 9 |
India & Pakistan engage in border fight |
Apr 9 |
1st game at Astrodome, Houston beats Yankees 2-1 in exhibition as Mickey Mantle hits 1st indoor homerun |
Apr 11 |
29th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 271 |
Apr 11 |
40 tornadoes strike US midwest killing 272 & injuring 5,000 |
Apr 12 |
1st NL game at Houston's Astrodome (Phillies beat Astros 2-0) |
Apr 13 |
Beatles record "Help" |
Apr 13 |
1st US Senate black page, Lawrence W Bradford Jr, 16, appointed by NY Sen Jacob Javits |
Apr 13 |
7th Grammy Awards: The Girl From Ipanema, The Beatles wins |
Apr 14 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Apr 15 |
James Baldwin's "Amen Corner" premieres in NYC |
Apr 15 |
NFL changes penalty flag from white to bright gold |
Apr 16 |
Test flight of heavy Saturn S-1C-rocket |
Apr 19 |
1st all news radio station (WINS 1010 AM in NYC) begins operating |
Apr 19 |
69th Boston Marathon won by Morio Shigematsu of Japan in 2:16:33 |
Apr 19 |
T.A.M.I. Show premieres in London |
Apr 19 |
At a cost of $20,000, the outer Astrodome ceiling is painted because of sun's glare, this causes the grass to die |
Apr 20 |
People's Republic China offers North Vietnam military aid |
Apr 21 |
New York World's Fair reopens for 2nd & final season |
Apr 23 |
Launch of 1st Soviet communications satellite |
Apr 24 |
"Comedy in Music-Opus 2" closes at John Golden NYC after 192 perfs |
Apr 24 |
Military coup under Donald Reid Cabral in Dominican Republic |
Apr 24 |
NY Met Casey Stengel wins his 3,000 game as manager |
Apr 25 |
19th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 1 |
Apr 25 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Pensacola Golf Invitational |
Apr 26 |
Ives' 4th Symphony premieres |
Apr 27 |
"I'm Solomon" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 7 perfs |
Apr 27 |
RC Duncan patents "Pampers" disposable diaper |
Apr 28 |
Barbra Streisand stars on "My Name is Barbra" special on CBS |
Apr 28 |
Lindsey Nelson broadcasts game at Astrodome from a hanging gondola |
Apr 28 |
Richard Helms replaces Marshall S Carter as deputy director of CIA |
Apr 28 |
US marines invade Dominican Republic, stay until October 1966 |
Apr 28 |
William F Raborn Jr replaces John A McCone as 7th head of CIA |
Apr 29 |
Australian government announces it would send troops to Vietnam |
Apr 29 |
Earthquake hits Seattle; 5 die |
Apr 29 |
Malta is 18th member of Council of Europe |
May 1 |
91st Kentucky Derby: Bill Shoemaker on Lucky Debonair wins in 2:01.2 |
May 1 |
Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Chicago Blackhawks, 4 games to 3 |
May 1 |
USSR launches Luna 5; later impacts on Moon |
May 1 |
Battle of Dong-Yin, a naval conflict between ROC and PRC, takes place. |
May 2 |
"New Faces of 1965" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 52 performances |
May 2 |
Early Bird satellite goes into commercial service |
May 2 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Golf Invitational |
May 2 |
Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open |
May 3 |
1st use of satellite TV, Today Show on Early Bird Satellite |
May 3 |
3rd Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 2-1 in 10 |
May 3 |
Cambodia drops diplomatic relations with the US |
May 3 |
Don Steele, begins a 40+ year radio career at KRTH (Los Angeles California) |
May 3 |
KTCI TV channel 17 in St. Paul-Minneapolis, MN (PBS) 1st broadcast |
May 3 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Irwin Unger (Greenback Era) |
May 4 |
Willie Mays 512th HR breaks Mel Ott's 511th NL record |
May 5 |
1st large-scale US Army ground units arrive in South Vietnam |
May 6 |
Lawry & Simpson complete opening stand of 382 against W Indies |
May 7 |
WAOW TV channel 9 in Wausau, WI (ABC) begins broadcasting |
May 8 |
1st shut put over 70' (Randy Matson 70' 7") |
May 9 |
Beatles attend a Bob Dylan concert |
May 9 |
Luna 5 launched (USSR) 1st attempt to soft land on Moon (fails) |
May 11 |
"Flora, the Red Menace" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 87 performances |
May 11 |
1st of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 (India) |
May 11 |
Bangladesh windstorm kills 17,000 |
May 11 |
Ellis Island added to Statue of Liberty National monument |
May 11 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
May 11 |
West Indies becomes 1st holders of the Frank Worrell Cricket Trophy |
May 12 |
Israel & West Germany exchange letters beginning diplomatic relations |
May 13 |
Rolling Stones record "Satisfaction" |
May 13 |
Several Arab nations break ties with West Germany after it established diplomatic relations with Israel |
May 14 |
2nd Chinese atom bomb explodes |
May 14 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
May 15 |
91st Preakness: Ron Turcotte aboard Tom Rolfe wins in 1:56.2 |
May 15 |
Canadian Football Players Association organizes |
May 15 |
Igor Vodic beats Mad Dog Vachon in Omaha, to become NWA champ |
May 16 |
"Roar of the Greasepaint" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 232 perfs |
May 16 |
Balt Oriole Jim Palmer's pitching debut, beats Yankees 7-5 & homers |
May 16 |
Bomb destroys USAF base Bien Hoa South Vietnam |
May 16 |
Susie Maxwell wins LPGA Muskogee Civitan Golf Open |
May 16 |
WNJU TV channel 47 in NY-Linden, NY (TEL) begins broadcasting |
May 16 |
The Campbell Soup Company introduces SpaghettiOs under its Franco-American brand. |
May 18 |
Gene Roddenberry suggests 16 names including Kirk for Star Trek Capt |
May 18 |
WTAF TV channel 29 in Philadelphia, PA (IND) begins broadcasting |
May 19 |
Patricia R Harris named 1st US black female ambassador (Luxembourg) |
May 19 |
West Ham United wins 5th Europe Cup II |
May 20 |
Pakistani Boeing 720-B crashes at Cairo Egypt, killing 121 |
May 20 |
Yorkshire all out for 23 v Hampshire at Middlesbrough |
May 22 |
"Super-cali-fragil-istic-expi-ali-docious" hits #66 |
May 22 |
Beatles' "Ticket to Ride" single goes #1 |
May 22 |
Mad Dog Vachon beats Igor Vodic in Omaha, to become NWA champ |
May 23 |
Franz Jonas elected president of Austria |
May 23 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open |
May 23 |
Pontoon ferry overturned on Shire River Malawi, kills 150 |
May 24 |
Supreme Court declares federal law allowing post office to intercept communist propaganda is unconstitutional |
May 25 |
Dave Davies of The Kinks stumbles & is knocked unconscious on stage |
May 25 |
India & Pakistan border fights |
May 25 |
Muhammad Ali KOs Sonny Liston in 1 for heavyweight boxing title rematch |
May 25 |
Roel van Duyn, Martijn Ananar & Rob Faado align in Provo |
May 26 |
Dutch Voting Rights Bill passes |
May 26 |
Revised International Convention on Safety of Life at Sea takes effect |
May 27 |
Inter Milan wins 10th Europe Cup 1 in Milan |
May 28 |
Fire & explosion at Dhori mine in Dhanbad India kills 400 |
May 29 |
Phillies Dick Allen hits 529' HR out of Connie Mack Stadium |
May 30 |
France performs nuclear test at Ecker Algeria (Underground) |
May 30 |
Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open |
May 30 |
Viet Cong offensive against US base Da Nang, begins |
May 30 |
Vivian Malone is 1st black to graduate from University of Alabama |
May 31 |
Jim Clark becomes 1st foreigner in 49 years to win Indy |
May 31 |
Indianapolis 500: Jim Clark wins in 3:19:05.370 (242.506 km/h) |
Jun 1 |
A Penzias & R Wilson detect 3°K primordial background radiation |
Jun 1 |
coal mine explosion in Fukuoka Japan kills 236 |
Jun 2 |
2nd of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 (Ganges R India) |
Jun 3 |
Gemini 4 launched; 2nd US 2-man flight (McDivitt & White) |
Jun 5 |
"Wooly Bully" by Sam the Sham & Pharaohs hits #2 |
Jun 5 |
97th Belmont: John Sellers aboard Hail to All wins in 2:28.6 |
Jun 5 |
Lopez Arellano becomes president of Honduras |
Jun 6 |
Rolling Stones release single "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" |
Jun 6 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Blue Grass Golf Invitational |
Jun 6 |
Yankees Tom Tresh bangs 3 consecutive HRs beating White Sox 12-0 |
Jun 7 |
Gemini 4 completes 62 orbits |
Jun 7 |
Morocco King Hassan suspends constitution, grabs power |
Jun 7 |
Sony Corp introduced its home video tape recorder, priced at $995 |
Jun 7 |
The Supreme Court of the United States decides on Griswold v. Connecticut, effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples. |
Jun 8 |
A's draft Rick Monday #1 |
Jun 8 |
US troops ordered to fight offensively in Vietnam |
Jun 8 |
USSR launches Luna 6; it missed the Moon by 99,000 miles |
Jun 9 |
Frenchman, Machal Jazy, runs record mile in 3:53.6 |
Jun 10 |
Vietnam War: The Battle of Dong Xoai begins. |
Jun 12 |
"Bajour" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 232 performances |
Jun 12 |
"I Had a BaIl" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 199 perfs |
Jun 12 |
"What Makes Sammy Run?" closes at 84th St Theater NYC after 540 perfs |
Jun 12 |
Beatles are awarded MBE |
Jun 12 |
Morio Shigematsu runs world record marathon (2:12:00) |
Jun 12 |
Sonny & Cher make their 1st TV appearance in "American Bandstand" |
Jun 12 |
South Vietnam Gen Nguyen Cao Ky succeeds Phan Huy Quat as premier |
Jun 12 |
Big Bang theory of creation of universe is supported by announcement of discovery of new celestial bodies know as blue galaxies |
Jun 13 |
19th Tony Awards: Subject Was Roses & Fiddler on the Roof win |
Jun 13 |
Susie Maxwell wins LPGA Western Golf Open |
Jun 14 |
Beatles release album "Beatles VI" |
Jun 14 |
Cincinnati Red Jim Maloney no-hits NY Mets but loses in 11, 1-0 |
Jun 14 |
John Lennon's 2nd book "A Spaniard in the Works" is published |
Jun 15 |
Bob Dylan records "Like a Rolling Stone" |
Jun 15 |
Denny McLain in relief strikesout 1st 7 batters faced & record 14 in 6 2/3 innings, Bill Freehan ties catcher record of 19 putouts |
Jun 15 |
South Africa begins economic boycott of Dutch products |
Jun 17 |
11.08" (28.14 cm) of rainfall, Holly, Colorado (state 24-hour record) |
Jun 17 |
1st bombing by B-52 (50 km north of Saigon) |
Jun 17 |
Kinks arrive in NYC beginning their 1st US tour |
Jun 19 |
Algerian coup under colonel Houari Boumedienne, pres Ben Bella fired |
Jun 19 |
KYW-AM in Cleveland Ohio returns call letters to Philadelphia |
Jun 20 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open |
Jun 21 |
65th US Golf Open: Gary Player shoots 282 at Bellerive CC in St Louis |
Jun 22 |
Freddie Trueman ends his Test cricket career, v NZ at Lord's |
Jun 25 |
Gyula Kallai succeeds Janos Kádár as premier of Hungary |
Jun 26 |
Wallon party forms in Belgium |
Jun 27 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Carling Golf Open |
Jun 28 |
1st US ground combat forces in Vietnam authorized by President Lyndon B. Johnson |
Jun 28 |
Princess Beatrice & Claus von Amsberg announce engagement |
Jun 29 |
USAF Capt Joseph Henry Engle reaches 85,530 m in X-15 |
Jun 30 |
NFL grants Atlanta Falcons a franchise |
Jul 1 |
FC Twente '65 Enschede soccer team forms in Enschede |
Jul 1 |
KUID TV channel 12 in Moscow, ID (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Jul 1 |
Kinderstraf trial starts |
Jul 2 |
79th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Roy Emerson beats Fred Stolle (62 64 64) |
Jul 3 |
72nd Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Margaret Smith beats M Fraiser (64 75) |
Jul 3 |
Phillies Dick Allen & Frank Thomas get into a fight during practice |
Jul 3 |
USSR & Persia sign dam building & economic aid pact |
Jul 3 |
Harold Strachan, member of the Communist Party of South Africa and Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress, is served with a restriction order in terms of the Suppression of Communism Act |
Jul 4 |
20th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Carol Mann |
Jul 6 |
Rock group "Jefferson Airplane" forms |
Jul 7 |
Otis Redding records "Respect" |
Jul 8 |
Joe Morgan is 1st Houston player with 6 hits in a game |
Jul 9 |
94th British Golf Open: Peter Thomson shoots a 285 at Royal Birkdale |
Jul 9 |
John Edrich completes 310* v NZ in 532 minutes, 52 fours 5 sixes |
Jul 9 |
Senators Frank Howard ties record with 7 strikeouts in DH |
Jul 10 |
Beatles' "VI" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 6 weeks |
Jul 10 |
Rolling Stones score their 1st US #1 single "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" |
Jul 11 |
Israeli Mapai-party nominates David Ben-Gurion |
Jul 11 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Midwest Golf Open |
Jul 13 |
36th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-5 at Metropolitan Stadium, Minn |
Jul 13 |
All star MVP: Juan Marichal (SF Giant) |
Jul 14 |
Australian Ronald Clarke runs world record 10k (27:39.4) |
Jul 14 |
Israeli/Jordanian border fights |
Jul 14 |
US Mariner IV, 1st Mars probe, passes at 6,100 miles (9,800 km) |
Jul 15 |
"Mariner IV" sends back 1st pictures of Mars |
Jul 15 |
Athanassiades Novas succeeds Papandreo as premier of Greece |
Jul 16 |
Mount Blanc Road tunnel between France & Italy opens |
Jul 17 |
WLCY (now WTSP) TV channel 10 in St Petersburg-Tampa, FL (ABC) begins |
Jul 18 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Yankee Golf Open |
Jul 18 |
Zond 3 launched to fly by Moon, enters solar orbit |
Jul 19 |
Shooting begins on Star Trek 2nd pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before" |
Jul 20 |
18.18" (46.18 cm) of rainfall, Edgarton, Missouri (state 24-hr record) |
Jul 20 |
NY Yankee pitcher Mel Stottlemyre hits an inside-the-park grand slam |
Jul 21 |
Pakistan, Iran & Turkey sign Regional Co-Operation pact |
Jul 22 |
Edward Heath succeeds Alec Douglas-Hume as leader of Brit Cons party |
Jul 23 |
Beatles "Help" is released in UK |
Jul 23 |
Dick Stuart homers in a major league-record 23rd different park |
Jul 24 |
"Flora, the Red Menace" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 87 perfs |
Jul 24 |
Bob Dylan release "Like a Rolling Stone" |
Jul 24 |
Casey Stengel resigns as manager of NY Mets |
Jul 24 |
Rock group "The Animals" 1st time in British charts |
Jul 25 |
Folk-rock begins, Dylan uses electric guitar at Newport Folk Festival |
Jul 25 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Tournament |
Jul 26 |
Republic of Maldives gains independence from Britain (Natl Day) |
Jul 27 |
Pierre Harmel forms Belgium government |
Jul 27 |
President Lyndon B. Johnson signs a bill requiring cigarette makers to print health warnings on all cigarette packages about the effects of smoking |
Jul 28 |
LBJ sends 50,000 more soldiers to Vietnam (total of 125,000) |
Jul 29 |
Beatles movie "Help" premieres, Queen Elizabeth attends |
Jul 29 |
Gemini 5 returned after 12d 7h 11m 53s |
Jul 29 |
Major league record 26 strikeouts, Phillies (16), Pirates (10) |
Jul 29 |
USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Jul 30 |
Charles Ives' "From the Steeples & the Mountains" premieres |
Jul 30 |
Duke Ellington's "Golden Brown & the Green Apple" premieres |
Jul 30 |
LBJ signs Medicare bill, which goes into effect in 1966 |
Jul 30 |
Milwaukee manager Bobby Bragan says his pitchers threw 75 to 80 spitballs in a 9-2 loss to the Giants |
Jul 31 |
Cigarette advertsing banned on British TV |
Aug 1 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open |
Aug 2 |
Morley Safer's sends 1st Vietnam report indicating we are losing |
Aug 4 |
Cook Islands enters into free association with New Zealand |
Aug 5 |
Jeff Coffin, Massachusetts, musician (Bela Fleck & the Flecktones) |
Aug 5 |
Dave Marr wins PGA title |
Aug 6 |
32nd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Cleveland 24, All-Stars 16 (68,000) |
Aug 6 |
Beatles release "Help" album in UK |
Aug 6 |
Indian troops invade Pakistan |
Aug 6 |
US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act prohibiting voting discrimination against minorities |
Aug 8 |
Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Milwaukee Golf Open |
Aug 8 |
Singapore leaves Malaysian Federation |
Aug 9 |
Fire in Titan II silo in Searcy Arkansas, 53 die |
Aug 9 |
Singapore gains independence from Malaysia (National Day) |
Aug 10 |
Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 82 km |
Aug 11 |
6 day insurrection starts in Watts section of Los Angeles |
Aug 11 |
Beatles movie "Help" opens in NYC |
Aug 11 |
Watts riots begin in Southeast LA, lasts 6 days |
Aug 12 |
Elizabeth Lane becomes first female British supreme court justice |
Aug 12 |
Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, Inc applies for a NL franchise |
Aug 12 |
Race riot in West Side of Chicago |
Aug 14 |
Beatles tape an appearance for Ed Sullivan Show |
Aug 14 |
Continental Football League plays 1st games |
Aug 14 |
Sonny & Cher's "I Got You Babe" hits #1 |
Aug 15 |
47th PGA Championship: Dave Marr shoots a 280 at Laurel Valley GC PA |
Aug 15 |
Beatles play to 55,000 at Shea Stadium |
Aug 15 |
Mary Mills wins LPGA St Louis Golf Open |
Aug 15 |
Japanese community of SF holds Masanori Murakami Day at Candlestick Park to honor 1st Japanese player to play in major leagues |
Aug 16 |
AFL awards its 1st expansion franchise (Miami Dolphins) |
Aug 18 |
Hank Aaron loses a HR, because he hit it out of batter's box |
Aug 18 |
Orioles' Brooks Robinson hits into his record tying (George Sisler) |
Aug 19 |
Auschwitz trials end with 6 life sentences |
Aug 19 |
Cincinnati Red Jim Maloney 2nd no-hitter of year beats Chicago Cubs, 1-0 |
Aug 20 |
Rolling Stones release their single "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" (their 1st #1 US hit) in the UK |
Aug 20 |
Eddie Mathews & Hank Aaron (1954-65) pass Babe Ruth-Lou Gehrig hitting 772 HRs while playing together on the same team |
Aug 21 |
Gemini 5 launched into Earth orbit (2 astronauts) |
Aug 21 |
Romania adopts constitution |
Aug 21 |
The Crusher beats Mad Dog Vachon in St Paul, to become NWA champ |
Aug 22 |
Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Omaha Jaycee Golf Open |
Aug 22 |
San Francisco Giants pitcher Juan Marachal hits LA Dodger catcher John Roseboro on the head with his bat causing a 14 minute brawl |
Aug 27 |
The Beatles spend an evening with Elvis Presley |
Aug 27 |
WTVI TV channel 42 in Charlotte, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Aug 28 |
Bob Dylan booed for playing electric guiter at a concert in New York's Forest Hills |
Aug 29 |
Astronauts Cooper & Conrad complete 120 Earth orbits in Gemini 5 |
Aug 29 |
Willie Mays sets NL record for HRs in a month with his 17th of August |
Aug 30 |
Casey Stengel announces his retirement after 55 years in baseball |
Aug 30 |
Section of Allalin glacier wipes out construction site at Mattmark Dam near Saas-Fee, Switzerland |
Aug 31 |
US House of Representatives and Senate establish Department of Housing & Urban Development |
Aug 31 |
The Aero Spacelines Super Guppy Aircraft makes its first flight. |
Sep 1 |
India & Pakistan border fights |
Sep 2 |
Cubs slugger Ernie Banks hits his 400th HR (off Curt Simmons) |
Sep 2 |
Treblinka trial in Dusseldorf ends |
Sep 3 |
Curt Flood's record of 568 straight chances without an error begins |
Sep 3 |
Garcia Godoy forms government in Dominican Republic |
Sep 3 |
Jim Hickman becomes 1st NY Met to hit 3 HRs in a game |
Sep 3 |
Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Mysterium Fidei |
Sep 3 |
Preparing a move to Anaheim, Angels change their name from LA to Calif |
Sep 4 |
Beatles' single "Help!" goes #1 & stays #1 for 3 weeks |
Sep 4 |
KREZ TV channel 6 in Durango, CO (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting |
Sep 4 |
Rock group Who's van is vandalized with $10,000 in equipment stolen |
Sep 6 |
India invades West Pakistan |
Sep 6 |
KLNE TV channel 3 in Lexington, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 7 |
-10] Hurricane Betsy, kills 74 in Florida, Miss & La |
Sep 7 |
China announces that it will reinforce its troops in the Indian border. |
Sep 8 |
Hurricane Betsy kills 75 in Louisiana & Florida |
Sep 8 |
KC A's Bert Campaneris plays all 9 positions in a game |
Sep 9 |
Francois Mitterrand nominated for French presidency |
Sep 9 |
Sandy Koufax pitches his 4th no-hitter, a perfect game vs Cubs (1-0) |
Sep 9 |
Tibet is made an autonomous region of China |
Sep 10 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Sep 10 |
Phillies 10,000th game to a decision since 1900, Phils beat Cards |
Sep 10 |
WUND TV channel 2 in Columbia, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 11 |
Beatles' "Help!," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks |
Sep 11 |
Braves 2nd straight one-hitter against the Mets |
Sep 11 |
The 1st Cavalry Division of the United States Army arrives in Vietnam. |
Sep 12 |
79th US Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith beats Billie Jean King (86 75) |
Sep 12 |
85th US Mens Tennis: Manuel Santana beats Cliff Drysdale (62 79 75 61) |
Sep 12 |
Hurricane Betsy strikes Florida & Louisiana kills 75 |
Sep 12 |
Manuel Santana wins US Tennis Open |
Sep 12 |
Mary Mills wins LPGA Eugene Golf Open |
Sep 12 |
WCEE TV channel 23 in Rockford, IL (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 12 |
17th Emmy Awards: Dick Van Dyke Show & Dick Van Dyke win |
Sep 13 |
Beatles release "Yesterday" |
Sep 13 |
Beatles win 1st Grammy, for Best Group of 1964 |
Sep 13 |
Today Show's 1st totally color broadcast |
Sep 13 |
Willie Mays's 500th HR (off Don Nottebart), Giants 11th straight win |
Sep 14 |
"F-Troop" premieres |
Sep 14 |
4th meeting of 2nd Vatican council opened |
Sep 15 |
"Lost in Space" premieres |
Sep 16 |
Boston Red Sox Dave Morehead no-hits Cleve Indians, 2-0 |
Sep 16 |
Sobibor trial opens in Hagen West Germany |
Sep 17 |
WPHL TV channel 17 in Philadelphia, PA (IND) begins broadcasting |
Sep 18 |
"Get Smart" premieres |
Sep 18 |
Mickey Mantle Day at Yankee Stadium: Mantle play his 2,000th game |
Sep 18 |
"I Dream of Jeannie", starring Barbara Eden as a 2,000-year-old genie, and Larry Hagman as an astronaut who becomes her master, premieres on NBC |
Sep 19 |
Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Visalia Golf Open |
Sep 19 |
Erhards CDU wins West German parliament elections |
Sep 20 |
WXXW (now WYCC) TV channel 20 in Chicago, IL (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 21 |
O Kommissarova (USSR) sets women's longest parachute jump (46,250') |
Sep 21 |
Singapore admitted as part of the United Nations. |
Sep 22 |
India & Pakistan ceases-fire goes into effect |
Sep 24 |
Belgium Victor Leemans elected chairman of European Parliament |
Sep 24 |
Saudi Arabian & Egyptian accord over Yemen |
Sep 24 |
Stefan Stefanopoulos forms Greek government |
Sep 25 |
"Do I Hear a Waltz?" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 220 perfs |
Sep 25 |
60 year old Satchel Paige of KC A's pitches 3 scoreless innings |
Sep 25 |
Beatle cartoon show begins in US |
Sep 25 |
Children find trunk with corpse in Amsterdam canal |
Sep 26 |
11th LPGA Championship won by Sandra Haynie |
Sep 26 |
Minnesota gains its 1st AL pennant by defeating Washington, 2-1 |
Sep 26 |
Queen Elizabeth decorates Beatles with Order of the British Empire |
Sep 28 |
Jack McKay in X-15 reaches 90 km |
Sep 28 |
Lava flows kill at least 350 (Taal Philippines) |
Sep 28 |
Volcano explodes on Luzon Philippines; 500 killed |
Sep 29 |
Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 27' 4 3/4" |
Sep 29 |
St L Cards Charlie Johnson passes for 6 touchdowns vs Cleve (49-13) |
Sep 29 |
WLVT TV channel 39 in Allentown, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 29 |
Phillies catcher Pat Corrales sets record by reaching base twice on catcher's interference in one game & 6 times in one season |
Sep 30 |
Donovan's 1st US TV appearance (Shindig) |
Sep 30 |
LA Dodger Don Drysdale (23-12) wins 13th straight game, 7 by shutouts |
Oct 1 |
Failed coup under lt col Untung in Indonesia |
Oct 1 |
France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria |
Oct 2 |
Dodgers beat Braves to clinch NL pennant |
Oct 2 |
Mel Stottlemyre wins game #20 |
Oct 2 |
Phillies' Chris Short strikes-out 18 NY Mets |
Oct 2 |
Pope Paul VI named MR Perey bishop's helper of New Orleans |
Oct 3 |
Cubs tie major league record of 3 triple plays in a season |
Oct 3 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational |
Oct 3 |
Whitey Ford notches #232 to become Yankees winningest pitcher |
Oct 4 |
"Pickwick" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 56 performances |
Oct 4 |
Pope Paul VI becomes 1st Pope to visit Western Hemisphere (UN) |
Oct 4 |
USSR launches Luna 7; crash lands on Moon |
Oct 5 |
Chuck Linster performs 6,006 consecutive push-ups |
Oct 5 |
Dick McInnes stays aloft almost 12 hours in a kite |
Oct 6 |
Supremes release "I Hear a Symphony" |
Oct 6 |
William Goodhart's "Generation" premieres in NYC |
Oct 7 |
Charles Linster does 6,006 consecutive push-ups |
Oct 7 |
50 mph gust helps Robert Mitera ace 447-yd 10th hole at Miracle Hills, Omaha, Nebr to score world's longest straight hole-in-one |
Oct 8 |
Djakarta Moslems set fire to PKI-headquarter |
Oct 8 |
Post Office Tower opens in London, tallest building in England |
Oct 8 |
Once-Hertogenbosch soccer team FC de Bosch forms |
Oct 8 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Oct 9 |
16th Ryder Cup: US wins 19½-12½ at Royal Birkdale, England |
Oct 9 |
Beatles' "Yesterday" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 4 weeks |
Oct 10 |
"Drat! - The Cat!" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 8 performances |
Oct 10 |
The Supremes appear on Ed Sullivan Show |
Oct 10 |
"Vinland Map" is introduced by Yale University as being the first known map of America, drawn about 1440 by Norse explorer Lief Eriksson |
Oct 14 |
Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 80 km |
Oct 14 |
Sandy Koufax hurls his 2nd shutout of World Series beating Twins 2-0 |
Oct 15 |
Dodgers & Sandy Koufax win 7th game of 62nd World Series vs Twins |
Oct 15 |
WEMT (now WVII) TV channel 7 in Bangor, ME (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Oct 16 |
"Drat! - The Cat!" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 8 perfs |
Oct 17 |
"On A Clear Day You Can See Forever" opens in NYC for 280 perfs |
Oct 17 |
WBMG TV channel 42 in Birmingham, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Oct 20 |
19th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 5-2 at Montreal |
Oct 20 |
Beatles receive a gold record for "Yesterday" |
Oct 20 |
Mass arrests of communists in Indonesia |
Oct 21 |
KTWU TV channel 11 in Topeka, KS (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Oct 21 |
Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Robert B Woodward |
Oct 21 |
Vivian Beaumont Theater (NYC) opens |
Oct 21 |
Comet Ikeya-Seki approaches perihelion, passing 450,000 kilometers from the sun. |
Oct 24 |
Benjamin Britten's "Voices for Today" premieres |
Oct 24 |
Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Phoenix Thunderbirds Golf Tournament |
Oct 25 |
Rolling Stones release "Get Off of My Cloud" |
Oct 26 |
Beatles receive MBEs at Buckingham Palace |
Oct 26 |
Sylvia Likens tortured by teen girl gang |
Oct 27 |
WCFT TV channel 33 in Tuscaloosa, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Oct 28 |
Gateway Arch (630' (190m) high) completed in St Louis, Missouri |
Oct 28 |
Pope Paul VI proclaims Jews not collectively guilty for crucifixion |
Oct 29 |
US performs underground nuclear test at Amchitka Island Aleutians |
Oct 30 |
Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Las Cruces Golf Open |
Oct 30 |
Fireworks explosions kill 50 in Cartagena, Colombia |
Nov 1 |
1st concert at Fillmore Auditorium, SF |
Nov 1 |
Ernie Terrel beats George Chuvalo in 15 for heavyweight boxing |
Nov 1 |
Trackless trolley plunged into Nile River drowning 74 (Cairo Egypt) |
Nov 3 |
Sandy Koufax wins NL Cy Young Award unanimously |
Nov 4 |
Lee Breedlove sets female land speed record (308.56 MPH) in Utah |
Nov 7 |
Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Tall City Golf Open |
Nov 8 |
"Days of Our Lives" premieres on TV |
Nov 8 |
British Indian Ocean Territory formed |
Nov 9 |
1st NY Knick game postponed (black-out) vs St Louis |
Nov 9 |
Hurricane hits north east US/Canada |
Nov 9 |
Willie Mays named NL MVP |
Nov 9 |
Several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours in the Northeast Blackout of 1965. |
Nov 10 |
Manneke Piss statue stolen in Brussels |
Nov 11 |
Rhodesia proclaimed independence from Britain by PM Ian Smith |
Nov 11 |
William Alfred's "Hogan's Goat" premieres in NYC |
Nov 12 |
Ferdinand Marcos elected 10th President of Philippines |
Nov 12 |
General strike in Morocco against disappearance of Ben Barka |
Nov 12 |
Mad Dog Vachon beats Crusher in Denver, to become NWA champ |
Nov 12 |
Venera 2 launched by Soviet Union toward Venus |
Nov 13 |
"Skyscraper" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 248 performances |
Nov 13 |
"Yarmouth Castle" burns & sinks off Bahamas, killing 89 |
Nov 13 |
Director Kenneth Tynan says the word "Fuck" on BBC |
Nov 14 |
"Baker Street" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 313 performances |
Nov 14 |
George Abbott Theater (Adelphi, 54 St) at 152 W 54th NYC, demolished |
Nov 14 |
KCST TV channel 39 in San Diego, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Nov 14 |
Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Alamo Golf Open |
Nov 14 |
US government sends 90,000 soldiers to Vietnam |
Nov 15 |
Craig Breedlove sets land speed record (600.601 mph-966.57 kph) |
Nov 16 |
Venera 3 launched, 1st to land on another planet (crashes into Venus) |
Nov 16 |
Walt Disney launches Epcot Center: Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow |
Nov 17 |
General Meeting of UN refuses admittance of China PR |
Nov 17 |
William Eckert is unanimously elected commissioner of baseball |
Nov 18 |
Twins SS Zoilo Versalles is named AL MVP |
Nov 19 |
ABC radio begins weekly "Vietnam Update" report |
Nov 19 |
Kellogg's Pop Tarts pastries created |
Nov 20 |
"Pickwick" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 56 performances |
Nov 20 |
UN Security council calls for boycott of Rhodesia |
Nov 20 |
WCNY TV channel 24 in Syracuse, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Nov 21 |
1st freighter arrives in Ashdod Port Israel |
Nov 21 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Nov 22 |
"Man of La Mancha" opens at ANTA Wash Sq Theater NYC for 2329 perfs |
Nov 22 |
Muhammad Ali TKOs Floyd Patterson in 12 for heavyweight boxing title |
Nov 23 |
31st Heisman Trophy Award: Mike Garrett, Southern Cal (RB) |
Nov 23 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Nov 24 |
Marshal Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu becomes President of Zaire |
Nov 25 |
Congo military coup under Gen Mobutu, Pres Kasavubu overthrown |
Nov 26 |
Dodgers 2nd baseman Jim Lefebvre is voted NL Rookie of Year |
Nov 26 |
France launches 1st satellite, 92 lb (42 kg) A1-capsule (Asterix) |
Nov 27 |
15-25,000 demonstrate against war in Vietnam in Washington, DC |
Nov 27 |
1st French satellite launched; France becomes 3rd nation in space |
Nov 27 |
53rd CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeat Winn Blue Bombers, 22-16 |
Nov 28 |
Browns' Leroy Kelly sets club record for most punt return yds (109) |
Nov 28 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship |
Nov 29 |
"Anya" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 16 performances |
Nov 29 |
Dale Cummings does 14,118 consecutive sit-ups |
Dec 1 |
Airlift of refugees from Cuba to US began |
Dec 1 |
South Africa government says children of white fathers are white |
Dec 3 |
Beatles begin final UK concert tour in Glasgow |
Dec 3 |
USSR launches Luna 8; crashes on Moon |
Dec 4 |
"Roar of the Greasepaint" closes at Shubert NYC after 232 perfs |
Dec 4 |
2 passenger planes collide above Danbury, Conn, 4 die |
Dec 4 |
2nd NY Knick game postponed (due to death of opponent 76ers' owner) |
Dec 4 |
Gemini 7 (Borman & Lovell) launched |
Dec 4 |
SF Giant Masanori Murakami, 4-1 this year, does not renew his contract signing instead with the Nankai Hawks of Osaka for $40,000 |
Dec 6 |
2 trucks crashed into a crowd of dancers (Sotouboua Togo) kills 125 |
Dec 6 |
Pakistan's Islamic Ideology Advisory Committee recommends that Islamic Studies be made a compulsory subject for Muslim students from primary to graduate level. |
Dec 7 |
Pope Paul VI & Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously lift mutual excommunications that led to split of 2 churches in 1054 |
Dec 8 |
Abe Burrows' "Cactus Flower" premieres in NYC |
Dec 8 |
Nikolai Podgorny succeeds Mikojan as president of USSR |
Dec 8 |
Pope Paul VI signs 2nd Vatican council |
Dec 9 |
"A Charlie Brown Christmas" premieres |
Dec 9 |
Frank Robinson is traded from Cincinnati to the Orioles |
Dec 9 |
Nikolai Podgorny replaces Anastas Mikoyan as president of Presidium |
Dec 10 |
"Yearling" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 3 performances |
Dec 10 |
Dutch ends economic boycott of Rhodesia |
Dec 10 |
Test Cricket debut of Doug Walters v England at the Gabba |
Dec 11 |
"Anya" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 16 performances |
Dec 11 |
"Yearling" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 3 performances |
Dec 12 |
Beatles' last concert in Great Britain (Capitol Theatre in Cardiff, Wales) |
Dec 12 |
Doug Walters makes maiden Test ton in 1st Test, goes on to 155 |
Dec 12 |
Gale Sayers of Chicago Bears scores 6 TDs, ties NFL record |
Dec 12 |
Vivian Beaumont Theater opens at 65th St & Amsterdam Ave NYC |
Dec 13 |
Algerian president Boumedienne visits Moscow |
Dec 14 |
"La Grusse Valise" opens at 54th St Theater NYC for 7 performances |
Dec 15 |
3rd cyclone of year kills 15,000 at the mouths of the Ganges River in Bangladesh |
Dec 15 |
D Heneker & J Taylor's musical "Charlie Girl," premieres in London |
Dec 15 |
Gemini 6 launched; makes 1st rendezvous in space (with Gemini 7) |
Dec 15 |
Queen Juliana opens Zeeland Bridge to Oosterschelde |
Dec 15 |
William Eckert replaces Ford Frick as 4th commissioner of baseball |
Dec 16 |
Gemini 6 returns to Earth |
Dec 16 |
Pioneer 6 launched into solar orbit |
Dec 16 |
Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, becomes King of Tonga |
Dec 17 |
Astrodome opens, 1st event is Judy Garland & Supremes concert |
Dec 17 |
British government proclaims ends oil-embargo against Rhodesia |
Dec 17 |
David Levy begins his search for comets |
Dec 17 |
Dutch government shuts Limburgs coal mine |
Dec 17 |
Largest newspaper-Sunday NY Times at 946 pages (50 cents) |
Dec 18 |
"La Grusse Valise" closes at 54th St Theater NYC after 7 performances |
Dec 18 |
Borman & Lovell Splash down in Atlantic after 2 week Gemini VII mission |
Dec 18 |
Kenneth LeBel jumps 17 barrels on ice skates |
Dec 19 |
French president De Gaulle re-elected (Mitterrand gets 45%) |
Dec 22 |
Belgian government shuts 6 coal mines |
Dec 22 |
Director David Lean's "Dr Zhivago" premieres |
Dec 22 |
Great Britain sets national maximum road speed at 70 miles per hour |
Dec 22 |
Radio Mil (Domincan Republic) transmitter blown up |
Dec 25 |
The Yemeni Nasserite Unionist People's Organisation is founded in Taiz |
Dec 26 |
"Funny Girl" with Barbra Streisand closes on Broadway |
Dec 26 |
Buffalo Bills beat San Diego Chargers 23-0 in AFL championship game |
Dec 26 |
Paul McCartney is interviewed on pirate radio station Radio Caroline |
Dec 29 |
"Thunderball" premieres in US |
Dec 29 |
CBS purchases NFL TV rights for 1966-68 at $18.8 million per year |
Dec 29 |
Supremes release "My World is Empty Without You" |
Dec 29 |
54th Davis Cup: Australia beats Spain in Sydney (4-1) |
Dec 30 |
Ferdinand Marcos inaugurated as President of the Phillipines |
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