Title: 1965 Content: 1965 (MCMLXV) was . == Events == * January 30 – state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill in London * February 18 – The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom * March 7 - Bloody Sunday: Alabama State Troopers attack civil rights demonstrators as they attempt to march to the state capitol of Montgomery * April 9 - Charlie Brown and the Peanuts Gang appear on the cover of Time * May 25 – Muhammad Ali knocks out Sonny Liston in the first round of their championship boxing rematch * June 15 - Victoria, Australia, coldest day on record -11.7°C at Omeo * July 16 – The Mont Blanc tunnel opens * August 9 – Singapore proclaims its independence from the Malaysian Federation. * September 9 – Hurricane Betsy is in Louisiana * October 3 – Fidel Castro announces that Che Guevara resigned and left Cuba * November 5 – Martial law is announced in Rhodesia * December 20 – World Food Programme is made a permanent agency of the United Nations * The Left Banke forms * Pete Best attempts suicide == Births == * January 8 – John Catliff, Canadian footballer * February 21 - Steve Lee, Sound effects wrangler and film historian * February 1 – Brandon Lee, Chinese-American actor (d. 1993) * March 1 – Booker Huffman, American professional wrestler * March 23 - Jonathan Dow, British actor * April 16 – Jon Cryer, American actor * April 20 - Susan Cookson, British actress * May 7 – Owen Hart, Canadian professional wrestler (died 1999) * June 1 – Nigel Short, English chess player * July 31 – J. K. Rowling, writer * August 25 – Mia Zapata, singer * August 28 – Shania Twain, singer * September 2 – Lennox Lewis, British boxer * October 5 – Patrick Roy, Canadian retired ice hockey player * November 20 – Ben Stiller, actor * December 31 – Nicholas Sparks, American author == Deaths == === January === * January 4 – T. S. Eliot, American poet (b. 1888) * January 24 – Winston Churchill, British statesman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1874) === February === * February 15 – Nat King Cole, American singer and musician (b. 1919) * February 21 – Malcolm X, American civil rights activist (b. 1925) * February 23 – Stan Laurel, English actor and comedian (b. 1890) === March === * March 18 – King Farouk of Egypt (b. 1920) === April === * April 18 – Guillermo González Camarena, Mexican inventor (b. 1917) === May === * May 1 – Spike Jones, American musician and bandleader (b. 1911) === June === * June 5 – Eleanor Farjeon, English author of children's literature (b. 1881) === July === * July 1 – Wally Hammond, English cricketer (b. 1903) * July 7 – Moshe Sharett, 2nd Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1894) === August === * August 13 – Hayato Ikeda, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1899) * August 27 – Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (b. 1887) === September === * September 16 – Fred Quimby, American animated film producer (b. 1886) * September 27 – Clara Bow, American actress and sex- symbol (b. 1905) === October === === November === * November 24 – Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1895) * November 25 – Dame Myra Hess, English pianist (b. 1890) === December === * December 5 – Joseph Erlanger, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874) == Nobel Prizes == * Nobel Prize in Physics shared by Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Julian Schwinger, and Richard P. Feynman for work in the development of quantum electrodynamics * Nobel Prize in Chemistry won by Robert B. Woodward, American chemist (for his synthetic work with natural products) * Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine shared by François Jacob, André Lwoff, and Jacques Monod * Nobel Prize in Literature won by Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, Russian novelist * Nobel Peace Prize won by UNICEF == Movies released == * The Agony and the Ectasy * Alphaville, Golden Bear winner * Cat Ballou * Darling * Doctor Zhivago, starring Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, and Alec Guinness * For a Few Dollars More * Girl Happy * The Great Race * The Greatest Story Ever Told * Help!, starring The Beatles * The Ipcress File * Juliet of the Spirits * The Knack...And How to Get It, Cannes Grand Prize * The Legend of Blood Mountain * Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie * Report * Ship of Fools * The Shop on Main Street * The Sons of Katie Elder * The Sound of Music * The Spy Who Came in from the Cold * Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines * A Thousand Clowns * Thunderball * Zorba the Greek == 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