1965

1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday in the Gregorian calendar.

 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
 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 9 – A Charlie Brown Christmas debuts on CBS.
 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 1 – Todd Spikes, American former police officer and convicted sex offender
 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 2 – Ferhan and Ferzan Önder, Turkish-Austrian pianists
 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

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