1965

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

## Events 
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* January 30 – state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill in London
* February 18 – The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom
* March 7 &ndash; 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 
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* 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 
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* January 4 – T. S. Eliot, American poet (b. 1888)
* January 24 – Winston Churchill, British statesman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1874)

### February 
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* 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 
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* 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 
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* July 1 – Wally Hammond, English cricketer (b. 1903)
* July 7 – Moshe Sharett, 2nd Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1894)

### August 
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* August 13 – Hayato Ikeda, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1899)
* August 27 – Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (b. 1887)

### September 
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* 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 
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* 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

## References