1965

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
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 -11.7degC 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 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 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 Gonzalez 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 Francois Jacob, Andre Lwoff, and Jacques Monod
Nobel Prize in Literature won by Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, Russian novelist
Nobel Peace Prize won by UNICEF
References