1965 @ Nostalgia Central

Bookmark this page

Email this page to a friend

<< | 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | >>

02 - Indonesia withdraws from the United Nations

04 - Poet and author T S Eliot dies

07 - In Australia, the first hydrofoil comes into use on Sydney Harbour

12 - The bodies of two teenage girls are found in sand hills at Wanda Beach, Cronulla, Sydney

20 - US Disc Jockey Alan Freed, dies in poverty at Palm Springs, Florida

24 - Former British PM Winston Churchill dies aged 90

27 - Australian police are given powers to arrest without a warrant in Queensland as a result of an ongoing strike at Mt Isa Mines

28 - The Who make their first appearance on British TV show Ready Steady Go! before an audience packed with Mods

30 - Winston Churchill is buried in a churchyard near Blenheim Palace following a funeral service at St Paul's Cathedral. 350 million people worldwide watch the service live on TV

01 - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and more than 2,600 other blacks arrested in Selma, Alabama, during three-day demonstrations against voter-registration rules

07 - Beatles' George Harrison undergoes a tonsillectomy at London's University College Hospital

07 - American aircraft bomb North Vietnam after attacks by the North Vietnamese on American areas in the South

08 - Cigarette advertising is banned from British television

11 - Ringo Starr marries childhood sweetheart, Maureen Cox, in London

15 - Nat King Cole dies of cancer

18 - Gambia becomes independent state

21 - US Black leader Malcolm X shot to death at Harlem rally in New York City by rival Black Muslims

22 - The Beatles begin filming their second film, titled Eight Arms To Hold You (eventually released as Help!)

23 - Stan Laurel, the thin half of the Laurel & Hardy comedy duo, dies aged 74

23 - Royal Australian Mint opened in Canberra by the Duke of Edinburgh

02 - Australian Swimming Union bans Dawn Fraser from competitive swimming for ten years after an incident at the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games where Fraser allegedly stole a flag from the palace of the Japanese Emperor

07 - Qantas Boeing jet City of Townsville completes first non-stop Pacific flight from San Francisco to Sydney

10 - First National Service lottery is drawn in Australia to select young men for military service

18 - The Rolling Stones urinate against the wall of a garage in England and are arrested for 'insulting behavior'

18 - Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov somersaults into space on first space walk from his craft Voskhod 2

19 - Nicolae Ceaucescu becomes first secretary of the Romanian Communist party

26 - 25,000 Civil Rights marchers converge on Montgomery, Alabama, USA

31 - LBJ sends 3,500 troops to Vietnam following a bomb attack that wrecks the US embassy in Saigon

01 - Helena Rubinstein, Cosmetics Manufacturer, dies aged 93

06 - Britain sweeps the Oscars. Julie Andrews wins Best Actress in film debut for Mary Poppins

09 - The Rolling Stones make their first live appearance on Ready, Steady, Go

09 - Indian and Pakistani troops clash on the Kutch-Sind border

29 - Australian PM Menzies announces Australia will send troops to Vietnam

29 - French President de Gaulle condemns foreign involvement in Vietnam

30 - US Marines sent to Dominican Republic to protect US citizens after a military junta seizes power

02 - World's first commercial communications satellite, Early Bird, is launched, linking USA, Canada, UK and Europe

04 - First Australian Army battalion leaves for Vietnam

07 - Ian Smith's pro-white Rhodesian Front Party is elected to power in Southern Rhodesia

11 - Australian Labor party loses NSW for first time in 24 years

12 - West Germany establishes diplomatic links with Israel. Ten Arab states break off relations in protest

12 - Soviet attempt to land on the Moon fails

03 - Major Edward White becomes first US astronaut to take a walk in space onboard Gemini 4

15 - Old guard protest at MBEs for The Beatles. Many return their gongs in disgust

19 - Algerian President Ahmed Ben Bella is deposed in a bloodless coup. Col. Houari Boumédienne takes over

28 - President Johnson announces that, in order to increase troop levels in Vietnam, the military draft will soon be doubled from 17,000 to 35,000 a month

01 - Medicare, senior citizens' government medical assistance program, begins in Australia

09 - First Australians killed in Vietnam

13 - LBJ sends the Marines into Vietnam

15 - Mariner 4 sends back the first detailed photographs of Mars

16 - Mont Blanc tunnel linking France and Italy opens

25 - Bob Dylan appears at a folk rock festival at Newport, Rhode Island and performs with an electric guitar for the first time. Purists in the audience boo him offstage

26 - Pam Burridge, Australian surfing champion, is born

27 - Edward Heath becomes British Conservative Party leader

28 - LBJ announces the deployment of another 50,000 troops in Vietnam. The US is on the offensive

02 - Australian Labor Party drops White Australia policy

09 - Singapore gains independence from Malaysia

11/16 - Race riots flare in Watts district of Los Angeles. 34 are killed and over 800 injured

13 - Jefferson Airplane make their debut at San Francisco's Matrix Club

21/29 - Gemini 5 with Gordon Cooper and Charles Conrad Jr aboard makes 120 orbits of the Earth

27 - The Beatles meet Elvis Presley for the first and only time

01 - Pakistani troops cross into Kashmir over cease-fire line

04 - The Who visit Battersea Dog's Home in London to buy a guard dog but return to find their van full of musical equipment has been stolen

06 - India invades West Pakistan

09 - Roma Mitchell becomes Australia's first woman judge

13 - Zak Starkey, son of Beatle Ringo Starr, is born

20 - US House of Representatives approves the use of force to resist communism

04 - Pope Paul VI sets foot in New York. He is the first pope to visit America

08 - Australian PM Menzies is made Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports

15 - Pope Paul VI decrees all Jews not to blame for Christ's death

26 - The Beatles receive MBEs at Buckingham Palace

28 - In England, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley are charged with the "Moors Murders"

30 - English model Jean Shrimpton attends Derby Day in Melbourne with her dress 6½ inches above the knee and introduces the miniskirt to Australia

31 - Anabella Lwin (Bow Wow Wow) is born

01 - In Japan, the high-speed train begins a scheduled service from Tokyo to Osaka, traveling 321 miles in 3 hours 10 minutes

04 - White Rhodesia breaks with Britain. Britain declares Prime Minister Ian Smith's Declaration of Independence illegal and imposes economic sanctions

07 - Four miners are killed in an underground fire at Bulli colliery in NSW, Australia

09 - A power failure at Niagra Falls blacks out New York City, parts of eight states of northeast USA and two provinces of southeast Canada. About 30 million people find themselves in the dark

20 - A week-long battle in Vietnam's Iadrang Valley leaves 240 US soldiers dead and 470 wounded

22 - Bob Dylan marries former model Sara Lowndes

25 - In the Congo Republic, General Mobotu imposes five years of army rule

26 - France launches its first satellite from the Sahara desert

27 - 25,000 anti-war demonstrators march on Washington DC