1965

1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1965th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 965th year of the 2nd millennium, the 65th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1960s decade.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1930s  1940s  1950s  – 1960s –  1970s  1980s  1990s
Years:	1962 1963 1964 – 1965 – 1966 1967 1968

1965 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1965 MCMLXV
Ab urbe condita	2718
Armenian calendar	1414 ԹՎ ՌՆԺԴ
Assyrian calendar	6715
Bahá'í calendar	121–122
Balinese saka calendar	1886–1887
Bengali calendar	1372
Berber calendar	2915
British Regnal year	13 Eliz. 2 – 14 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2509
Burmese calendar	1327
Byzantine calendar	7473–7474
Chinese calendar	甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 4661 or 4601     — to — 乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 4662 or 4602
Coptic calendar	1681–1682
Discordian calendar	3131
Ethiopian calendar	1957–1958
Hebrew calendar	5725–5726
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2021–2022
- Shaka Samvat	1886–1887
- Kali Yuga	5065–5066
Holocene calendar	11965
Igbo calendar	965–966
Iranian calendar	1343–1344
Islamic calendar	1384–1385
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 40 (昭和４０年)
Javanese calendar	1896–1897
Juche calendar	54
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4298
Minguo calendar	ROC 54 民國54年
Nanakshahi calendar	497
Thai solar calendar	2508
Tibetan calendar	阳木龙年 (male Wood-Dragon) 2091 or 1710 or 938     — to — 阴木蛇年 (female Wood-Snake) 2092 or 1711 or 939

Events

Funeral train for Sir Winston Churchill

• 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

Bruce Lee with son Brandon Lee in 1966

• 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

T. S. Eliot

Winston Churchill

• January 4 – T. S. Eliot, American poet (b. 1888)
• January 24 – Winston Churchill, British statesman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1874)

February

Nat King Cole

Malcolm X

Stan Laurel

• 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

Farouk of Egypt

• 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

Moshe Sharett

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

August

Hayato Ikeda

Le Corbusier

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

September

Clara Bow

• September 16 – Fred Quimby, American animated film producer (b. 1886)
• September 27 – Clara Bow, American actress and sex-symbol (b. 1905)

November

• November 24 – Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1895)
• November 25 – Dame Myra Hess, English pianist (b. 1890)

December

Joseph Erlanger

• 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