* 1965 – Launch of Early Bird, the first communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit.

* 1965 – The British Government announces the cancellation of the TSR-2 aircraft project.

* 1909 – William M. Branham, American evangelist ( d. 1965 )

* 1965 – Frank Black, American singer-songwriter ( Pixies, Frank Black and the Catholics, and Grand Duchy )

* 1965 – Sterling Sharpe, American football player

* 1965 – Lieve Slegers, Belgian athlete

* 1965 – Kim Bodnia, Danish actor

* 1965 – Tom O ' Brien, American actor and producer

* 1965 – Mihai Stoica, Romanian football manager

* 1965 – Adrian Pasdar, American actor

* 1965 – Wayne James, Zimbabwean cricketer

* 1965 – Ange Postecoglou, Australian footballer

* 1965 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.

* 1965 – The largest swimming pool in Europe was opened in Fürstenfeld, Austria.

* 1965 – Yuki Kajiura, Japanese pianist and composer ( See-Saw )

* 1965 – Juliane Köhler, German actress

* 1965 – David Robinson, American basketball player

* 1965 – Mark Speight, English television host ( d. 2008 )

* 1965 – Vincent Wells, England cricketer

* 1965 – Singapore is expelled from Malaysia and becomes the first and only country to date to gain independence unwillingly.

* 1965 – A fire at a Titan missile base near Searcy, Arkansas kills 53 construction workers.

Albert Schweitzer, OM ( 14 January 1875 – 4 September 1965 ) was a German and then French theologian, organist, philosopher, physician, and medical missionary.

* 1965 – Mark Lemke, American baseball player

* 1965 – Hayato Matsuo, Japanese composer

Full enfranchisement of citizens was not secured until after the African-American Civil Rights Movement ( 1955 – 1968 ) gained passage by the United States Congress of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

1965 US Postage Stamp, published during the upsurge of the Civil Rights Movement

* 1965 – Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King, Jr. successfully complete their 4-day 50-mile march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.

In 1965, Kameny, inspired by the Civil Rights Movement, organized a picket of the White House and other government buildings to protest employment discrimination.

It achieved the moral force and support to gain passage of national legislation with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

After Kennedy's assassination, President Lyndon Johnson's strong support for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 angered white segregationists even more.

* Finley, Keith M. Delaying the Dream: Southern Senators and the Fight Against Civil Rights, 1938 – 1965 ( Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2008 ).

Noted legislative achievements during this phase of the Civil Rights Movement were passage of Civil Rights Act of 1964, that banned discrimination based on " race, color, religion, or national origin " in employment practices and public accommodations ; the Voting Rights Act of 1965, that restored and protected voting rights ; the Immigration and Nationality Services Act of 1965, that dramatically opened entry to the U. S. to immigrants other than traditional European groups ; and the Fair Housing Act of 1968, that banned discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.

The USSR defeated the nationalist Hungarian Revolution of 1956, and the USA precipitated the US – Vietnam War ( 1965 – 1975 ) by participating in the Vietnamese Civil War ( 1955 – 1965 ) that the National Liberation Front fought against the Republic of Vietnam, the Asian client state of the United States.

A " Second Reconstruction ", sparked by the Civil Rights Movement, led to civil rights laws in 1964 and 1965 that protected and enforced full civic rights of African Americans.

Congress ratified the process in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

In 1965, a full century after the American Civil War, things had not changed much: 86 white families owned 90 percent of the land in the county and controlled the government.

On 2008-02-28, the Maryland American Civil Liberties Union and Prince George's County NAACP sent a letter to the Greenbelt City Council claiming that Greenbelt's at-large system may violate section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

The film highlights the attempt to organize a black community in the Deep South in 1965 during the heyday of the Civil Rights Movement.

The national outrage over their deaths helped procure support for Congressional passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Pender is the posthumous author of The General to his Lady: The Civil War letters of William Dorsey Pender to Fanny Pender, published in 1965.

Harris followed this with a leading role in the Italian film, Michelangelo Antonioni's Il deserto rosso ( 1964 ), and he also won notice for his role in Sam Peckinpah's Major Dundee ( 1965 ), as an Irish immigrant who became a Confederate cavalryman during the Civil War.

Whereas 78 percent of the articles in the 1931 volume of Journal of Physical Anthropology employed these or similar terms, only 36 percent did so in 1965 ( see African-American Civil Rights Movement ( 1955-1968 )), and just 28 percent did in 1996.

Additionally, Hall was nominated for Morituri ( 1965 ), The Professionals ( 1966 ), In Cold Blood ( 1967 ), The Day of the Locust ( 1975 ), Tequila Sunrise ( 1988 ), Searching for Bobby Fischer ( 1993 ), and A Civil Action ( 1998 ).

The Homophile Movement was influenced by the successful activism of the Civil Rights Movement ( in 1960 the DOB's national president was Cleo Bonner, an African-American ), and higher profile members of the DOB such as Barbara Gittings, Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon began to picket the White House, the State Department, and other federal buildings in 1965 and 1966 with members of the Mattachine Society.