* 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

He studied at the Royal Academy of Music under Lennox Berkeley, where he was elected a fellow in 1965.

Oliver " The Atomic Bull " McCall ( born April 21, 1965 ) is an American professional Heavyweight boxer best known for winning the WBC heavyweight title in 1994 after scoring an upset knockout victory over Lennox Lewis, in Lewis ' home town of London, England, followed by his infamous in-ring meltdown in the rematch.

In 1965, Lewis directed and ( along with Bill Richmond ) wrote the comedy film The Family Jewels about a young heiress who must choose among six uncles, one of whom is up to no good and out to harm the girl's beloved bodyguard who practically raised her.

Jerry Lewis, 2005Lewis has suffered from a variety of illnesses and addictions related both to aging and a back injury sustained in a comedic pratfall from a piano while performing at the Sands Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip on March 20, 1965.

The Chicago-based AACM, a loose collective of improvising musicians including Muhal Richard Abrams, Henry Threadgill, Anthony Braxton, Jack DeJohnette, Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Famadou Don Moye, Malachi Favors and George Lewis was formed in 1965 and included many of the key players in the nascent international free improv scene.

Numerous films have been made at Twickenham since the end of Hagen's tenure including Carol Reed's The Stars Look Down in 1939, In the 1960s classic films such as Alfie starring Michael Caine, The Italian Job in 1969 with Noël Coward, Roman Polanski's first English language film in 1965 Repulsion ; Be My Guest in 1965, featured Jerry Lee Lewis an early appearance by the young actor Steve Marriott and The Nashville Teens.

Boeing ( 707 ) Boeing ( 707 ) ( alternately titled Boeing Boeing ) is a 1965 American bedroom farce comedy film, based on the 1960 French play Boeing-Boeing, and starring Jerry Lewis and Tony Curtis.

It was released on December 22, 1965, and was the last film Paramount Pictures made with Lewis, who had made films exclusively with the studio since My Friend Irma ( 1949 ).

# Lewis J. Boies ( b. 1920 ), a lawyer ( her divorce lawyer ), married 1963 – 1965.

* M. J. T. Lewis ; How Ffestiniog got its Railway, 1965, revised edn 1968

* Maciste il Vendicatore dei Mayas / Maciste, Avenger of the Mayans ( No American title, 1965 ) ( Note * This Maciste film was made up almost entirely of re-edited stock footage from 2 older Maciste films, Maciste contro i mostri and Maciste contro i cacciatori di teste, so Maciste switches from Kirk Morris to Reg Lewis in various scenes ; this movie is very scarce since it was never distributed in the USA and is not available in English.

* Maciste il Vendicatore dei Mayas / Maciste, Avenger of the Mayans ( no American title, 1965 ) ( Note * This Maciste film was made up almost entirely of re-edited stock footage from 2 older Maciste films, Maciste contro i mostri and Maciste contro i cacciatori di teste, so Maciste switches from Kirk Morris to Reg Lewis in various scenes ; this movie is very scarce since it was never distributed in the USA and is not available in English.

Pianist Ramsey Lewis recorded his The In Crowd album there in 1965.

* At the Half Note Again ( 1965 ) with Cohn, pianist Roger Kellaway, bassist Bill Crow, drummer Mel Lewis.

In 1965 the North Dakota Parks and Recreation Department assumed management of the park and renamed it Lake Sakakawea State Park in honor of the Shoshone / Hidatsa woman Sacagawea who accompanied the Lewis and Clark Expedition up the Missouri River from Fort Mandan in April 1805.

* USS Lewis and Clark ( SSBN-644 ), a United States Navy ballistic missile submarine in commission from 1965 to 1992

On March 7, 1965 — a day that would become known as " Bloody Sunday " – Lewis and fellow activist Hosea Williams led over 600 marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.

7th Grammy Awards | 1965 award winner Marilyn Horne with Double bass | double-bassist and Conducting | conductor Henry Lewis ( musician ) | Henry Lewis in 1961

The show aired on June 28, 1965 and featured performances by many of the popular artists of the day like Jan & Dean, Mary Wells, the Dave Clark Five, Gary Lewis and the Playboys, Diana Ross & The Supremes, Patti LaBelle & the Bluebelles, The Drifters, Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, Ray Charles, Marvin Gaye, The Ronettes, The Righteous Brothers and Little Anthony & the Imperials That show also introduced the first music video-style programming, pre-dating MTV by 15 years.

Notable successes for this model include the 1965 Tulip Rally in which the works Imps of Rosemary Smith and " Tiny " Lewis finished first and second overall.

Epstein had taken over the Vic Lewis agency in 1965, ( bringing in Donovan, Petula Clark and Matt Monro ) and Lewis became a NEMS director, but many staff members found Lewis ' abrasive manner difficult to handle.

* Mickey Lewis ( born 1965 ), English footballer