* 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

* 1965 – After taking evasive maneuvers to avoid a mid-air collision immediately after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean and explodes, killing everyone aboard.

LeRoy Wilton Homer, Jr. ( August 27, 1965 – September 11, 2001 ) was the First Officer of United Airlines Flight 93, which was hijacked as part of the September 11 attacks in 2001, and crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, killing all 33 passengers and seven crew members.

One Flight Up features an extended solo by Gordon on the track " Tanya " recorded in Paris in 1964 with trumpeter Donald Byrd, while Gettin ' Around was recorded during a visit back to the US in May 1965, as was the unreleased album Clubhouse.

* D. S. Halacy, Jr., Father of Supersonic Flight: Theodor von Kármán ( 1965 ).

Work performed by Trident Engineering Associates ( Annapolis, Maryland ) under contract NAS 5-9613 dated June 1, 1965, Goddard Space Flight Center ( Grinbelt, Maryland ).

* On June 28, 1965, Pan Am Flight 843, a Boeing 707 had its engine turbine disintegrate, which took out the engine and one third of the wing was lost after taking off from San Francisco.

* The Rolling Stones: organ on " Time Is on My Side " ( 1964 ), " You Can Make It If You Try " ( 1964 ), " Empty Heart " ( 1964 ), " If You Need Me " ( 1964 ), " Stupid Girl " ( 1966 ), and " It's Not Easy " ( 1966 ); piano on " Stoned " ( 1963 ), " Around and Around " ( 1964 ), " Confessin ' the Blues " ( 1964 ), " Down the Road Apiece " ( 1965 ), " That's How Strong My Love Is " ( 1965 ), " Flight 505 " ( 1966 ), " Connection " ( 1967 ), " My Obsession " ( 1967 ), " Honky Tonk Women " ( 1969 ), " Let It Bleed " ( 1969 ), " Little Queenie " ( live ) ( 1970 ), " Brown Sugar " ( 1971 ), " Dead Flowers " ( 1971 ), " Sweet Virginia " ( 1972 ), " Silver Train " ( 1973 ), " Star Star " ( 1973 ), " It's Only Rock ' n Roll ( But I Like It )" ( 1974 ), " Short and Curlies " ( 1974 ), " Summer Romance " ( 1980 ), " Black Limousine " ( 1981 ), and " Twenty Flight Rock " ( live ) ( 1982 ).

* July 8, 1965: Flight 21 ( CP21 ) Douglas DC-6B crashed near Dog Creek, British Columbia when a bomb blew its tail section away.

* Seat and Aircraft-930 lives saved a 1965 Flight advertisement for the Martin-Baker Mk.

* February 8, 1965 – Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 crashes at Jones Beach when after takeoff from JFK it is forced to evade inbound PanAm Flight 212.

* Manned Space Flight Network Performance Analysis for the GT-2 Mission-NASA-May 14, 1965 ( PDF format )

* American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics ( AIAA ) Pioneer of Flight Award 1965

The Museum of Flight can trace its roots back to the Pacific Northwest Aviation Historical Foundation, which was founded in 1965 to recover and restore a 1929 Boeing 80A-1, which had been discovered in a landfill in Anchorage, Alaska.

( 1962 ), Hush … Hush, Sweet Charlotte ( 1964 ), The Flight of the Phoenix ( 1965 ), The Dirty Dozen ( 1967 ), and The Longest Yard ( 1974 ).

* The Flight of the Phoenix ( 1965 ) ( director, producer )

The facility was renamed again to Mississippi Test Facility on July 1, 1965, became a part of the Marshall Space Flight Center on June 14, 1974 and renamed National Space Technology Laboratories a name that continued until May 20, 1988 when it was renamed for Mississippi senator and space program supporter John C. Stennis.

* Flight Test Report Apollo Mission Pad Abort 2-September 1965 ( PDF )

* On July 1, 1965, Continental Airlines Flight 12 from Los Angeles International Airport landed in heavy rain and was unable to stop due to hydroplaning.

Rozhdestvensky was selected as a cosmonaut on October 23, 1965 and flew as Flight Engineer on Soyuz 23.

During the early stages of his career he worked with the Boulting Brothers on Private's Progress and Carlton-Browne of the F. O .. His performance as Crow in The Flight of the Phoenix ( 1965 ) earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor, making him the first Scottish actor to receive this honour ; he also received a Golden Globe nomination for New Star of the Year-Actor.