* 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

In 1965 Pope Paul VI decreed in his motu proprio Ad Purpuratorum Patrum that patriarchs of the Eastern Catholic Churches who were named cardinals would also be part of the episcopal order, ranked after the six cardinal bishops of the suburbicarian sees ( who had been relieved of direct responsibilities for those sees by Pope John XXIII three years earlier ).

In recent times, its teaching has been most notably expressed in the Vatican II council documents Unitatis Redintegratio ( 1964 ), Lumen Gentium ( 1964 ), Nostra aetate ( 1965 ), an encyclical issued by Pope John Paul II: Ut Unum Sint ( 1995 ), and in a document issued by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Dominus Iesus in 2000.

" The attempt by some twentieth-century Catholic theologians to present the Eucharistic change as an alteration of significance ( transignification rather than transubstantiation ) was rejected by Pope Paul VI in his 1965 encyclical letter Mysterium fidei In his 1968 Credo of the People of God, he reiterated that any theological explanation of the doctrine must hold to the twofold claim that, after the consecration, 1 ) Christ's body and blood are really present ; and 2 ) bread and wine are really absent ; and this presence and absence is real and not merely something in the mind of the believer.

* 1965 – Nostra Aetate, the " Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions " of the Second Vatican Council, is promulgated by Pope Paul VI ; it absolves the Jews of responsibility for the death of Jesus, reversing Innocent III's 760 year-old declaration.

* 1965 – Becoming the first Pope to ever visit the United States of America and the Western hemisphere, Pope Paul VI arrives in New York.

He surprised those who expected him to be a caretaker Pope by calling the historic Second Vatican Council ( 1962 – 1965 ).

In 1965 the Catholic Herald quoted Pope John as saying:

While works such as Susan Zuccotti's Under His Very Windows: The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy ( 2000 ) and Michael Phayer's The Catholic Church and the Holocaust, 1930 – 1965 ( 2000 ) are critical of both Cornwell and Pius XII ; Ronald J. Rychlak's Hitler, the War and the Pope is critical as well but defends Pius XII in light of his access to most recent documents.

It opened under Pope John XXIII on 11 October 1962 and closed under Pope Paul VI on 8 December 1965.

Pope Paul VI opened the last period of the Council on 14 September 1965 with the establishment of the Synod of Bishops.

At the Second Vatican Council ( 1962 – 1965 ) the debate on papal primacy and authority re-emerged, and in the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, the Roman Catholic Church's teaching on the authority of the Pope, bishops and councils was further elaborated.

Video art is often said to have begun when Nam June Paik used his new Sony Portapak to shoot footage of Pope Paul VI's procession through New York City in the autumn of 1965.

* Pope John XXIII calls the Second Vatican Council of the Catholic Church, continued by Pope Paul VI, which met from October 11, 1962, until December 8, 1965.

In 1965, those excommunications are rescinded by Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras when they meet in the Second Vatican Council.

Gregory's demand that Berengarius perform a confession of this belief was quoted in Pope Paul VI's historic 1965 encyclical Mysterium Fidei:

Dei Verbum ( official title of the Vatican's English translation: Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation – Dei Verbum ) was promulgated by Pope Paul VI on November 18, 1965, following approval by the assembled bishops by a vote of 2, 344 to 6.

Approved by a vote of 2, 307 to 75 of the bishops assembled at the council, it was promulgated by Pope Paul VI on 7 December 1965, the day the council ended.

One of the shorter documents of the Council, the decree was approved by a vote of 2, 321 to 4 of the assembled bishops, and promulgated by Pope Paul VI on October 28, 1965.

Approved by a vote of 2, 318 to 3 of the bishops assembled at the council, the decree was promulgated by Pope Paul VI on October 28, 1965.

Promulgated by Pope Paul VI on December 7, 1965, it had been earlier approved by the assembled bishops by a vote of 2, 390 to 4.