* 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 – 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 early 1965, he co-founded The Velvet Underground with Lou Reed, recruiting Reed's college friend Sterling Morrison and Cale's flatmate Angus Maclise to complete the initial line-up.

In 1965 Sterling received its first Caravelle, and in 1968 the company was bought out of the Tjæreborg Group and started servicing other travel agents as well.

As far back as 1962 Tony Conrad, Theatre of Eternal Music member, lived and worked at 56 Ludlow and in 1965 Lou Reed, John Cale and Sterling Morrison of The Velvet Underground lived and recorded there.

He became a Sterling Professor, one of Yale's highest distinctions, in 1965.

These included the Tebtunis Archive of ancient papyri, excavated by an Egyptian expedition funded by Phoebe Apperson Hearst in 1899-1900 and the largest such collection in the Western Hemisphere ; the papers of Mark Twain, the object of the Mark Twain Project, which since 1965 has been editing everything written by him ; a large collection of medieval manuscripts, incunabula, and rare printed books from the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries ; and the literary manuscripts of such California writers as Ina Coolbrith, California's first poet laureate, George Sterling, figures associated with the Beat Generation in San Francisco, such as Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, Philip Lamantia, Philip Whalen, and William Everson ( Brother Antoninus ), and contemporary authors such as John Mortimer, Sean O ' Faolain, Maxine Hong Kingston and Joan Didion.

In late 1992, the Velvet Underground 1965 – 1968 core line-up of Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison and Maureen Tucker suddenly decided to reform.

In April, 1965, the company was renamed Federal-Mogul Corporation following a merger with Sterling Aluminum Products.

Stokoe used it for his 1965 A Dictionary of American Sign Language on Linguistic Principles, the first dictionary with entries in ASL — that is, the first dictionary which one could use to look up a sign without first knowing its conventional gloss in English.

* 1965 – El Hefe, American guitarist ( NOFX )

* 1965 – Jon Cryer, American actor

* 1965 – Martin Lawrence, American actor

* 1965 – Brannon Braga, American screenwriter and producer

* Adrian Pasdar ( born 1965 ), American actor and film director

* 1965 – Rob Thomas, American writer

* 1862 – Amos Alonzo Stagg, American baseball player and coach ( d. 1965 )

* 1965 – Peter Krause, American actor

* 1965 – Vietnam War: Operation Starlite begins – United States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in the first major American ground battle of the war.

* 1870 – Bernard Baruch, American financier ( d. 1965 )

* 1965 – Kevin Dillon, American actor

* 1965 – Kyra Sedgwick, American actress

* 1965 – Jim Bullinger, American baseball player

* 1965 – Caryn Mower, American wrestler, actress, and stuntwoman

* 1965 – Cornelius Bennett, American football player

* 1965 – Mia Zapata, American singer ( The Gits ) ( d. 1993 )

* 1965 – United States occupation of the Dominican Republic: American troops land in the Dominican Republic to " forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship " and to evacuate U. S. Army troops.