* 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 – The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair closes after a two year run.

View of the 1964 New York World's Fair from the observation towers of the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair New York State Pavilion | New York State Pavilion ; the Unisphere is in the center, Shea Stadium background left. The 1964 / 1965 New York World's Fair was the third major world's fair to be held in New York City.

* Lunsford, Terry F. The " Free Speech " Crises at Berkeley, 1964-1965: Some Issues for Social and Legal Research, A Report form the Center for Research and Development in Higher Education, University of California, Berkeley, December 1965.

The battalion served in Wuppertal, West Germany from 1961 to 1964, Berlin 1964-1965, then again in Aden from September 1965 until September 1966.

Originally released in very late 1965 and compiled from various recordings made over the years 1964-1965, it compiles what Clement Coxsone Dodd considered the best Wailers recordings from this period.

* 1965 – The Beatles play to nearly 60, 000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York, New York, an event later regarded as the birth of stadium rock.

* 1965 – The Constitution of Cook Islands comes into force, giving the Cook Islands self-governing status within New Zealand.

Riding a wave of international popularity, and despite his declining health, he travelled to the United States in 1965 for an exhibition of his works at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

New York: Scribners, 1965.

* Fuller, Reginald H. The Foundations of New Testament Christology Scribners ( 1965 ).

* " The Popes and the Jews in the Middle Ages ," Edward A. Synan, Macmillan, New York, 1965

By 1900, administrative control was transferred to New Zealand ; in 1965 residents chose self-government in free association with New Zealand.

They remained a New Zealand protectorate until 1965, at which point they became a self-governing territory in free association with New Zealand.

1965 — The Cook Islands become a self-governing territory in free association with New Zealand.

The Constitution of the Cook Islands took effect on August 4, 1965, when the Cook Islands became a self-governing territory in free association with New Zealand.

New York: Scribners, 1965.

Eisenhower College was a small, liberal arts college chartered in Seneca Falls, New York in 1965, with classes beginning in 1968.

* Martin Davis, " The Undecidable, Basic Papers on Undecidable Propositions, Unsolvable Problems And Computable Functions ", Raven Press, New York, 1965.

by Columbia University Press, New York, 1965.

Despite the foundation of the Kuratorium Junger Deutscher Film ( Young German Film Committee ) in 1965, set up under the auspices of the Federal Ministry of the Interior to support new German films financially, the directors of this New German Cinema, who rejected co-operation with the existing film industry, were consequently often dependent on money from television.

* 1965 – Malcolm X is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City by members of the Nation of Islam.

* 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.

In December 1965, The New York Times reported on a conference Singer hosted in Miami Beach during which five groups of scientists, working independently, presented research identifying what they believed was the remains of a primordial flash that occurred when the universe was born.

Like its neighboring country, Australia, sources in New Zealand, including the country's labour statistics, locates Generation X between 1965 and 1981.

He also appeared in three major TV specials: New York, New York ( 1966 ), The Julie Andrews ' Show ( 1965 ), and Jack and the Beanstalk ( 1967 ) a show he produced and directed which returned to a combination of cartoon animation with live dance, winning him an Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program.