* 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

* 1969 – Capital punishment in the United Kingdom: Home Secretary James Callaghan's motion to make permanent the Murder ( Abolition of Death Penalty ) Act 1965, which had temporarily suspended capital punishment in England, Wales and Scotland for murder ( but not for all crimes ) for a period of five years.

** The Murder ( Abolition of Death Penalty ) Act 1965 is given Royal Assent, suspending the death penalty for murder in the United Kingdom ; renewal of the Act in 1969 made the abolition permanent.

* Southern Justice ( Murder in Mississippi ) ( 1965 )

Other private member's bills to have been enacted include the Adoption Act 1964, the Murder ( Abolition of Death Penalty ) Act 1965, the Charter Trustees Act 1986, the Law Reform ( Year and a Day Rule ) Act 1996, the Knives Act 1997, the British Nationality ( Hong Kong ) Act 1997, the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003, the Gangmasters ( Licensing ) Act 2004, the Sustainable Communities Act 2006.

* How to Murder Your Wife ( 1965 ) as Charles

Hastings has been portrayed on film and television by several actors, including Robert Morley in The Alphabet Murders ( 1965 ); Jonathan Cecil in three TV films-Thirteen at Dinner ( 1985 ), Dead Man's Folly ( 1986 ), and Murder in Three Acts ( 1986 ); and most notably, Hugh Fraser, who has portrayed Hastings alongside David Suchet's Poirot in 41 of the 49 episodes of Agatha Christie's Poirot broadcast up until 2003.

He wrote much background and theme music for motion pictures, including the films Sex and the Single Girl, How to Murder Your Wife ( 1965 ), Synanon, Boeing Boeing ( 1965 ), Lord Love a Duck ( 1966 ), Duel at Diablo ( 1966 ), The Odd Couple ( 1968 ), Barefoot in the Park ( 1967 ) and Harlow ( 1965 ), for which he received two Grammy nominations for the song " Girl Talk ".

* Where Murder Waits ( 1965 )

Since appearing in the widely-popular Sound of Music, Plummer has appeared in a vast number of notable films, including Inside Daisy Clover ( 1965 ), The Night of the Generals ( cameo as Field Marshal Erwin Rommel ) ( 1967 ), Oedipus the King ( 1968 ), The Royal Hunt of the Sun ( 1969 ), Battle of Britain ( 1970 ), Waterloo ( 1970 ), The Man Who Would Be King ( 1975 ), The Return of the Pink Panther ( 1975 ), The Silent Partner ( 1978 ), International Velvet ( 1978 ), Murder by Decree ( 1979 ), Somewhere in Time ( 1980 ), Eyewitness ( 1981 ), Dragnet ( 1987 ), Shadow Dancing ( 1988 ), Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country ( 1991 ), Malcolm X ( 1992 ), Wolf ( 1994 ), Dolores Claiborne ( 1995 ), 12 Monkeys ( 1995 ), Syriana ( 2005 ), The New World ( 2005 ), and The Lake House ( 2006 ).

And two films, A Study in Terror ( 1965 ) and Murder by Decree ( 1979 ), which includes scenes of lurid gore, put Holmes in pursuit of the mysterious real-life serial murderer Jack the Ripper.

Her subsequent long-running West End hits include an all-star production of Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband ( 1965 / 66, in which she played the villainous Mrs Cheveley ), W. Somerset Maugham's Lady Frederick ( 1970 ), Relative Values ( Noël Coward revival, 1973 ), and the thrillers Spider's Web ( 1955, written for her by Agatha Christie ), Signpost to Murder ( 1962 ), and Double Edge ( 1975 ).

The death penalty had already been abolished for all civilian offences, including murder ( Murder ( Abolition of Death Penalty ) Act 1965 ) and treason ( Crime and Disorder Act 1998 ), but remained in force for certain military offences ( although these provisions had not been used for several decades ).

Holmes also dealt with the notorious Whitechapel serial killer Jack the Ripper in A Study in Terror in 1965 and Murder by Decree in 1978.

* The Murder Game ( 1965 )

* How to Murder Your Wife ( 1965 )

* How to Murder Your Wife ( 1965 )

He also produced such films as the comedy Paris, When It Sizzles ( 1964 ) with Audrey Hepburn and William Holden, How to Murder Your Wife ( 1965 ) with Jack Lemmon, Synanon ( 1966 ), and Hotel ( 1967 ).

* Pageant of Murder, ( London: Michael Joseph, 1965 )

Two collections of his poetry were published, The Loss of India ( 1964 ) and Jets From Orange ( 1967 ), along with an autobiography called Confessions of a Native-Alien ( 1965 ) and his first two novels, The Contradictions ( 1966 ) and The Murder of Aziz Khan ( 1969 ).

Jason Gedrick ( born Jason Michael Gedroic on February 7, 1965, in Chicago, Illinois ) is an American actor best known for his work on the television series Murder One and Boomtown and the motion picture Iron Eagle.

In 1965 he successfully piloted the Murder ( Abolition of Death Penalty ) Bill through Parliament, abolishing capital punishment for murder in Britain and in the British Armed Forces for a period of five years, but with provision for abolition to be made permanent by affirmative resolutions of both Houses of Parliament before the expiry of the period ; appropriate resolutions were passed in 1969.