* 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

* April 11 – The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: An estimated 51 tornadoes ( 47 confirmed ) hit in 6 Midwestern states, killing between 256 to 271 people and injuring some 1, 500 more.

13 people were killed by three different F4 tornadoes ( on the Fujita scale ) during the 1965 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak on April 11, 1965.

Blackford County endured a category 4 storm on Palm Sunday ( April 11 ) in 1965.

* Palm Beach International Raceway a racing facility built in 1965, and was remodeled in 2008 in and attempt to obtain a FIA Grade II Certification.

On April 11, 1965, during the Palm Sunday tornado outbreak, a large and devastating tornado damaged or destroyed large portions of the city.

Most of the town was destroyed by two violent F4 tornadoes during the Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak on April 11, 1965.

Much of the town was damaged or destroyed on April 11, 1965, by an F4 tornado that was part of the Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak.

Almost all of the town was destroyed on April 11, 1965, by an F4 tornado, which was part of the Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak.

Koontz Lake was devastated by tornadoes as part of the Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak of 1965.

The Manitou Beach region was devastated by an F4 tornado during the Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of April 11, 1965.

He died September 8, 1965 in Palm Beach, Florida.

The second Palm Sunday tornado outbreak occurred on April 11, 1965 and involved 47 tornadoes ( 15 significant, 17 violent, 21 killers ) hitting the Midwest.

This tornadic event ranks in severity with the Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965.

The last time they were hit was during the 1965 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak.

Unlike the Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of April 11, 1965, this outbreak was mainly confined to the Southeastern United States.

As Hurricane Betsy approached the east coast of Florida on September 7, 1965, the Panamanian-registered Greek freighter Amaryllis, bound from Manchester, England to New Orleans with a Greek crew of 30, sought refuge in the Port of Palm Beach in Riviera Beach, Florida, but as she approached the Palm Beach Inlet from the Atlantic Ocean into the port, she suffered steering problems in addition to the high winds and seas, which resulted in her being forced into the shallow waters laced with coral reefs north of the inlet.

He served with the Marines from 1965 to 1969, earning two Purple Hearts, Combat Action Ribbon, two Presidential Unit Citations, Good Conduct Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal with three stars, Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Silver Star, Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm Leaf, and Vietnam Campaign Medal during two tours in Vietnam.

Nomos Alpha is a piece for solo cello composed by Iannis Xenakis in 1965, commissioned by Radio Bremen for cellist Siegfried Palm, and dedicated to mathematicians Aristoxenus of Tarentum, Évariste Galois, and Felix Klein.

* Civil Actions Medal, First Class Color with Palm ( 1 Jan 1965 to 28 Mar 1973 )

The lighthouse keeper's headquarters were demolished, and the island suffered further damage from strong winds and waves during the 1965 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak.

The only thing that remains of the 1866 Turtle Island Light is the tower, although the top of the tower was blown off during a tornado on Palm Sunday in 1965, exposing the iron spikes that once held in the place the lantern.