* 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

Of the ten Australians appointed since 1965, Lord Casey, Sir Paul Hasluck and Bill Hayden were former federal parliamentarians ; Sir John Kerr was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales ; Sir Ninian Stephen and Sir William Deane were appointed from the bench of the High Court ; Sir Zelman Cowen was a vice-chancellor of the University of Queensland and constitutional lawyer ; Peter Hollingworth was the Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane ; and Major-General Michael Jeffery was a retired military officer and former Governor of Western Australia.

The Supreme Court of the United States has found that other guarantees have " penumbras " that implicitly grant a right to privacy against government intrusion, for example in Griswold v. Connecticut ( 1965 ).

In 1908, the congregation was renamed the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office and in 1965 it was renamed again and is now known as the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

It would not be until the adoption of the Twenty-fourth Amendment in 1962, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the U. S. Supreme Court's decision in Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections in 1966, that all poll taxes and literacy tests were prohibited in all elections.

The Supreme Court was moved to Islamabad in 1965 and Chief Justice Alvin Robert Cornelius re-located the entire judicial arbiter, personnel and high-profile cases in Islamabad.

* November 15 – Felix Frankfurter, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court ( d. 1965 )

In 1965, The Supreme Court held that this provision was an unconstitutional bill of attainder.

at the Village Vanguard ( 1961 ), Crescent ( 1964 ), A Love Supreme ( 1964 ), and Meditations ( 1965 ).

The district court's decision was based upon the 9th Amendment, and the court relied upon a concurring opinion by Justice Arthur Goldberg in the 1965 Supreme Court case of Griswold v. Connecticut, finding in the decision for a right to privacy.

* Walker Process fraud: Illegal monopolization through the maintenance and enforcement of a patent obtained via fraud on the Patent Office ( the term comes from the Supreme Court case Walker Process Equipment, Inc. v. Food Machinery & Chemical Corp., 382 U. S. 172 ( 1965 )).

The Arizona Supreme Court affirmed the trial court's decision to admit the confession in State v. Miranda, 401 P. 2d 721 ( Ariz. 1965 ).

Ranjit D. Udeshi v. State of Maharashtra ( AIR 1965 SC 881 ) was eventually laid before a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India, where Chief Justice Hidayatullah declared the law on the subject of when a book can be regarded as obscene and established important tests of obscenity such as the Hicklin test.

In 1965, the U. S. Supreme Court case Griswold v. Connecticut struck down one of the remaining contraception Comstock laws in Connecticut and Massachusetts.

* Felix Frankfurter ( 1882 – 1965 ), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court

* Ian Binnie ( 1965 )-Puisne Justice of Supreme Court of Canada, ( 1998-2011 )

In Griswold v. Connecticut ( 1965 ), the Supreme Court struck down a law barring the use of contraceptives by married couples.

( In 1965 the U. S. Supreme Court overturned the conviction and struck down the state statute as unconstitutional.

Sherman " Shay " Minton ( October 20, 1890 – April 9, 1965 ) was a Democratic United States Senator from Indiana and an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

The U. S. Supreme Court decisions in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka ( 1954 ); Powell v. Alabama ( 1932 ); Smith v. Allwright ( 1944 ); Shelley v. Kraemer ( 1948 ); Sweatt v. Painter ( 1950 ); and McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents ( 1950 ) led to a shift in tactics, and from 1955 to 1965, " direct action " was the strategy — primarily bus boycotts, sit-ins, freedom rides, and social movements.

On May 8, 1965 by the decree of the USSR Presidium of the Supreme Soviet International Women's Day was declared a non-working day in the USSR " in commemoration of the outstanding merits of Soviet women in communistic construction, in the defense of their Fatherland during the Great Patriotic War, in their heroism and selflessness at the front and in the rear, and also marking the great contribution of women to strengthening friendship between peoples, and the struggle for peace.

On January 22, 1965, the three-judge district court decided to allow the Lovings to present their constitutional claims to the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals.

Felix Frankfurter ( November 15, 1882 – February 22, 1965 ) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

Other educational institutions currently have large numbers of blacks in their student body, but as they were founded ( or opened their doors to African Americans ) after the implementation of the Sweatt v. Painter and Brown v. Board of Education rulings by the U. S. Supreme Court ( the court decisions which outlawed racial segregation of public education facilities ) and the Higher Education Act of 1965, they are not historically black colleges, but have been termed " predominantly black.

Next he was subsequently Director of the Finance Department ( 1960 – 1966 ), Director of Finance and President of the Electricity Board ( 1961 ), Chair Manama Municipality ( 1962 – 1967 ), Head of the Bahrain Monetary Council ( 1965 ), Chair of the Joint Committee for Economic & Financial Studies, Committee for the Register of Commerce, Administry Council ( 1967 – 1970 ), and Bahrain Monetary Agency, President of the State Council ( 1970 – 1973 ), Head of the State Council ( 1970 ), Prime Minister since 1971, and Head of the Supreme Defence Council ( 1978 ).