* 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 – 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

It has been used as an anticonvulsant and antiepileptic in the UK since 1965, and has been approved in the US since 1974.

To accomplish the UK / US mutual defense strategy, in November 1965, the UK purchased the Chagos Archipelago, which includes Diego Garcia, from the then self-governing colony of Mauritius for £ 3 million to create the British Indian Ocean Territory ( BIOT ), with the intent of ultimately closing the plantations to provide the uninhabited British territory from which the US would conduct its military activities in the region.

* 1965 – Jim Carr ( US ), Digital Strategist

1965 US Postage Stamp, published during the upsurge of the Civil Rights Movement

* 1965 – The US and South Vietnamese Air Force begin Operation Rolling Thunder, a sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam.

* 1965 – Vietnam War: A car bomb explodes in front of the US Embassy, Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others.

Without a hit in the US by 1965, she was on the verge of being dropped.

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch is a 1965 novel by US science fiction writer Philip K. Dick.

Sometimes, as with the US civil rights movement's march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965, they have called for armed protection.

Under the pseudonym " Adam Hall ", Trevor Dudley-Smith wrote the Quiller spy novel series, beginning with The Berlin Memorandum ( US: The Quiller Memorandum, 1965 ), a hybrid of glamour and dirt, Fleming and Le Carré.

The US Office of Public Safety ( OPS ) began operating in Uruguay in 1965.

In explaining his refusal to be conscripted to fight the Vietnam War ( 1965 – 75 ), professional boxer Muhammed Ali said, " No Vietcong ever called me nigger "; later, his modified answer was the title No Vietnamese Ever Called Me Nigger ( 1968 ) of a documentary about the front-line lot of the US Army Black soldier in combat in Vietnam.

If the demand for power exceeds the supply, generation plants and transmission equipment can shut down which, in the worst cases, can lead to a major regional blackout, such as occurred in the US Northeast blackouts of 1965, 1977, 2003, and in 1996 and 2011.

Following a successful Vietcong hit and run attack on the US installations at Pleiku on February 7, 1965 ( where 7 Americans were killed and 109 wounded ), Humphrey returned from Georgia to Washington D. C., to attempt to prevent further escalation.

The Grove Press edition ( US, 1965 ) was translated by publisher Richard Seaver ( who had lived in France for many years ) under the pseudonym Sabine d ' Estree.

* Between 1965 and 1968 production of 2, 4, 5-trichlorophenol in Spolana Neratovice plant in Czechoslovakia seriously poisoned about 60 workers with dioxins ; after 3 years of investigations of the health problems of workers, Spolana stopped manufacture of 2, 4, 5-T ( most of which was supplied to the US military in Vietnam ).

The USSR defeated the nationalist Hungarian Revolution of 1956, and the USA precipitated the US – Vietnam War ( 1965 – 1975 ) by participating in the Vietnamese Civil War ( 1955 – 1965 ) that the National Liberation Front fought against the Republic of Vietnam, the Asian client state of the United States.

His son, Mark Brzezinski ( b. 1965 ), a lawyer who served on President Clinton's National Security Council as an expert on Russia and Southeastern Europe and who was a partner in McGuire Woods LLP, serves as the US ambassador to Sweden.

*" Apples and Bananas " ( US # 75, April 1965, AC # 17, 1965 )

The system appeared to be entirely workable when the project was shut down in 1965, the main reason being given that the Partial Test Ban Treaty made it illegal ( however, before the treaty, the US and Soviet Union had already detonated at least nine nuclear bombs, including thermonuclear bombs, in space, i. e., at altitudes over 100 km: see high altitude nuclear explosions ).