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* 1965 – United States occupation of the Dominican Republic: American troops land in the Dominican Republic to " forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship " and to evacuate U. S. Army troops.
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* 1965 – Launch of Early Bird, the first communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit.
* 1965 – Frank Black, American singer-songwriter ( Pixies, Frank Black and the Catholics, and Grand Duchy )
* 1965 – Singapore is expelled from Malaysia and becomes the first and only country to date to gain independence unwillingly.
Albert Schweitzer, OM ( 14 January 1875 – 4 September 1965 ) was a German and then French theologian, organist, philosopher, physician, and medical missionary.
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* 1965 – Vietnam War: Operation Starlite begins – United States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in the first major American ground battle of the war.
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.
After helping United to win the Football League in 1965, he won a World Cup medal with England in 1966 and another Football League title with United the following year.
Busby's post-Munich rebuilding programme continued to progress with two League championships within three seasons, with United taking the title in 1965 and 1967.
* Bloody Sunday ( 1965 ), a violent attack during the first of the Selma to Montgomery marches in Alabama, United States
Full enfranchisement of citizens was not secured until after the African-American Civil Rights Movement ( 1955 – 1968 ) gained passage by the United States Congress of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
* 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.
Diego Garcia became a colony of the United Kingdom after the Napoleonic wars as part of the Treaty of Paris ( 1814 ), and from 1814 – 1965 it was administered from Mauritius.
Diego Garcia and the Chagos Archipelago were administered by the colonial government on the island of Mauritius until 1965, when the United Kingdom purchased them from the self-governing government of Mauritius for £ 3 million, and declared them to be a separate British Overseas Territory.
* 1965 – In the United Kingdom, a 70 mph speed limit is applied to all rural roads including motorways for the first time.
Until the first award of the Air Force Distinguished Service Medal in 1965, United States Air Force personnel received this award as well, as was the case with several other Army decorations until the Air Force fully established its own system of decorations.
Another influential development was a 1965 lawsuit, Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference v. Federal Power Commission, opposing the construction of a power plant on Storm King Mountain, which is said to have given birth to modern United States environmental law.
A " Roaring Forties " replica of a 1965 Ford GT40 in Shelby livery on display at the 2005 United States Grand Prix
As colonial rule was ending throughout the continent and as African-majority governments assumed control in neighbouring Northern Rhodesia and in Nyasaland, the white-minority Rhodesia government led by Ian Smith made a Unilateral Declaration of Independence ( UDI ) from the United Kingdom on 11 November 1965, effectively repudiating the British plan that the country should become a multi-racial democracy.
After ethnic quotas on immigration were removed in 1965 the number of actual ( first-generation ) immigrants living in the United States eventually quadrupled, from 9. 6 million in 1970 to about 38 million in 2007.
* March Intifada, a leftist uprising against the United Kingdom colonial presence in Bahrain in March 1965
* 1965 – The Supreme Court of the United States hands down its decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples.
* 1965 – Vietnam War: The United States uses B-52 bombers to attack National Liberation Front guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam.
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