* 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

* 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.

* 1965 – Japanese prime minister Eisaku Satō becomes the first post-World War II sitting prime minister to visit Okinawa Prefecture.

* 1965 – The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 begins as Pakistani soldiers cross the Line of Control dressed as locals.

The first major meetings of the national left-wing campus group Students for a Democratic Society took place in Ann Arbor in 1960 ; in 1965, the city was home to the first U. S. teach-in against the Vietnam War.

In common with the rest of the South Wales coalfield, Aberdare's coal industry commenced a long decline after World War I, and the last two deep mines still in operation in the 1960s were the small Aberaman and Fforchaman collieries, which closed in 1962 and 1965 respectively.

The popular view can be summarized in an essay published in 1965, the then Captain Robert O ’ Neill, Professor of the History of War at the Oxford University.

A church was planned in the 1930s but delayed by World War II: the Church of St Mary and St Petroc was eventually consecrated in 1965: it was built next to the already existing seminary.

Examples include Arsenic and Old Lace ( 1944 ), Monsieur Verdoux ( 1947 ), Kind Hearts and Coronets ( 1949 ), The Ladykillers ( 1955 ), Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb ( 1964 ), The Loved One ( 1965 ), MASH ( 1970 ), Monty Python's The Meaning of Life ( 1983 ), Brazil ( 1985 ), The War of the Roses ( 1989 ), Heathers ( 1989 ), Your Friends & Neighbors ( 1998 ), Keeping Mum ( 2005 ), and Burn After Reading ( 2008 ).

* 1965 – Vietnam War: General William Westmoreland sends U. S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara a request for 243, 000 more men by the end of 1966.

* 1966 – Pakistan suggests a six-point agenda with Kashmir after the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.

* 1965 – Vietnam War: The first United States combat troops are sent to South Vietnam.

Henry Saperstein ( whose company UPA co-produced the 1965 film Frankenstein Conquers the World and the 1966 film War of the Gargantuas with Toho ) was so impressed with the octopus sequence that he requested the creature to appear in these two productions.

The Painted Bird, Kosiński's controversial 1965 novel, is a fictional account that depicts the personal experiences of a boy of unknown religious and ethnic background who wanders around unidentified areas of Eastern Europe during World War II and takes refuge among a series of people, many of whom are brutally cruel and abusive, either to him or to others.

In 1965, Jeep developed the M715 1. 25-ton army truck, a militarized version of the civilian J-series Jeep truck, which served extensively in the Vietnam War.

* 1965 – Vietnam War: The Battle of Dong Xoai begins.

* 1965 – Vietnam War: The United States uses B-52 bombers to attack National Liberation Front guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam.

* 1965 – Vietnam War: the first 4, 000 101st Airborne Division paratroopers arrive in Vietnam, landing at Cam Ranh Bay.

* 1965 – Vietnam War: U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces his order to increase the number of United States troops in South Vietnam from 75, 000 to 125, 000.

He enrolled in the Army in search of a disciplined environment, served in the Vietnam War, and was wounded in action on November 19, 1965.

* Jubilee Medal " Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 " ( 1965 )

The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 resulted in a stalemate and a UN-negotiated ceasefire.

* 1965 – Vietnam War: American warships begin the first bombardment of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam.

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

The lesson was re-learned, first by the Pakistani Army in the 1965 War with India, where the nation fielded two different types of armored divisions: one which was almost exclusively armor ( the 1st ) while another was more balanced ( the 6th ).