* 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 – 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 – Wayne Pacelle, American humanitarian

* 1965 – Wayne Smith, Jamaican musician

* 1965 – Wayne Static, American musician ( Static-X )

Pickens appeared in dozens of films, including Old Oklahoma Plains ( 1952 ), Down Laredo Way ( 1953 ), One-Eyed Jacks ( 1961 ) with Marlon Brando, Dr. Strangelove ( 1964 ), Major Dundee ( 1965 ) with Charlton Heston, the remake of Stagecoach ( 1966 ; Pickens played the driver, portrayed in the 1939 film by Andy Devine ), Never a Dull Moment ( 1968 ), The Cowboys ( 1972 ) with John Wayne, Ginger in the Morning ( 1974 ) with Fred Ward, Blazing Saddles ( 1974 ), Poor Pretty Eddy ( 1975 ), Rancho Deluxe ( 1975 ), The Getaway with Steve McQueen, Tom Horn ( 1980 ), also with McQueen, An Eye for an Eye ( 1966 ) and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid ( 1973 ) in a small but memorable role.

* Wayne DeAngelo ( born 1965 ), member of the New Jersey General Assembly and former Hamilton Township Councilman.

He teamed up again with Wayne in The Sons of Katie Elder ( 1965 ), somewhat unconvincingly cast as brothers.

He also appeared in the 1965 war film In Harm's Way, together with John Wayne and Kirk Douglas.

Whitman also starred with John Wayne in the Western movie, The Comancheros, in 1961, and received top billing as the romantic lead in the extravagant aerial epic Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines in 1965.

In addition to his recording career, Nelson appeared in movies, including the Howard Hawks western classic Rio Bravo with John Wayne, Dean Martin, and Walter Brennan ( 1959 ), plus The Wackiest Ship In the Army ( 1960 ) with Jack Lemmon and Love and Kisses ( 1965 ) with Jack Kelly.

The character portrayed by Carroll O ' Connor in the 1965 film, In Harm's Way, starring John Wayne, was modeled after Arleigh Burke.

It was developed by meteorologist Wayne Palmer, who first published his method in the 1965 paper Meteorological Drought for the Office of Climatology of the U. S. Weather Bureau.

The Wayne State University Board of Governors created the Institute of Gerontology in 1965 in response to a mandate of the State of Michigan.

Other famous New Jersey jazzmen include bandleader Count Basie, saxmen Wayne Shorter and James Moody and trumpeter Woody Shaw of Newark, and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie who lived in Englewood from 1965 until his death in 1993.

Beside Wood, the original five-piece line-up of The Move in 1965 was drummer Bev Bevan, bassist Kefford, vocalist Carl Wayne and guitarist Trevor Burton.

In 1965 The Wayne & Shuster Hour won the Silver Rose at the Rose d ' Or Television Festival.

In 1965, the duo made a series of six short documentaries about comedians such as W. C. Fields and the Marx Brothers, titled Wayne and Shuster Take an Affectionate Look At ..., which were telecast on CBS in the summer of 1966.

He appeared in more than 200 films, including The Big Trail ( 1930 ), with John Wayne ; The Scarlet Letter ( 1934 ), with Colleen Moore ; Sitting Bull ( 1954 ), as Crazy Horse ; The Light in the Forest ( 1958 ) as Cuyloga ; " The Great Sioux Massacre " ( 1965 ), with Joseph Cotten ; Nevada Smith ( 1966 ), with Steve McQueen ; A Man Called Horse ( 1970 ), with Richard Harris ; and Ernest Goes to Camp ( 1987 ), as Chief St.

On July 3, 1965, the new Fort Wayne Children's Zoo opened on with 18 animal exhibits.

* Lunt, Richard D., The High Ministry of Government: The Political Career of Frank Murphy ( Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1965 ) ( PhD diss.

" Based on thesis, University of Chicago., Wayne State University Press, 1965.

His jazz career began to take off in the mid-1960s, after he moved to New York, when he began playing and recording with a number of significant musicians including Miles Davis, Andrew Hill, Sam Rivers, Jackie McLean ( 1964 ), Wayne Shorter ( 1965 – 66 ), Charles Lloyd ( 1966 ), Yusef Lateef ( 1967 – 69 ), Keith Jarrett, Freddie Hubbard and Woody Shaw ( 1986 ), and Alice Coltrane ( 1969 – 1972 ).

The six-foot-one-inch ( 1. 85-m ) Boone continued to appear in movies, typically as the villain, including The Raid ( 1954 ), Man Without a Star ( 1955 King Vidor ), The Tall T ( 1957 Budd Boetticher ), The War Lord ( 1965 Franklin Schaffner ), Hombre ( 1967 Martin Ritt ), The Arrangement ( 1969 Elia Kazan ), The Kremlin Letter ( 1970 John Huston ), Big Jake ( 1971 Michael Wayne ), and The Shootist ( 1976 Don Siegel ).

For the first half of the season, The Pruitts of Southampton followed ABC's unsuccessful The Rounders starring Ron Hayes, Patrick Wayne, and Chill Wills, loosely based on a 1965 film of the same name.

* Cantor Charles Romalis, first and only Cantor of Temple Beth Tikvah in Wayne, NJ ( 1965 – present )