* 1965 – Greg Dulli, American musician ( The Twilight Singers, The Afghan Whigs, and The Gutter Twins )

The Twins won 102 games and the American League Pennant in 1965, but they were defeated in the 1965 World Series by the Los Angeles Dodgers in seven games ( behind the World Series Most Valuable Player, Sandy Koufax, with a 2 – 1 record, including winning the seventh game ).

Although the Tigers have been the predominant MLB parent of the IL Mud Hens ( 1967 – 73 and since 1987 ), the team has also been affiliated with the Philadelphia Phillies ( 1974 – 75 ), Cleveland Indians ( 1976 – 77 ), Minnesota Twins ( 1978 – 86 ) and the Yankees ( 1965 – 66 ).

Injuries slowed Mantle and the Yankees during the 1965 season, and they finished in 6th, 25 games behind the Minnesota Twins.

** It is likely the 1965 and 1968 Series were preserved by the CBC due to the Twins ' and Tigers ' proximity to Canada ; the country would not get its own MLB team until the Montreal Expos began play in 1969.

Nimrod's city park is named Stigman's Mound, for Dick Stigman, relief pitcher on the 1965 American League Championship-winning Minnesota Twins, who was born in Nimrod.

* Bostock story from author of Cool of the Evening: The 1965 Minnesota Twins

Cool of the Evening: The 1965 Minnesota Twins ( Minneapolis, Minn .: Kirk House Publishers ).

For the next 19 years, the team mirrored the name of its parent major league club, being known through the years as the Tacoma Giants ( 1960 – 1965 ), Tacoma Cubs ( 1966 – 1971 ), Tacoma Twins ( 1972 – 1977 ), and Tacoma Yankees ( 1978 ).

A Twins game at the Met, 1965.

Eighteen teams have all hosted an all-star game at least twice since the Mets last did: Atlanta Braves ( 1972 and 2000 ), Chicago White Sox ( 1983 and 2003 ), Cincinnati Reds ( 1970 and 1988 ), Cleveland Indians ( 1981 and 1997 ), Detroit Tigers ( 1971 and 2005 ), Houston Astros ( 1968, 1986, and 2004 ), Kansas City Royals ( 1973 and 2012 ), Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim ( 1967, 1989, and 2010 ), Milwaukee Brewers ( 1975 and 2002 ), Minnesota Twins ( 1965, 1985, and 2014 ), New York Yankees ( 1977 and 2008 ), Philadelphia Phillies ( 1976 and 1996 ), Pittsburgh Pirates ( 1974, 1994, and 2006 ), San Diego Padres ( 1978 and 1992 ), San Francisco Giants ( 1984 and 2007 ), Seattle Mariners ( 1979 and 2001 ), and St. Louis Cardinals ( 1966 and 2009 ), and Washington Senators / Texas Rangers ( 1969 and 1995 ).

In 1965, he played in the World Series with the Minnesota Twins, who lost to the Los Angeles Dodgers.

The Twins finally won the American League pennant during the 1965 season.

In the 1965 World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers, Killebrew and Zoilo Versalles led the Twins with. 286 batting averages, and Killebrew hit a home run off Don Drysdale in Game 4.

He was set to lead a team that had undergone a lot of change ; Killebrew was one of only four Twins remaining from the 1965 pennant-winning club.

He only wore the restyled earflap for one game though because, as he said, “ it made seeing difficult .” Tony Oliva also wore a makeshift face protector during batting practice, as did the Twins ’ Jimmie Hall in the 1965 World Series.

Moore made his major league debut in relief on May 29, 1965 against the Minnesota Twins.

On October 1, 2000, Halter showed his versatility by playing all nine positions in a single game, joining Bert Campaneris ( Kansas City Athletics, September 8, 1965 ), César Tovar ( Minnesota Twins, September 22, 1968 ) and Scott Sheldon ( Texas Rangers, September 6, 2000 ), in the select list of nine-position players in a Major League game.

During his 12-season career, he played with the Philadelphia and Kansas City Athletics ( 1954 – 58 ); Cleveland Indians ( 1958 – 61 ), Minnesota Twins ( 1962 – 64 ), Los Angeles Angels ( 1964 ), Philadelphia Phillies ( 1964 ) and California Angels ( 1965 ).

During the Twins 1965 World Series season, Allison had a down year, hitting only. 233 in 135 games, and continued his poor production versus the Los Angeles Dodgers, reaching base only 4 times ( two walks, a double, and a home run ) and striking out 9 times in 16 at-bats.

He was one of six Twins to appear in the 1965 mid-season classic ( with Versalles, Killebrew, Jimmie Hall, Mudcat Grant, and Tony Oliva ).

He started every game in the 1965 World Series but only hit for a. 120 average with 2 RBI and only one extra base hit as the Twins lost to the Los Angeles Dodgers in a seven-game series.

He had a pinch-hit single in Game 1 of the 1965 World Series, when the Dodgers defeated the Minnesota Twins.

* 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