* 1965 – Malcolm X is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City by members of the Nation of Islam.

In 1962 he was one of the founding members of the University of Sussex and was a Dean between 1965 – 85.

Their feature film for Paramount Pictures, Easy Come, Easy Go, was canceled when Berry, as well as the film's director and other crew members, were seriously injured in a railroad accident while shooting the movie in Chatsworth, California in August 1965.

LeRoy Wilton Homer, Jr. ( August 27, 1965 – September 11, 2001 ) was the First Officer of United Airlines Flight 93, which was hijacked as part of the September 11 attacks in 2001, and crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, killing all 33 passengers and seven crew members.

After being introduced to cannabis by Dylan, members of The Beatles began experimenting with LSD in 1965.

* 1965 – Gambia, Maldives and Singapore are admitted as members of the United Nations.

Annually since 1965, SFWA members select by vote the Nebula Awards for best short story, novelette, novella, and novel published during the previous year, where the four categories are defined by numbers of words.

The main campus in Burnaby, located from downtown Vancouver, was established in 1965 and has more than 35, 000 students and 950 faculty members.

During the 1960s, there were numerous protests against the Vietnam War and related to other issues at the U-M. On March 24, 1965, a group of U-M faculty members and 3, 000 students held the nation's first ever faculty-led " teach-in " to protest against American policy in Southeast Asia.

In one of the most bloody single incidents of violence in Cold War Southeast Asia, General Suharto seized power in Indonesia in 1965 and initiated a massacre of approximately 500, 000 alleged members of the Indonesian Communist Party ( PKI ).

A film adaptation starring Michael Caine was released in 1965 and produced by the James Bond co-producer Harry Saltzman, assisted by several prominent members of the Bond production family.

Afterwards, in concurrence of the National Assembly, Lhendup Dorji and other family members were exiled in 1965.

On June 20, 1964, U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson dedicated UC Irvine before a crowd of 15, 000 people, and on October 4, 1965 the campus began operations with 1, 589 students, 241 staff members, 119 faculty, and 43 teaching assistants.

The 407 or its wheel line printer mechanism was attached to a variety of early IBM computer, including the IBM 650, most members of the IBM 700 / 7000 series and the IBM 1130, the last introduced in 1965.

The members of the original Magic Band had come together in 1965.

In October 1965, after the other members decided that Bob Harvey's bass playing was not up to par, he was replaced by guitarist-bassist Jack Casady, an old friend of Kaukonen from Washington D. C. Casady played his first gig with the Airplane at a college concert in Berkeley, California, two weeks after he arrived in San Francisco.

It covers the years 1965 – 1972 and includes recent interviews with band members and thirteen complete songs ( almost all are vintage performances ).

In 1965, several Project GENIE members, specifically Lampson and Peter Deutsch, developed the Berkeley Timesharing System for Scientific Data Systems ' SDS 940 computer.

On March 25, 1965, civil rights worker Viola Liuzzo was shot to death during a high-speed chase by Ku Klux Klan members on U. S. Route 80, while driving to Montgomery to pick up a group of demonstrators waiting to return to Selma after the Selma-to-Montgomery march.

* 1965: John Mayall Plays John Mayall ( Decca *) ( features future Bluesbreakers members )

The debacle was repeated in 1965 ; this time, when the Speaker left the chair to go to the House of Lords, some members continued to make speeches.

The other members of the Who expelled Daltrey from the band in late 1965 after he beat up drummer Keith Moon for supplying drugs to Townshend and Entwistle, causing him to re-examine his methods of dealing with people.

The group was founded in 1965 by members Steve Marriott, Ronnie Lane, Kenney Jones, and Jimmy Winston, although by 1966 Winston was replaced by Ian McLagan as the band's keyboardist.

At the Newport Folk Festival in July 1965, Bob Dylan was backed by members of Butterfield's band ( Bloomfield, Arnold, and Lay, but not Butterfield himself ) when he went electric, a move considered controversial at the time by much of the folk music establishment.

* In 1965, Robert Manry crossed the Atlantic from the U. S. to England non-stop in a 13. 5 foot ( 4. 05 meters ) sailboat named " Tinkerbell ".

* 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.

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.

Map showing locations of U. S. army aerial herbicide spray missions in South Vietnam taking place from 1965 to 1971

The U. S. military began targeting food crops in October 1962, primarily using Agent Blue ; the American public was not made aware of the crop destruction programs until 1965 ( and it was then believed that crop spraying had begun that spring ).

The U. S. Senate Select Committee chaired by Senator Frank Church ( the Church Committee ) reported in 1975 that it had found " concrete evidence of at least eight plots involving the CIA to assassinate Fidel Castro from 1960 to 1965.

) The Beatles did a cover version of " Words of Love " that was a close reproduction of Holly's version, released on late 1964's Beatles for Sale ( in the U. S., in June 1965 on Beatles VI ).

Some historians have cited the U. S. intervention and bombing campaign ( spanning 1965 – 1973 ) as a significant factor leading to increased support of the Khmer Rouge among the Cambodian peasantry.

" When Congress, in the summer of 1973, legislated an end to U. S. military action in, over, or off the shores of Indochina, the only U. S. military activity then going on was air support of a friendly Cambodian government and army desperately defending their country against a North Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge onslaught ... What destabilized Cambodia was North Vietnam's occupation of chunks of Cambodian territory from 1965 onwards for use as military bases from which to launch attacks on U. S. and South Vietnamese forces in South Vietnam.

According to a 1965 deposition by Fausto Rodriguez, the Cuba Libre was first mixed at a Cuban bar in August 1900 by a member of the U. S. Signal Corps, referred to as " John Doe ".

* 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.

* In 1965, the U. S. Postal Service honored Douglass with a stamp in the Prominent Americans series.

Before joining NASA as a member of the first group of scientist-astronauts in June 1965, he worked at the U. S. Geological Survey's Astrogeology Center at Flagstaff, Arizona, developing geological field techniques that would be used by the Apollo crews.

Until 1965, the Coast Guard used U. S. Navy hull classification codes, prepending a " W " to their beginning.

* 1965 – U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.

* 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.

* 1965 – President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to the Selma crisis, tells U. S. Congress " We shall overcome " while advocating the Voting Rights Act.

The U. S. Army began to field the XM16E1 en masse in 1965 with most of them going to the Republic of Vietnam, and the newly organized and experimental Airmobile Divisions, the 1st Air Cavalry Division in particular.

* 1965 – Several U. S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours in the Northeast Blackout of 1965.

* 1965 – Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned operations are to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam has to be increased from 120, 000 to 400, 000.