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  1. Xanana Gusmão

    1st Marriage

    1965Timor-Leste

    During this time, he married Emilia Batista, with whom he had a son Eugenio, and a daughter Zenilda.

  2. Ayman al-Zawahiri

    Joining the Muslim Brotherhood

    1965Cairo, Egypt

    By the age of 14, al-Zawahiri had joined the Muslim Brotherhood. al-Zawahiri, along with four other secondary school students, helped form an "underground cell devoted to overthrowing the government and establishing an Islamist state." It was at this early age that al-Zawahiri developed a mission in life, "to put Qutb's vision into action."His cell eventually merged with others to form al-Jihad or Egyptian Islamic Jihad.

  3. Che Guevara

    To Congo

    1965Congo

    Guevara traveled to Congo using the alias Ramón Benítez.

  4. Communist insurgency in Sarawak

    Federal Government had built three permanent settlements

    1965Sarawak, Malaysia

    By the end of 1965, the Federal Government had built three permanent settlements at Siburan, Beratok, and Tapah to replace the five temporary settlements, which covered 600 acres and were designed to accommodate 8,000 inhabitants.

  5. Mobile Phones

    IMTS

    1965New York, U.S.

    AT&T introduced the first major improvement to mobile telephony in 1965, giving the improved service the obvious name of Improved Mobile Telephone Service. IMTS used additional radio channels, allowing more simultaneous calls in a given geographic area, introduced customer dialing, eliminating manual call setup by an operator, and reduced the size and weight of the subscriber equipment. Despite the capacity improvement offered by IMTS, demand outstripped capacity. In agreement with state regulatory agencies, AT&T limited the service to just 40,000 customers system wide. In New York City, for example, 2,000 customers shared just 12 radio channels and typically had to wait 30 minutes to place a call.

  6. Carlos Slim

    Inversora Bursátil

    1965Mexico City, Mexico

    In 1965, profits from Slim's private investments reached US$400,000, allowing him to start the stock brokerage Inversora Bursátil.

  7. Carlos Slim

    Jarritos Del Sur

    1965Mexico

    In 1965, Slim bought Jarritos del Sur.

  8. Juan Trippe

    The Tony Jannus Award

    1965Tampa, Florida, U.S.

    In 1965, Trippe received the Tony Jannus Award for his distinguished contributions to commercial aviation.

  9. Statue of Liberty

    Ellis Island

    1965New York, U.S.

    Ellis Island was made part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument by proclamation of President Lyndon Johnson in 1965.

  10. Joe Biden

    Double Major Bachelor

    1965Delaware, U.S.

    He earned his bachelor's in 1965 from the University of Delaware, with a double major in history and political science, graduating with a class rank of 506 out of 688. His classmates were impressed by his cramming abilities, and he played halfback with the Blue Hens freshman football team. In 1964, while on spring break in the Bahamas, he met and began dating Neilia Hunter, who was from an affluent background in Skaneateles, New York, and attended Syracuse University. He told her that he aimed to become a senator by the age of 30 and then president. He dropped a junior year plan to play for the varsity football team as a defensive back, enabling him to spend more time visiting out of state with her.

  11. Nike, Inc.

    Acquiring a Full-Time Employee

    1965Oregon, U.S.

    By 1965 the fledgling company had acquired a full-time employee, and sales had reached $20,000.

  12. Muhammad Yunus

    Receiving a Fulbright Scholarship

    1965Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.

    In 1965, he received a Fulbright scholarship to study in the United States.

  13. Computer animation

    Michael Noll

    1965Murray Hill, New Jersey, United States

    In 1965, Michael Noll created computer-generated stereographic 3D movies, including a ballet of stick figures moving on a stage. Some movies also showed four-dimensional hyper-objects projected to three dimensions.

  14. Computer animation

    The University of Utah

    1965Utah, U.S.

    Utah was a major center for computer animation in this period. The computer science faculty was founded by David Evans in 1965, and many of the basic techniques of 3D computer graphics were developed here in the early 1970s with ARPA funding (Advanced Research Projects Agency). Research results included Gouraud, Phong, and Blinn shading, texture mapping, hidden surface algorithms, curved surface subdivision, real-time line-drawing, and raster image display hardware, and early virtual reality work.

  15. Charles de Gaulle

    De Gaulle refused to participate in any future NATO maneuvers

    1965France

    In 1965, de Gaulle pulled France out of SEATO, the southeast Asian equivalent of NATO, and refused to participate in any future NATO maneuvers.

  16. Edward VIII

    Edward returned to London

    1965London, England, United Kingdom

    In 1965 the Duke and Duchess returned to London. They were visited by Elizabeth II, his sister-in-law Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, and his sister Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood. A week later, the Princess Royal died, and they attended her memorial service.

  17. Winston Churchill

    Death

    Sunday Jan 24, 1965London, England, United Kingdom

    Churchill suffered his final stroke on 12 January 1965. He died nearly two weeks later on the 24th, which was the seventieth anniversary of his father's death.

  18. Winston Churchill

    Funeral

    Saturday Jan 30, 1965England, United Kingdom

    Churchill was given a state funeral six days later on 30 January, the first for a non-royal person since W. E. Gladstone in 1898. Planning for Churchill's funeral had begun in 1953 under the code-name of "Operation Hope Not" and a detailed plan had been produced by 1958. His coffin lay in state at Westminster Hall for three days and the funeral ceremony was at St Paul's Cathedral. Afterwards, the coffin was taken by boat along the River Thames to Waterloo Station and from there by a special train to the family plot at St Martin's Church, Bladon, near his birthplace at Blenheim Palace.

  19. Vietnam War

    Attack on a U.S. Army base

    Sunday Feb 7, 1965Pleiku, South Vietnam

    The National Security Council recommended a three-stage escalation of the bombing of North Vietnam. Following an attack on a U.S. Army base in Pleiku on 7 February 1965, a series of air strikes was initiated.

  20. Neil Armstrong

    The backup Crew for Gemini 5

    Monday Feb 8, 1965Washington D.C., U.S.

    On February 8, 1965, Armstrong and Elliot See were announced as the backup crew for Gemini 5, with Armstrong as commander, supporting the prime crew of Gordon Cooper and Pete Conrad.

  21. Internet

    Donald Davies became interested in data communications for computer networks

    1965United Kingdom

    Following discussions with J. C. R. Licklider in 1965, Donald Davies became interested in data communications for computer networks. Later that year, at the National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom), Davies designed and proposed a national data network based on packet switching. The following year, he described the use of an "Interface computer" to act as a router. The proposal was not taken up nationally but by 1967, a pilot experiment had demonstrated the feasibility of packet switched networks. He and his team were the first to use the term 'protocol' in a data-commutation context in 1967.

  22. Malcolm X

    2 days before assassination

    Friday Feb 19, 1965U.S.

    On February 19, 1965, Malcolm X told interviewer Gordon Parks that the Nation of Islam was actively trying to kill him.

  23. Malcolm X

    Death

    Sunday Feb 21, 196503:30:00 PMManhattan, New York, U.S.

    On February 21, 1965, he was preparing to address the OAAU in Manhattan's Audubon Ballroom when someone in the 400-person audience yelled, "Nigger! Get your hand outta my pocket!" As Malcolm X and his bodyguards tried to quell the disturbance, a man rushed forward and shot him once in the chest with a sawed-off shotgun and two other men charged the stage firing semi-automatic handguns. Malcolm X was pronounced dead at 3:30 pm, shortly after arriving at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. The autopsy identified 21 gunshot wounds to the chest, left shoulder, arms and legs, including ten buckshot wounds from the initial shotgun blast.

  24. Che Guevara

    Last public appearance

    Wednesday Feb 24, 1965Algiers, Algeria

    In Algiers, Algeria, on February 24, 1965, Guevara made what turned out to be his last public appearance on the international stage when he delivered a speech at an economic seminar on Afro-Asian solidarity.

  25. Slobodan Milošević

    Marriage

    Mar, 1965Serbia

    Milošević married his childhood friend, Mirjana Marković, with whom he had two children: Marko and Marija.

  26. Vietnam War

    Operation Rolling Thunder

    Tuesday Mar 2, 1965North Vietnam

    Operation Rolling Thunder and Operation Arc Light expanded aerial bombardment and ground support operations.

  27. Martin Luther King

    Selma voting rights movement

    Sunday Mar 7, 1965Selma, Alabama, U.S.

    Acting on James Bevel's call for a march from Selma to Montgomery, King, Bevel, and the SCLC, in partial collaboration with SNCC, attempted to organize the march to the state's capital. The first attempt to march on March 7, 1965, was aborted because of mob and police violence against the demonstrators. This day has become known as Bloody Sunday and was a major turning point in the effort to gain public support for the civil rights movement.

  28. John F. Kennedy

    Committed the first combat troops to Vietnam

    Monday Mar 8, 1965Vietnam

    On March 8, 1965, his successor, President Lyndon Johnson, committed the first combat troops to Vietnam and greatly escalated U.S. involvement, with forces reaching 184,000 that year and 536,000 in 1968.

  29. Vietnam War

    3,500 U.S. Marines were unilaterally dispatched

    Monday Mar 8, 1965South Vietnam

    On 8 March 1965, 3,500 U.S. Marines were unilaterally dispatched to South Vietnam.

  30. James Bond

    The Man with the Golden Gun was published

    Thursday Apr 1, 1965United Kingdom

    The Man with the Golden Gun is the twelfth novel (and thirteenth book) of Ian Fleming's James Bond series. It was first published by Jonathan Cape in the UK on 1 April 1965, eight months after the author's death.

  31. Brexit

    The Merger Treaty

    Thursday Apr 8, 1965Brussels, Belgium

    In 1967, these became known as the European Communities (EC). The Merger Treaty, also known as the Treaty of Brussels, was a European treaty that unified the executive institutions of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) and the Economic Community (EEC). The treaty was signed in Brussels on 8 April 1965 and came into force on 1 July 1967. It set out that the Commission of the EEC and the Council of the EEC should replace the Commission and Council of Euratom and the High Authority and Council of the ECSC. Although each Community remained legally independent, they shared common institutions (prior to this treaty, they already shared a Parliamentary Assembly and Court of Justice) and were together known as the European Communities. This treaty is regarded by some as the real beginning of the modern European Union.

  32. Che Guevara

    Cuban Expeditionaries

    Saturday Apr 24, 1965Congo

    Guevara, his second-in-command Víctor Dreke, and 12 other Cuban Expeditionaries arrived in Congo on April 24, 1965, and a contingent of approximately 100 Afro-Cubans joined them soon afterward.

  33. KFC

    First Overseas Branch

    May, 1965Preston, Lancashire, England, U.K.

    England had the first overseas branch of KFC which opened in Preston, Lancashire in May 1965, and was the first American fast-food restaurant chain in the country, pre-dating the arrival of McDonald's, Burger King and Pizza Hut by almost a decade.

  34. Muhammad Ali Clay

    Linston Rematch

    Tuesday May 25, 1965Lewiston, Maine, U.S.

    Ali then faced a rematch with Liston scheduled for May 1965 in Lewiston, Maine. and Ali Won the match in 2 minutes.

  35. Charles de Gaulle

    De Gaulle withdrew France's representatives from the EC

    Jun, 1965Luxembourg

    In June 1965, after France and the other five members could not agree, de Gaulle withdrew France's representatives from the EC.

  36. Library of Congress

    Congress passed an act allowing the Library of Congress to establish a trust fund board

    1965Washington D.C., U.S.

    In 1965, Congress passed an act allowing the Library of Congress to establish a trust fund board to accept donations and endowments, giving the library a role as a patron of the arts. The library received the donations and endowments of prominent individuals such as John D. Rockefeller, James B. Wilbur and Archer M. Huntington.

  37. Eiffel Tower

    Additional lift system was installed

    1965Paris, France

    A year later, an additional lift system was installed in the north pillar.

  38. Communist insurgency in Sarawak

    Goodsir Plan

    Wednesday Jun 30, 1965Sarawak, Malaysia

    On 30 June 1965, the Sarawak government's Operations Sub-Committee of the State Security Executive Council (Ops SSEC) implemented the Goodsir Plan. This plan involved the resettlement of 7,500 people in five "temporary settlements" along the Kuching-Serian road in Sarawak's First and Third Divisions. The Goodsir Plan was named after David Goodsir, the British acting commissioner of police in Sarawak.

  39. Stephen Hawking

    Marriage

    Wednesday Jul 14, 1965Cambridge, England

    When Hawking was a graduate student at Cambridge, his relationship with Jane Wilde, a friend of his sister whom he had met shortly before his late 1963 diagnosis with motor neurone disease, continued to develop. The couple became engaged in October 1964 – Hawking later said that the engagement gave him "something to live for" – and the two were married on 14 July 1965.

  40. Martin Bormann

    Excavations Failed To Locate The Bodies

    Tuesday Jul 20, 1965West Berlin, West Germany

    Excavations on 20-21 July 1965 at the site specified by Axmann and Krumnow failed to locate the bodies.

  41. Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Severe heart attack

    Aug, 1965U.S.

    A severe heart attack in August 1965 largely ended his participation in public affairs.

  42. The Beatles

    The Opening Concert of The third US tour

    Sunday Aug 15, 1965Shea Stadium, New York, U.S.

    The group's third US tour opened with a performance before a world-record crowd of 55,600 at New York's Shea Stadium on 15 August 1965 – "perhaps the most famous of all Beatles' concerts", in Lewisohn's description

  43. Coverture

    In France

    1965France

    In 1965, married French women obtained the right to work without their husband's consent.

  44. Neil Armstrong

    Announcing the Crew assignments for Gemini 8

    Monday Sep 20, 1965Washington D.C., U.S.

    The crew assignments for Gemini 8 were announced on September 20, 1965. Under the normal rotation system, the backup crew for one mission became the prime crew for the third mission after, but Slayton designated David Scott as the pilot of Gemini 8. Scott was the first member of the third group of astronauts, whose selection was announced on October 18, 1963, to receive a prime crew assignment.

  45. Ruhollah Khomeini

    To Iraq

    Oct, 1965Najaf, Iraq

    In October 1965, after less than a year, he was allowed to move to Najaf, Iraq, where he stayed until 1978 when he was expelled by then-Vice President Saddam Hussein.

  46. Raúl Castro

    Second Secretary of Communist Party of Cuba

    Sunday Oct 3, 1965Havana, Cuba

    He served as a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and Second Secretary of its Politburo from the Party's formation in October 1965.

  47. Frank Fritz

    Frank Fritz Birth

    Monday Oct 11, 1965USA

    Frank Fritz was born October 11, 1965

  48. Johan Cruyff

    Started to make an impression

    Sunday Oct 24, 1965Netherlands

    Cruyff really started to make an impression in the 1965–66 season and established himself as a regular first team player after scoring two goals against DWS in the Olympic stadium on 24 October 1965 in a 2–0 victory.

  49. The Beatles

    Receive Their (MBE) Medals

    Tuesday Oct 26, 1965Buckingham Palace, London, England

    The Beatles went to Buckingham Palace to receive their (MBE) medals from the Queen on October 26, 1965, after Queen Elizabeth II appointed all four Beatles Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) after Prime Minister Harold Wilson nominated them for the award.

  50. Communist insurgency in Sarawak

    North Kalimantan People's Army was formed

    Tuesday Oct 26, 1965West Kalimantan, Indonesia

    The North Kalimantan People's Army was formed by Bong Kee Chok near Melawi River in West Kalimantan with the assistance of the PKI on 26 October 1965.

  51. Che Guevara

    Guevara left Congo

    Saturday Nov 20, 1965Congo

    Later that year, on November 20, 1965, suffering from dysentery and acute asthma, and disheartened after seven months of defeats, Guevara left Congo with the six Cuban survivors of his 12-man column.

  52. Ted Bundy

    Bundy attended the University of Puget Sound (UPS)

    1965Tacoma, Washington, U.S.

    After graduating from high school in 1965, Bundy attended the University of Puget Sound (UPS) for one year before transferring to the University of Washington (UW) to study Chinese.

  53. Atomic Bomb

    1965 Philippine Sea A-4 crash

    Sunday Dec 5, 1965Philippine Sea

    1965 Philippine Sea A-4 crash, where a Skyhawk attack aircraft with a nuclear weapon fell into the sea.The pilot, the aircraft, and the B43 nuclear bomb were never recovered. It was not until 1989 that the Pentagon revealed the loss of the one-megaton bomb.

  54. James Bond

    Thunderball premiere

    Thursday Dec 9, 1965Tokyo, Japan

    Thunderball is a 1965 spy film and the fourth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, starring Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It is an adaptation of the 1961 novel of the same name by Ian Fleming, which in turn was based on an original story by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham, and Fleming.

  55. Charles de Gaulle

    De Gaulle returned as president for a second seven-year term

    Dec, 1965Paris, France

    In December 1965, de Gaulle returned as president for a second seven-year term.

  56. Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon

    President of Girlguiding UK

    1965England, United Kingdom

    Margret served as President of Girlguiding UK from 1965 until her death in 2002.

  57. Vietnam War

    Military Deaths In 1965

    1965Vietnam

    In 1965, 1928 Americans and 11242 Vietnamese were killed.

  58. Nintendo

    Nintendo Games

    1965Kyoto, Japan

    In 1966, Nintendo moved into the Japanese toy industry with the Ultra Hand, an extendable arm developed by its maintenance engineer Gunpei Yokoi in his free time. Yokoi was moved from maintenance to the new "Nintendo Games" department as a product developer. Nintendo continued to produce popular toys, including the Ultra Machine, Love Tester and the Kousenjuu series of light gun games. Despite some successful products, Nintendo struggled to meet the fast development and manufacturing turnaround required in the toy market and fell behind the well-established companies such as Bandai and Tomy.

  59. Xanana Gusmão

    1st Marriage

    1965Timor-Leste

    During this time, he married Emilia Batista, with whom he had a son Eugenio, and a daughter Zenilda.

  60. Ayman al-Zawahiri

    Joining the Muslim Brotherhood

    1965Cairo, Egypt

    By the age of 14, al-Zawahiri had joined the Muslim Brotherhood. al-Zawahiri, along with four other secondary school students, helped form an "underground cell devoted to overthrowing the government and establishing an Islamist state." It was at this early age that al-Zawahiri developed a mission in life, "to put Qutb's vision into action."His cell eventually merged with others to form al-Jihad or Egyptian Islamic Jihad.

  61. Che Guevara

    To Congo

    1965Congo

    Guevara traveled to Congo using the alias Ramón Benítez.

  62. Communist insurgency in Sarawak

    Federal Government had built three permanent settlements

    1965Sarawak, Malaysia

    By the end of 1965, the Federal Government had built three permanent settlements at Siburan, Beratok, and Tapah to replace the five temporary settlements, which covered 600 acres and were designed to accommodate 8,000 inhabitants.

  63. Mobile Phones

    IMTS

    1965New York, U.S.

    AT&T introduced the first major improvement to mobile telephony in 1965, giving the improved service the obvious name of Improved Mobile Telephone Service. IMTS used additional radio channels, allowing more simultaneous calls in a given geographic area, introduced customer dialing, eliminating manual call setup by an operator, and reduced the size and weight of the subscriber equipment. Despite the capacity improvement offered by IMTS, demand outstripped capacity. In agreement with state regulatory agencies, AT&T limited the service to just 40,000 customers system wide. In New York City, for example, 2,000 customers shared just 12 radio channels and typically had to wait 30 minutes to place a call.

  64. Carlos Slim

    Inversora Bursátil

    1965Mexico City, Mexico

    In 1965, profits from Slim's private investments reached US$400,000, allowing him to start the stock brokerage Inversora Bursátil.

  65. Carlos Slim

    Jarritos Del Sur

    1965Mexico

    In 1965, Slim bought Jarritos del Sur.

  66. Juan Trippe

    The Tony Jannus Award

    1965Tampa, Florida, U.S.

    In 1965, Trippe received the Tony Jannus Award for his distinguished contributions to commercial aviation.

  67. Statue of Liberty

    Ellis Island

    1965New York, U.S.

    Ellis Island was made part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument by proclamation of President Lyndon Johnson in 1965.

  68. Joe Biden

    Double Major Bachelor

    1965Delaware, U.S.

    He earned his bachelor's in 1965 from the University of Delaware, with a double major in history and political science, graduating with a class rank of 506 out of 688. His classmates were impressed by his cramming abilities, and he played halfback with the Blue Hens freshman football team. In 1964, while on spring break in the Bahamas, he met and began dating Neilia Hunter, who was from an affluent background in Skaneateles, New York, and attended Syracuse University. He told her that he aimed to become a senator by the age of 30 and then president. He dropped a junior year plan to play for the varsity football team as a defensive back, enabling him to spend more time visiting out of state with her.

  69. Nike, Inc.

    Acquiring a Full-Time Employee

    1965Oregon, U.S.

    By 1965 the fledgling company had acquired a full-time employee, and sales had reached $20,000.

  70. Muhammad Yunus

    Receiving a Fulbright Scholarship

    1965Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.

    In 1965, he received a Fulbright scholarship to study in the United States.

  71. Computer animation

    Michael Noll

    1965Murray Hill, New Jersey, United States

    In 1965, Michael Noll created computer-generated stereographic 3D movies, including a ballet of stick figures moving on a stage. Some movies also showed four-dimensional hyper-objects projected to three dimensions.

  72. Computer animation

    The University of Utah

    1965Utah, U.S.

    Utah was a major center for computer animation in this period. The computer science faculty was founded by David Evans in 1965, and many of the basic techniques of 3D computer graphics were developed here in the early 1970s with ARPA funding (Advanced Research Projects Agency). Research results included Gouraud, Phong, and Blinn shading, texture mapping, hidden surface algorithms, curved surface subdivision, real-time line-drawing, and raster image display hardware, and early virtual reality work.

  73. Charles de Gaulle

    De Gaulle refused to participate in any future NATO maneuvers

    1965France

    In 1965, de Gaulle pulled France out of SEATO, the southeast Asian equivalent of NATO, and refused to participate in any future NATO maneuvers.

  74. Edward VIII

    Edward returned to London

    1965London, England, United Kingdom

    In 1965 the Duke and Duchess returned to London. They were visited by Elizabeth II, his sister-in-law Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, and his sister Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood. A week later, the Princess Royal died, and they attended her memorial service.

  75. Winston Churchill

    Death

    Sunday Jan 24, 1965London, England, United Kingdom

    Churchill suffered his final stroke on 12 January 1965. He died nearly two weeks later on the 24th, which was the seventieth anniversary of his father's death.

  76. Winston Churchill

    Funeral

    Saturday Jan 30, 1965England, United Kingdom

    Churchill was given a state funeral six days later on 30 January, the first for a non-royal person since W. E. Gladstone in 1898. Planning for Churchill's funeral had begun in 1953 under the code-name of "Operation Hope Not" and a detailed plan had been produced by 1958. His coffin lay in state at Westminster Hall for three days and the funeral ceremony was at St Paul's Cathedral. Afterwards, the coffin was taken by boat along the River Thames to Waterloo Station and from there by a special train to the family plot at St Martin's Church, Bladon, near his birthplace at Blenheim Palace.

  77. Vietnam War

    Attack on a U.S. Army base

    Sunday Feb 7, 1965Pleiku, South Vietnam

    The National Security Council recommended a three-stage escalation of the bombing of North Vietnam. Following an attack on a U.S. Army base in Pleiku on 7 February 1965, a series of air strikes was initiated.

  78. Neil Armstrong

    The backup Crew for Gemini 5

    Monday Feb 8, 1965Washington D.C., U.S.

    On February 8, 1965, Armstrong and Elliot See were announced as the backup crew for Gemini 5, with Armstrong as commander, supporting the prime crew of Gordon Cooper and Pete Conrad.

  79. Internet

    Donald Davies became interested in data communications for computer networks

    1965United Kingdom

    Following discussions with J. C. R. Licklider in 1965, Donald Davies became interested in data communications for computer networks. Later that year, at the National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom), Davies designed and proposed a national data network based on packet switching. The following year, he described the use of an "Interface computer" to act as a router. The proposal was not taken up nationally but by 1967, a pilot experiment had demonstrated the feasibility of packet switched networks. He and his team were the first to use the term 'protocol' in a data-commutation context in 1967.

  80. Malcolm X

    2 days before assassination

    Friday Feb 19, 1965U.S.

    On February 19, 1965, Malcolm X told interviewer Gordon Parks that the Nation of Islam was actively trying to kill him.

  81. Malcolm X

    Death

    Sunday Feb 21, 196503:30:00 PMManhattan, New York, U.S.

    On February 21, 1965, he was preparing to address the OAAU in Manhattan's Audubon Ballroom when someone in the 400-person audience yelled, "Nigger! Get your hand outta my pocket!" As Malcolm X and his bodyguards tried to quell the disturbance, a man rushed forward and shot him once in the chest with a sawed-off shotgun and two other men charged the stage firing semi-automatic handguns. Malcolm X was pronounced dead at 3:30 pm, shortly after arriving at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. The autopsy identified 21 gunshot wounds to the chest, left shoulder, arms and legs, including ten buckshot wounds from the initial shotgun blast.

  82. Che Guevara

    Last public appearance

    Wednesday Feb 24, 1965Algiers, Algeria

    In Algiers, Algeria, on February 24, 1965, Guevara made what turned out to be his last public appearance on the international stage when he delivered a speech at an economic seminar on Afro-Asian solidarity.

  83. Slobodan Milošević

    Marriage

    Mar, 1965Serbia

    Milošević married his childhood friend, Mirjana Marković, with whom he had two children: Marko and Marija.

  84. Vietnam War

    Operation Rolling Thunder

    Tuesday Mar 2, 1965North Vietnam

    Operation Rolling Thunder and Operation Arc Light expanded aerial bombardment and ground support operations.

  85. Martin Luther King

    Selma voting rights movement

    Sunday Mar 7, 1965Selma, Alabama, U.S.

    Acting on James Bevel's call for a march from Selma to Montgomery, King, Bevel, and the SCLC, in partial collaboration with SNCC, attempted to organize the march to the state's capital. The first attempt to march on March 7, 1965, was aborted because of mob and police violence against the demonstrators. This day has become known as Bloody Sunday and was a major turning point in the effort to gain public support for the civil rights movement.

  86. John F. Kennedy

    Committed the first combat troops to Vietnam

    Monday Mar 8, 1965Vietnam

    On March 8, 1965, his successor, President Lyndon Johnson, committed the first combat troops to Vietnam and greatly escalated U.S. involvement, with forces reaching 184,000 that year and 536,000 in 1968.

  87. Vietnam War

    3,500 U.S. Marines were unilaterally dispatched

    Monday Mar 8, 1965South Vietnam

    On 8 March 1965, 3,500 U.S. Marines were unilaterally dispatched to South Vietnam.

  88. James Bond

    The Man with the Golden Gun was published

    Thursday Apr 1, 1965United Kingdom

    The Man with the Golden Gun is the twelfth novel (and thirteenth book) of Ian Fleming's James Bond series. It was first published by Jonathan Cape in the UK on 1 April 1965, eight months after the author's death.

  89. Brexit

    The Merger Treaty

    Thursday Apr 8, 1965Brussels, Belgium

    In 1967, these became known as the European Communities (EC). The Merger Treaty, also known as the Treaty of Brussels, was a European treaty that unified the executive institutions of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) and the Economic Community (EEC). The treaty was signed in Brussels on 8 April 1965 and came into force on 1 July 1967. It set out that the Commission of the EEC and the Council of the EEC should replace the Commission and Council of Euratom and the High Authority and Council of the ECSC. Although each Community remained legally independent, they shared common institutions (prior to this treaty, they already shared a Parliamentary Assembly and Court of Justice) and were together known as the European Communities. This treaty is regarded by some as the real beginning of the modern European Union.

  90. Che Guevara

    Cuban Expeditionaries

    Saturday Apr 24, 1965Congo

    Guevara, his second-in-command Víctor Dreke, and 12 other Cuban Expeditionaries arrived in Congo on April 24, 1965, and a contingent of approximately 100 Afro-Cubans joined them soon afterward.

  91. KFC

    First Overseas Branch

    May, 1965Preston, Lancashire, England, U.K.

    England had the first overseas branch of KFC which opened in Preston, Lancashire in May 1965, and was the first American fast-food restaurant chain in the country, pre-dating the arrival of McDonald's, Burger King and Pizza Hut by almost a decade.

  92. Muhammad Ali Clay

    Linston Rematch

    Tuesday May 25, 1965Lewiston, Maine, U.S.

    Ali then faced a rematch with Liston scheduled for May 1965 in Lewiston, Maine. and Ali Won the match in 2 minutes.

  93. Charles de Gaulle

    De Gaulle withdrew France's representatives from the EC

    Jun, 1965Luxembourg

    In June 1965, after France and the other five members could not agree, de Gaulle withdrew France's representatives from the EC.

  94. Library of Congress

    Congress passed an act allowing the Library of Congress to establish a trust fund board

    1965Washington D.C., U.S.

    In 1965, Congress passed an act allowing the Library of Congress to establish a trust fund board to accept donations and endowments, giving the library a role as a patron of the arts. The library received the donations and endowments of prominent individuals such as John D. Rockefeller, James B. Wilbur and Archer M. Huntington.

  95. Eiffel Tower

    Additional lift system was installed

    1965Paris, France

    A year later, an additional lift system was installed in the north pillar.

  96. Communist insurgency in Sarawak

    Goodsir Plan

    Wednesday Jun 30, 1965Sarawak, Malaysia

    On 30 June 1965, the Sarawak government's Operations Sub-Committee of the State Security Executive Council (Ops SSEC) implemented the Goodsir Plan. This plan involved the resettlement of 7,500 people in five "temporary settlements" along the Kuching-Serian road in Sarawak's First and Third Divisions. The Goodsir Plan was named after David Goodsir, the British acting commissioner of police in Sarawak.

  97. Stephen Hawking

    Marriage

    Wednesday Jul 14, 1965Cambridge, England

    When Hawking was a graduate student at Cambridge, his relationship with Jane Wilde, a friend of his sister whom he had met shortly before his late 1963 diagnosis with motor neurone disease, continued to develop. The couple became engaged in October 1964 – Hawking later said that the engagement gave him "something to live for" – and the two were married on 14 July 1965.

  98. Martin Bormann

    Excavations Failed To Locate The Bodies

    Tuesday Jul 20, 1965West Berlin, West Germany

    Excavations on 20-21 July 1965 at the site specified by Axmann and Krumnow failed to locate the bodies.

  99. Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Severe heart attack

    Aug, 1965U.S.

    A severe heart attack in August 1965 largely ended his participation in public affairs.

  100. The Beatles

    The Opening Concert of The third US tour

    Sunday Aug 15, 1965Shea Stadium, New York, U.S.

    The group's third US tour opened with a performance before a world-record crowd of 55,600 at New York's Shea Stadium on 15 August 1965 – "perhaps the most famous of all Beatles' concerts", in Lewisohn's description

  101. Coverture

    In France

    1965France

    In 1965, married French women obtained the right to work without their husband's consent.

  102. Neil Armstrong

    Announcing the Crew assignments for Gemini 8

    Monday Sep 20, 1965Washington D.C., U.S.

    The crew assignments for Gemini 8 were announced on September 20, 1965. Under the normal rotation system, the backup crew for one mission became the prime crew for the third mission after, but Slayton designated David Scott as the pilot of Gemini 8. Scott was the first member of the third group of astronauts, whose selection was announced on October 18, 1963, to receive a prime crew assignment.

  103. Ruhollah Khomeini

    To Iraq

    Oct, 1965Najaf, Iraq

    In October 1965, after less than a year, he was allowed to move to Najaf, Iraq, where he stayed until 1978 when he was expelled by then-Vice President Saddam Hussein.

  104. Raúl Castro

    Second Secretary of Communist Party of Cuba

    Sunday Oct 3, 1965Havana, Cuba

    He served as a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and Second Secretary of its Politburo from the Party's formation in October 1965.

  105. Frank Fritz

    Frank Fritz Birth

    Monday Oct 11, 1965USA

    Frank Fritz was born October 11, 1965

  106. Johan Cruyff

    Started to make an impression

    Sunday Oct 24, 1965Netherlands

    Cruyff really started to make an impression in the 1965–66 season and established himself as a regular first team player after scoring two goals against DWS in the Olympic stadium on 24 October 1965 in a 2–0 victory.

  107. The Beatles

    Receive Their (MBE) Medals

    Tuesday Oct 26, 1965Buckingham Palace, London, England

    The Beatles went to Buckingham Palace to receive their (MBE) medals from the Queen on October 26, 1965, after Queen Elizabeth II appointed all four Beatles Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) after Prime Minister Harold Wilson nominated them for the award.

  108. Communist insurgency in Sarawak

    North Kalimantan People's Army was formed

    Tuesday Oct 26, 1965West Kalimantan, Indonesia

    The North Kalimantan People's Army was formed by Bong Kee Chok near Melawi River in West Kalimantan with the assistance of the PKI on 26 October 1965.

  109. Che Guevara

    Guevara left Congo

    Saturday Nov 20, 1965Congo

    Later that year, on November 20, 1965, suffering from dysentery and acute asthma, and disheartened after seven months of defeats, Guevara left Congo with the six Cuban survivors of his 12-man column.

  110. Ted Bundy

    Bundy attended the University of Puget Sound (UPS)

    1965Tacoma, Washington, U.S.

    After graduating from high school in 1965, Bundy attended the University of Puget Sound (UPS) for one year before transferring to the University of Washington (UW) to study Chinese.

  111. Atomic Bomb

    1965 Philippine Sea A-4 crash

    Sunday Dec 5, 1965Philippine Sea

    1965 Philippine Sea A-4 crash, where a Skyhawk attack aircraft with a nuclear weapon fell into the sea.The pilot, the aircraft, and the B43 nuclear bomb were never recovered. It was not until 1989 that the Pentagon revealed the loss of the one-megaton bomb.

  112. James Bond

    Thunderball premiere

    Thursday Dec 9, 1965Tokyo, Japan

    Thunderball is a 1965 spy film and the fourth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, starring Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It is an adaptation of the 1961 novel of the same name by Ian Fleming, which in turn was based on an original story by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham, and Fleming.

  113. Charles de Gaulle

    De Gaulle returned as president for a second seven-year term

    Dec, 1965Paris, France

    In December 1965, de Gaulle returned as president for a second seven-year term.

  114. Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon

    President of Girlguiding UK

    1965England, United Kingdom

    Margret served as President of Girlguiding UK from 1965 until her death in 2002.

  115. Vietnam War

    Military Deaths In 1965

    1965Vietnam

    In 1965, 1928 Americans and 11242 Vietnamese were killed.

  116. Nintendo

    Nintendo Games

    1965Kyoto, Japan

    In 1966, Nintendo moved into the Japanese toy industry with the Ultra Hand, an extendable arm developed by its maintenance engineer Gunpei Yokoi in his free time. Yokoi was moved from maintenance to the new "Nintendo Games" department as a product developer. Nintendo continued to produce popular toys, including the Ultra Machine, Love Tester and the Kousenjuu series of light gun games. Despite some successful products, Nintendo struggled to meet the fast development and manufacturing turnaround required in the toy market and fell behind the well-established companies such as Bandai and Tomy.