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  • Timor-Leste
    1965
    Xanana Gusmão

    1st Marriage

    Timor-Leste
    1965

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




  • Cairo, Egypt
    1965
    Ayman al-Zawahiri

    Joining the Muslim Brotherhood

    Cairo, Egypt
    1965

    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.




  • Congo
    1965
    Che Guevara

    To Congo

    Congo
    1965

    Guevara traveled to Congo using the alias Ramón Benítez.




  • New York, U.S.
    1965
    Mobile Phones

    IMTS

    New York, U.S.
    1965

    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.




  • Sarawak, Malaysia
    1965
    Communist insurgency in Sarawak

    Federal Government had built three permanent settlements

    Sarawak, Malaysia
    1965

    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.




  • Mexico City, Mexico
    1965
    Carlos Slim

    Inversora Bursátil

    Mexico City, Mexico
    1965

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




  • Mexico
    1965
    Carlos Slim

    Jarritos Del Sur

    Mexico
    1965

    In 1965, Slim bought Jarritos del Sur.


  • Tampa, Florida, U.S.
    1965
    Juan Trippe

    The Tony Jannus Award

    Tampa, Florida, U.S.
    1965

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


  • Delaware, U.S.
    1965
    Joe Biden

    Double Major Bachelor

    Delaware, U.S.
    1965

    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.


  • New York, U.S.
    1965
    Statue of Liberty

    Ellis Island

    New York, U.S.
    1965

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


  • Oregon, U.S.
    1965
    Nike, Inc.

    Acquiring a Full-Time Employee

    Oregon, U.S.
    1965

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


  • Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
    1965
    Muhammad Yunus

    Receiving a Fulbright Scholarship

    Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
    1965

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


  • Murray Hill, New Jersey, United States
    1965
    Computer animation

    Michael Noll

    Murray Hill, New Jersey, United States
    1965

    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.


  • Utah, U.S.
    1965
    Computer animation

    The University of Utah

    Utah, U.S.
    1965

    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.


  • France
    1965
    Charles de Gaulle

    De Gaulle refused to participate in any future NATO maneuvers

    France
    1965

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


  • London, England, United Kingdom
    1965
    Edward VIII

    Edward returned to London

    London, England, United Kingdom
    1965

    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.


  • London, England, United Kingdom
    Sunday Jan 24, 1965
    Winston Churchill

    Death

    London, England, United Kingdom
    Sunday Jan 24, 1965

    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.


  • England, United Kingdom
    Saturday Jan 30, 1965
    Winston Churchill

    Funeral

    England, United Kingdom
    Saturday Jan 30, 1965

    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.


  • Pleiku, South Vietnam
    Sunday Feb 7, 1965
    Vietnam War

    Attack on a U.S. Army base

    Pleiku, South Vietnam
    Sunday Feb 7, 1965

    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.


  • Washington D.C., U.S.
    Monday Feb 8, 1965
    Neil Armstrong

    The backup Crew for Gemini 5

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

    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.


  • United Kingdom
    1965
    Internet

    Donald Davies became interested in data communications for computer networks

    United Kingdom
    1965

    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.


  • U.S.
    Friday Feb 19, 1965
    Malcolm X

    2 days before assassination

    U.S.
    Friday Feb 19, 1965

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


  • Manhattan, New York, U.S.
    Sunday Feb 21, 1965
    03:30:00 PM
    Malcolm X

    Death

    Manhattan, New York, U.S.
    Sunday Feb 21, 1965
    03:30:00 PM

    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.


  • Algiers, Algeria
    Wednesday Feb 24, 1965
    Che Guevara

    Last public appearance

    Algiers, Algeria
    Wednesday Feb 24, 1965

    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.


  • Serbia
    Mar, 1965
    Slobodan Milošević

    Marriage

    Serbia
    Mar, 1965

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


  • North Vietnam
    Tuesday Mar 2, 1965
    Vietnam War

    Operation Rolling Thunder

    North Vietnam
    Tuesday Mar 2, 1965

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


  • Selma, Alabama, U.S.
    Sunday Mar 7, 1965
    Martin Luther King

    Selma voting rights movement

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

    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.


  • South Vietnam
    Monday Mar 8, 1965
    Vietnam War

    3,500 U.S. Marines were unilaterally dispatched

    South Vietnam
    Monday Mar 8, 1965

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


  • Vietnam
    Monday Mar 8, 1965
    John F. Kennedy

    Committed the first combat troops to Vietnam

    Vietnam
    Monday Mar 8, 1965

    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.


  • United Kingdom
    Thursday Apr 1, 1965
    James Bond

    The Man with the Golden Gun was published

    United Kingdom
    Thursday Apr 1, 1965

    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.


  • Brussels, Belgium
    Thursday Apr 8, 1965
    Brexit

    The Merger Treaty

    Brussels, Belgium
    Thursday Apr 8, 1965

    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.


  • Congo
    Saturday Apr 24, 1965
    Che Guevara

    Cuban Expeditionaries

    Congo
    Saturday Apr 24, 1965

    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.


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

    First Overseas Branch

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

    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.


  • Lewiston, Maine, U.S.
    Tuesday May 25, 1965
    Muhammad Ali Clay

    Linston Rematch

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

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


  • Luxembourg
    Jun, 1965
    Charles de Gaulle

    De Gaulle withdrew France's representatives from the EC

    Luxembourg
    Jun, 1965

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


  • Washington D.C., U.S.
    1965
    Library of Congress

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

    Washington D.C., U.S.
    1965

    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.


  • Paris, France
    1965
    Eiffel Tower

    Additional lift system was installed

    Paris, France
    1965

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


  • Sarawak, Malaysia
    Wednesday Jun 30, 1965
    Communist insurgency in Sarawak

    Goodsir Plan

    Sarawak, Malaysia
    Wednesday Jun 30, 1965

    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.


  • Cambridge, England
    Wednesday Jul 14, 1965
    Stephen Hawking

    Marriage

    Cambridge, England
    Wednesday Jul 14, 1965

    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.


  • West Berlin, West Germany
    Tuesday Jul 20, 1965
    Martin Bormann

    Excavations Failed To Locate The Bodies

    West Berlin, West Germany
    Tuesday Jul 20, 1965

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


  • U.S.
    Aug, 1965
    Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Severe heart attack

    U.S.
    Aug, 1965

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


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

    The Opening Concert of The third US tour

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

    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


  • France
    1965
    Coverture

    In France

    France
    1965

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


  • Washington D.C., U.S.
    Monday Sep 20, 1965
    Neil Armstrong

    Announcing the Crew assignments for Gemini 8

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

    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.


  • Najaf, Iraq
    Oct, 1965
    Ruhollah Khomeini

    To Iraq

    Najaf, Iraq
    Oct, 1965

    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.


  • Havana, Cuba
    Sunday Oct 3, 1965
    Raúl Castro

    Second Secretary of Communist Party of Cuba

    Havana, Cuba
    Sunday Oct 3, 1965

    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.


  • USA
    Monday Oct 11, 1965
    Frank Fritz

    Frank Fritz Birth

    USA
    Monday Oct 11, 1965

    Frank Fritz was born October 11, 1965


  • Netherlands
    Sunday Oct 24, 1965
    Johan Cruyff

    Started to make an impression

    Netherlands
    Sunday Oct 24, 1965

    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.


  • Buckingham Palace, London, England
    Tuesday Oct 26, 1965
    The Beatles

    Receive Their (MBE) Medals

    Buckingham Palace, London, England
    Tuesday Oct 26, 1965

    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.


  • West Kalimantan, Indonesia
    Tuesday Oct 26, 1965
    Communist insurgency in Sarawak

    North Kalimantan People's Army was formed

    West Kalimantan, Indonesia
    Tuesday Oct 26, 1965

    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.


  • Congo
    Saturday Nov 20, 1965
    Che Guevara

    Guevara left Congo

    Congo
    Saturday Nov 20, 1965

    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.


  • Tacoma, Washington, U.S.
    1965
    Ted Bundy

    Bundy attended the University of Puget Sound (UPS)

    Tacoma, Washington, U.S.
    1965

    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.


  • Philippine Sea
    Sunday Dec 5, 1965
    Atomic Bomb

    1965 Philippine Sea A-4 crash

    Philippine Sea
    Sunday Dec 5, 1965

    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.


  • Tokyo, Japan
    Thursday Dec 9, 1965
    James Bond

    Thunderball premiere

    Tokyo, Japan
    Thursday Dec 9, 1965

    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.


  • Paris, France
    Dec, 1965
    Charles de Gaulle

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

    Paris, France
    Dec, 1965

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


  • England, United Kingdom
    1965
    Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon

    President of Girlguiding UK

    England, United Kingdom
    1965

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


  • Vietnam
    1965
    Vietnam War

    Military Deaths In 1965

    Vietnam
    1965

    In 1965, 1928 Americans and 11242 Vietnamese were killed.


  • Kyoto, Japan
    1965
    Nintendo

    Nintendo Games

    Kyoto, Japan
    1965

    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.


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