1965

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1930s  1940s  1950s  – 1960s –  1970s  1980s  1990s
Years:	1962 1963 1964 – 1965 – 1966 1967 1968

1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar.

Events

Funeral train for Sir Winston Churchill

• January 30 – state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill in London
• February 18 – The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom
• March 7 – Bloody Sunday: Alabama State Troopers attack civil rights demonstrators as they attempt to march to the state capitol of Montgomery
• April 9 – Charlie Brown and the Peanuts Gang appear on the cover of Time
• May 25 – Muhammad Ali knocks out Sonny Liston in the first round of their championship boxing rematch
• June 15 - Victoria, Australia, coldest day on record -11.7°C at Omeo
• July 16 – The Mont Blanc tunnel opens
• August 9 – Singapore proclaims its independence from the Malaysian Federation.
• September 9 – Hurricane Betsy is in Louisiana
• October 3 – Fidel Castro announces that Che Guevara resigned and left Cuba
• November 5 – Martial law is announced in Rhodesia
• December 20 – World Food Programme is made a permanent agency of the United Nations
• The Left Banke forms
• Pete Best attempts suicide

Births

Bruce Lee with son Brandon Lee in 1966

• January 8 – John Catliff, Canadian footballer
• February 1 – Brandon Lee, Chinese-American actor (d. 1993)
• March 1 – Booker Huffman, American professional wrestler
• April 16 – Jon Cryer, American actor
• May 7 – Owen Hart, Canadian professional wrestler (died 1999)
• June 1 – Nigel Short, English chess player
• July 31 – J. K. Rowling, writer
• August 25 – Mia Zapata, singer
• August 28 – Shania Twain, singer
• September 2 – Lennox Lewis, British boxer
• October 5 – Patrick Roy, Canadian retired ice hockey player
• November 20 – Ben Stiller, actor
• December 31 – Nicholas Sparks, American author

Deaths

Spike Jones, Marilyn Monroe and Ken Murray in 1952

• January 4 – T. S. Eliot, poet
• January 24 – Winston Churchill, British politician
• February 2 – Nat Cole, jazz singer
• February 21 – Malcolm X, leader of the Black Muslim Movement
• February 23 – Stan Laurel, British comedian
• March 18 – King Farouk I of Egypt
• April 18 – Guillermo González Camarena, Mexican inventor (b. 1917)
• May 1 – Spike Jones, American musician and bandleader (b. 1911)
• June 5 – Eleanor Farjeon, English author of children's literature (b. 1881)
• July 1 – Wally Hammond, English cricketer (b. 1903)
• July 7 – Moshe Sharett, 2nd Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1894)
• August 13 – Hayato Ikeda, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1899)
• August 27 – Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (b. 1887)
• September 16 – Fred Quimby, American animated film producer (b. 1886)
• October 1 – Gareth Hughes, Welsh actor (b. 1894)
• November 24 – Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1895)
• November 25 – Dame Myra Hess, English pianist (b. 1890)
• December 5 – Joseph Erlanger, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)

Nobel Prizes

• Nobel Prize in Physics shared by Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Julian Schwinger, and Richard P. Feynman for work in the development of quantum electrodynamics
• Nobel Prize in Chemistry won by Robert B. Woodward, American chemist (for his synthetic work with natural products)
• Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine shared by François Jacob, André Lwoff, and Jacques Monod
• Nobel Prize in Literature won by Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, Russian novelist
• Nobel Peace Prize won by UNICEF

Movies released

Natalie Wood in The Great Race

• The Agony and the Ectasy
• Alphaville, Golden Bear winner
• Cat Ballou
• Darling
• Doctor Zhivago, starring Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, and Alec Guinness
• For a Few Dollars More
• Girl Happy
• The Great Race
• The Greatest Story Ever Told
• Help!, starring The Beatles
• The Ipcress File
• Juliet of the Spirits
• The Knack...And How to Get It, Cannes Grand Prize
• The Legend of Blood Mountain
• Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie
• Report
• Ship of Fools
• The Shop on Main Street
• The Sons of Katie Elder
• The Sound of Music
• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
• Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
• A Thousand Clowns
• Thunderball
• Zorba the Greek

New books

Malcolm X in 1964

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X – Alex Haley & Malcolm X
• The British Museum Is Falling Down – David Lodge
• Dune – Frank Herbert
• Georgy Girl – Margaret Forster
• The Green Berets – Robin Moore
• Hotel – Arthur Hailey
• The Looking-Glass War – John le Carré
• The Magus – John Fowles
• The Man with the Golden Gun – Ian Fleming
• Markings – Dag Hammarskjöld
• Morning's at Seven – Eric Malpass
• The Painted Bird – Jerzy Kosinski
• The Source – James A. Michener
• Those Who Love – Irving Stone
• The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch – Philip K. Dick
• Up the Down Staircase – Bel Kaufman

Hit songs

• "Nowhere to Run" – Martha Reeve and the Vandellas