1965 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1965?
- January 28, 1965 – The current design of the Flag of Canada is chosen by an act of Parliament.
- February 2, 1965 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Snake in Chinese astrology.
- February 9, 1965 – Vietnam War: The first United States combat troops are sent to South Vietnam.
- February 15, 1965 – A new red-and-white maple leaf design is adopted as the flag of Canada, replacing the old Canadian Red Ensign banner.
- February 17, 1965 – Project Ranger: The Ranger 8 probe launches on its mission to photograph the Mare Tranquillitatis region of the Moon in preparation for the manned Apollo missions. Mare Tranquillitatis or the “Sea of Tranquility” would become the site chosen for the Apollo 11 lunar landing.
- March 6, 1965 – Premier Tom Playford of South Australia loses power after 27 years in office.
- March 23, 1965 – NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States’ first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young).
- March 24, 1965 – NASA spacecraft Ranger 9, equipped to convert its signals into a form suitable for showing on domestic television, brings images of the Moon into ordinary homes before crash landing.
- March 30, 1965 – Vietnam War: A car bomb explodes in front of the US Embassy, Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others.
- April 4, 1965 – The first model of the new Saab Viggen fighter aircraft plane is unveiled.
- April 25, 1965 – Teenage sniper Michael Andrew Clark kills three and wounds six others shooting from a hilltop along Highway 101 just south of Santa Maria, California.
- May 18, 1965 – Israeli spy Eli Cohen was hanged in Damascus, Syria.
- June 10, 1965 – Vietnam War: The Battle of Dong Xoai begins.
- July 14, 1965 – The Mariner 4 flyby of Mars takes the first close-up photos of another planet.
- August 6, 1965 – The largest swimming pool in Europe was opened in Fürstenfeld, Austria.
- October 21, 1965 – Comet Ikeya-Seki approaches perihelion, passing 450,000 kilometers from the sun.
- October 28, 1965 – Construction on the St. Louis Arch is completed.
- November 13, 1965 – The SS Yarmouth Castle burns and sinks 60 miles off Nassau with the loss of 90 lives.
- November 16, 1965 – Venera program: the Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe toward Venus, that will be the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet.
- November 28, 1965 – Vietnam War: In response to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson’s call for “more flags” in Vietnam, Philippines President Elect Ferdinand Marcos announces he will send troops to help fight in South Vietnam.
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