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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 7 February 2025. 1965 January February March April May June July August September October November December This article is about the year 1965. For other uses, see 1965 (disambiguation). Calendar year Millennium: 2nd millennium Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1940s 1950s 1960s ...
April 11 – The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: An estimated 51 tornadoes (47 confirmed) hit in 6 Midwestern states, killing between 256 and 271 people and injuring some 1,500 more. April 14 – In Cold Blood killers Richard Hickock and Perry Smith , convicted of murdering 4 members of the Herbert Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas , are ...
The official death toll was 120 people; more than 1,500 would die in a second earthquake on October 10, 1986, and "a significant number of the victims" would be "killed by the collapse of engineered structures that had been weakened in the 1965 event", most notably the 300 people dying in a five-story building that had been condemned after the ...
In addition, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 had an immediate impact on federal, state and local elections. Within months of its passage on August 6, 1965, one quarter of a million new black voters had been registered, one third by federal examiners. Within four years, voter registration in the South had more than doubled. In 1965, Mississippi ...
February 26, 1965: The Gemini 3 flight crew at NASA's Mission Control Center in Houston, Texas A full-scale rehearsal of the flight crew countdown for Gemini 3 was conducted at the launch site. Procedures were carried out for moving the flight crew from their quarters in the Manned Spacecraft Center operations building in Merritt Island ...
1965 – Higher Education Act of 1965; 1965 – Malcolm X, an African-American Muslim minister, public speaker, and human rights activist is assassinated in Harlem, New York; 1965 – The Watts riots in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, lasts six days and is the first of several major urban riots due to racial issues.
March 17 - In response to the events of March 7 and 9 in Selma, Alabama, President Lyndon B. Johnson sends a bill to Congress that forms the basis for the Voting Rights Act of 1965. It is passed by the Senate May 26, the House July 10, and signed into law by President Johnson August 6.
January 24, 1965: Sir Winston Churchill, former UK prime minister, dies aged 90 January 20, 1965: U.S. President Johnson inaugurated in Washington January 6, 1965: F-111, first plane with folding wings, takes flight January 6, 1965: Milan Cathedral completed after 567 years. The following events occurred in January 1965: