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1965 Calendar Trivia

The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2027. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.

April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.

1965 Calendar

Historical Events Of 1965

• February 2, 1965 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Snake in Chinese astrology.
• April 6, 1965 – Launch of Early Bird, the first commercial communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit.
• June 4, 1965 – Duane Earl Pope robs the Farmers’ State Bank of Big Springs, Nebraska, killing three people execution-style and severely wounding a fourth. The crime later puts Pope on the FBI Ten Most Wanted list.
• June 7, 1965 – The Supreme Court of the United States hands down its decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples.
• June 9, 1965 – The civilian Prime Minister of South Vietnam, Phan Huy Quát, resigns after being unable to work with a junta led by Nguyễn Cao Kỳ.
• September 6, 1965 – India retaliates following Pakistan’s Operation Grand Slam which results in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 that ends in a stalemate and follows the signing of the Tashkent Declaration.
• September 9, 1965 – Hurricane Betsy makes its second landfall near New Orleans, leaving 76 dead and $1.42 billion ($10–12 billion in 2005 dollars) in damages, becoming the first hurricane to cause over $1 billion in unadjusted damage.
• September 17, 1965 – The Battle of Chawinda is fought between Pakistan and India.
• October 30, 1965 – Vietnam War: Near Da Nang, United States Marines repel an intense attack by Viet Cong forces, killing 56 guerrillas.
• November 24, 1965 – Joseph-Désiré Mobutu seizes power in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and becomes President; he rules the country (which he renames Zaire in 1971) for over 30 years, until being overthrown by rebels in 1997.

Who Were Born On 1965?

• January 2, 1965 – Greg Swindell, American baseball player and coach
• March 11, 1965 – Jenny Packham, English fashion designer
• April 20, 1965 – Adrián Fernández, Mexican race car driver
• April 25, 1965 – John Henson, American puppeteer and voice actor (d. 2014)
• May 24, 1965 – Shinichirō Watanabe, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter
• June 22, 1965 – Uwe Boll, German director, producer, and screenwriter
• October 12, 1965 – Scott O'Grady, American captain and pilot
• December 7, 1965 – Colin Hendry, Scottish footballer and manager
• December 8, 1965 – Theo Maassen, Dutch actor, producer, and screenwriter