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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.
• March 19, 1965 – The wreck of the SS Georgiana, valued at over $50,000,000 and said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is discovered by teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence, exactly 102 years after its destruction.
• 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.
• July 25, 1965 – Bob Dylan goes electric as he plugs in at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music.
• July 26, 1965 – Full independence is granted to the Maldives.
• September 8, 1965 – Pakistan Navy raids Indian coasts without any resistance in Operation Dwarka, Pakistan celebrates Victory Day annually.
• September 22, 1965 – The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 (also known as the Second Kashmir War) between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, ends after the UN calls for a ceasefire.
• October 28, 1965 – Nostra aetate, the “Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions” of the Second Vatican Council, is promulgated by Pope Paul VI; it absolves the Jews of responsibility for the death of Jesus, reversing Innocent III’s 760-year-old declaration.
• November 6, 1965 – Cuba and the United States formally agree to begin an airlift for Cubans who want to go to the United States. By 1971, 250,000 Cubans had made use of this program.
• December 30, 1965 – Ferdinand Marcos becomes President of the Philippines.

Who Were Born On 1965?

• January 8, 1965 – Maria Pitillo, American actress
• March 14, 1965 – Kiana Tom, American actress, television host, and author
• April 28, 1965 – Jennifer Rardin, American author (d. 2010)
• May 3, 1965 – Rob Brydon, Welsh actor, producer, and screenwriter
• July 1, 1965 – Harald Zwart, Norwegian director and producer
• July 10, 1965 – Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark
• July 25, 1965 – Illeana Douglas, American actress, director, producer, and screenwriter
• August 1, 1965 – Sam Mendes, English director and producer
• September 17, 1965 – Bryan Singer, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• December 25, 1965 – Edward Davey, English politician, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change