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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 1, 1965 – The Hamilton River in Labrador, Canada is renamed the Churchill River in honour of Winston Churchill.
• February 2, 1965 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Snake in Chinese astrology.
• February 19, 1965 – Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, and a communist spy of the North Vietnamese Viet Minh, along with Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Trần Thiện Khiêm attempted a coup against the military junta of Nguyễn Khánh.
• March 23, 1965 – NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States’ first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young).
• April 9, 1965 – Astrodome opens. First indoor baseball game is played.
• September 9, 1965 – The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development is established.
• November 14, 1965 – Vietnam War: The Battle of Ia Drang begins – the first major engagement between regular American and North Vietnamese forces.
• 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.
• November 26, 1965 – In the Hammaguir launch facility in the Sahara Desert, France launches a Diamant-A rocket with its first satellite, Asterix-1, on board.
• November 27, 1965 – Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned operations are to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam has to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000.

Who Were Born On 1965?

• January 6, 1965 – Murray McLachlan, British concert pianist
• January 9, 1965 – Haddaway, Trinidadian-German singer
• February 22, 1965 – Chris Dudley, American basketball player and politician
• March 9, 1965 – Benito Santiago, Puerto Rican baseball player
• March 23, 1965 – Gary Whitehead, American poet and painter
• May 27, 1965 – Pat Cash, Australian-English tennis player and sportscaster
• July 9, 1965 – Frank Bello, American bass player (Anthrax and Helmet)
• November 22, 1965 – Mads Mikkelsen, Danish actor
• December 20, 1965 – Robert Cavanah, Scottish actor and director