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| 1965 |
| | | The Gambia becomes an independent member of the Commonwealth, with Dawda Jawara as prime minister | |
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| 1965 |
| | | Black activist and convert to Islam Malcolm X is assassinated when giving a speech in the Audubon Ballroom in New York | |
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| 1965 |
| | | George Grant publishes an influential political tract, Lament for a Nation: The Defeat of Canadian Nationalism | |
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| 1965 |
| | | The Vietnam War enters a new dimension with the deployment of US ground troops in the country | |
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| 1965 |
| | | Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov is the first to walk in space, moving round outside the Voshkod 2 spacecraft for more than ten minutes | |
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| 1965 |
| | | The first communications satellite, Early Bird, is launched from Cape Carnaveral | |
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| 1965 |
| | | Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras preside over simultaneous ceremonies, in Rome and Istanbul, revoking the mutual excommunications of 1054 | |
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| 1965 |
| | | US marines intervene in civil war in the Dominican Republic to prevent a communist takeover | |
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| 1965 |
| | | Woody Allen makes his screen debut with What's New Pussycat? | |
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| 1965 |
| | | Neil Simon's play The Odd Couple is produced in New York | |
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| 1965 |
| | | Australia sends a first contingent of 1500 troops to fight in Vietnam | |
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| 1965 |
| | | Ralph Nader begins a long career in consumer protection with Unsafe at Any Speed, attacking the US automobile industry | |
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| 1965 |
| | | 18-year-old Dutch footballer Johann Cruyff joins Ajax, the club with which he will be associated in numerous successes | |
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| 1965 |
| | | 18-year-old Austrian body-builder Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes Junior Mr Europe (on his way to Mr World and Mr Universe) | |
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| 1965 |
| | | Singapore leaves the Federation of Malaysia to become again an independent state | |
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| 1965 |
| | | Defence minister Houari Boumédienne leads a coup to oust President Ben Bella in Algeria | |
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| 1965 |
| | | Ferdinand Marcos wins a landslide victory in the Philippines presidential election | |
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| 1965 |
| | | Student demonstrations against Ne Win's rule become regular occurrences, suppressed with military violence | |
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| 1965 |
| | | Terence O'Neill and Séan Lemass, prime ministers of Northern Ireland and Ireland, have two unprecedented meetings | |
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| 1965 |
| | | Maria Callas gives her last performance, as Tosca at Covent Garden in London | |
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| 1965 |
| | | An exhibition in New York, 'The Responsive Eye', puts op art on the map | |
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| 1965 |
| | | President Johnson introduces affirmative action as a legislative policy to redress social inequalities | |
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| 1965 |
| | | Zahir Shah allows the first elections in his kingdom of Afghanistan | |
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| 1965 |
| | | US choreographer Robert Joffrey founds a new company that becomes known (from 1977) as the Joffrey Ballet | |
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| 1965 |
| | | US author Randall Jarrell's poem The Lost World provides the title for his last published book | |
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| 1965 |
| | | Stanley Matthews plays his last game for Stoke City after 34 years as a professional football player | |
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| 1965 |
| | | Riots break out in the Watts area of Los Angeles | |
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| 1965 |
| | | After a summer of border skirmishes in Pakistan, an Indian advance towards Lahore initiates full-scale war between the two countries | |
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| 1965 |
| | | A UN-sponsored cease-fire brings the second Indo-Pakistan war to an end after less than three weeks | |
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| c. 1965 |
| | | Karaoke (abbreviated from the Japanese for 'empty orchestra') evolves in Japan | |
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| 1965 |
| | | Based on interviews given to Alex Haley in 1964, a life of Malcolm X is published soon after his assassination | |
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| 1965 |
| | | Mobutu stages his second coup in the Congo and this time takes power as president | |
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| 1965 |
| | | Footballer Franz Beckenbauer plays his first international for West Germany | |
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| 1965 |
| | | Ian Smith makes a unilateral declaration of Rhodesia's independence | |
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| 1965 |
| | | German performance artist Joseph Beuys walks round a gallery demonstrating How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare | |
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| 1965 |
| | | The Second Vatican Council ends, having made some radical changes in the ritual and attitudes of the Roman Catholic church | |
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