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January
The British Politician Winston Churchill died.
The United States launched the Tiros 9 weather satellite.
The unmanned Gemini 2 was launched
February
Canada changed to the Maple Leaf flag.
Malcolm X was assassinated.
Gambia received it’s independence from Britain.
Pegasus 1 was launched to detect micro meteoroids
Ranger 8 was launched to send pictures back from the Moon.
The USSR launched Kosmos 57 into Earth’s orbit.
March
Australia’s world record breaking swimmer Dawn Fraser was suspended and banned for ten years for misconduct.
TGI Friday’s opened it’s first restaurant New York.
The first man to walk in space was cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2.
The first American two man spacecraft Gemini 3 was launched into Earth’s orbit. Aboard were Gus Grissom and John Young.
April
Intelsat 1 The Early Bird communications satellite was launched and began it’s commercial service in June.
May
Jim Clark won the Indianapolis 500.
Muhammad Ali knocked out Sonny Liston in the first round with a Phantom Punch and retained his Heavy Weight title.
The USSR launched Luna 5.
June
The second man to walk in space was American Edward White leaving the spacecraft Gemini 4.
John Lennon's book "A Spaniard in the Works" was published.
Freddie Mills the former world light heavyweight boxing champion was found shot in his car.
Michel Fazy ran the mile in 3 minutes 53.6 seconds
July
The Mont Blanc road tunnel linking France and Italy was opened to traffic.
Mariner 1V sent back the first pictures of Mars.
August
The photographer David Bailey married the film actress Catherine Deneuve.
Cigarette advertising was banned on British television.
September
The American silent film star Clara Bow died in Los Angeles, California, aged sixty.
October
London's Post Office Tower was opened by the Prime Minister, Harold Wilson. It was the tallest building in England.
USSR launched Lunar 7 which crash landed on the Moon.
November
The S.S. "Yarmouth Castle" burned and sank off the Bahamas.
Craig Breedlove set the land speed record.
France launched Asterix and became the third country to launch a satellite.
Lee Breedlove the wife of Craig, sets the female land speed record at over 300 mph in Utah
The seventy mph speed limit was introduced on U.K. motorways.
December
Gemini 6 & Gemini 7 performed the first controlled rendezvous in Earth’s orbit.
Sea Gem a British off shore oil platform collapsed.
Writer William Somerset Maugham died in France.
Movies of 1965
Jane Fonda and Lee Marvin CAT BALLOU.
THE CINCINNATI KID Featured Steve McQueen and Edward G. Robinson.
Directed by David Lean and starred Omar Sharif and Julie Christie DOCTOR ZHIVAGO.
Produced and directed by George Stevens THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD.
Directed by Richard Lester HELP! starred The Beatles .
Kirk Douglas and Richard Harris in THE HEROES OF TELEMARK.
Michael Caine, Sue Lloyd and Gordon Jackson THE IPCRESS FILE.
OPERATION CROSSBOW Starred Sophia Loren, George Peppard, Tom Courtenay and John Mills.
The Fourth James Bond Film THUNDERBALL.
Directed by Mark Robson, starred Frank Sinatra and Trevor Howard VON RYAN’S EXPRESS.
WHAT’S NEW PUSSYCAT? With Peter Sellers, Peter O'Toole and Ursula Andress.
Sixties Events 1965
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