1965 facts for kids

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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1930s 1940s 1950s – 1960s – 1970s 1980s 1990s
Years:	1962 1963 1964 – 1965 – 1966 1967 1968

1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar.

Contents

Events
Births
Deaths
Movies released
New books
Hit songs
Nobel Prizes
Images for kids
See also

Events

February 18 – The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom
June 15 - Victoria, Australia, coldest day on record -11.7°C at Omeo
July 16 – The Mont Blanc tunnel opens
August 9 – Singapore proclaims its independence from the Malaysian Federation.
September 8 – The hurricane "Betsy" is in Louisiana
The Left Banke forms

Births

January 8 – John Catliff, Canadian footballer
March 1 – Booker Huffman, American professional wrestler
May 7 – Owen Hart, Canadian professional wrestler (died 1999)
July 31 – J. K. Rowling, writer
August 25 – Mia Zapata, singer
August 28 – Shania Twain, singer
October 5 – Patrick Roy, Canadian retired ice hockey player
November 20 – Ben Stiller, actor

Deaths

January 4 – T. S. Eliot, poet
January 24 – Winston Churchill, British politician
February 2 – Nat Cole, jazz singer
February 21 – Malcolm X, leader of the Black Muslim Movement
February 23 – Stan Laurel, British comedian
March 18 – King Farouk I of Egypt

Movies released

Help!, starring The Beatles
Doctor Zhivago, starring Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, and Alec Guinness
The Sound of Music
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Thunderball
For a Few Dollars More
The Great Race
The Sons of Katie Elder
Girl Happy
The Legend of Blood Mountain
Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie
Report
A Thousand Clowns
Zorba the Greek
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
The Ipcress File
The Knack...And How to Get It, Cannes Grand Prize
Alphaville, Golden Bear winner
Cat Ballou
The Shop on Main Street
Juliet of the Spirits
Darling
Ship of Fools
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
The Agony and the Ectasy

New books

The Autobiography of Malcolm X – Alex Haley & Malcolm X
The British Museum Is Falling Down – David Lodge
Dune – Frank Herbert
Georgy Girl – Margaret Forster
The Green Berets – Robin Moore
Hotel – Arthur Hailey
The Looking-Glass War – John le Carré
The Magus – John Fowles
The Man with the Golden Gun – Ian Fleming
Markings – Dag Hammarskjöld
Morning's at Seven – Eric Malpass
The Painted Bird – Jerzy Kosinski
The Source – James A. Michener
Those Who Love – Irving Stone
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch – Philip K. Dick
Up the Down Staircase – Bel Kaufman

Hit songs

"Nowhere to Run" – Martha Reeve and the Vandellas

Nobel Prizes

Nobel Prize in Physics – Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Julian Schwinger, Richard P. Feynman
Chemistry – Robert B. Woodward, American chemist (for his synthetic work with natural products)
Medicine – François Jacob, André Lwoff, Jacques Monod
Literature – Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, Russian novelist
Peace – UNICEF

Images for kids

See also

In Spanish: 1965 para niños

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