Timeline 1965
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1965 Jan 1, The
Council on Religion and the Homosexual launched a gay Mardi Gras Ball
in San Francisco that was raided by police.
(SFC, 4/14/96, BR p.1)
1965 Jan 2, The New York Jets
signed University of Alabama quarterback Joe Namath for a reported
$427,000.
(AP, 1/2/08)
1965 Jan 2, Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr began a drive to register black voters.
(MC, 1/2/02)
1965 Jan 3, UC Berkeley officials
announced a new campus policy that allowed political activity on campus.
(SSFC, 6/9/02, p.F5)
1965 Jan 4, President Johnson
outlined the goals of his "Great Society" in his State of the Union
address. The "Great Society" was to be achieved through a vast program
that included an attack on diseases, a doubling of the war on poverty,
greater enforcement of Civil Rights Law, immigration law reform and
greater support of education.
(AP, 1/4/98)(HNQ, 9/11/99)
1965 Jan 4, T.S. Eliot, English
poet, died in London at age 76. In 1995 Anthony Julius published "T.S.
Eliot, Anti-Semitism and Literary Form." Julius was the lawyer who won
a divorce settlement of $23 million for Princess Diana in 1996. "Little
Gidding" is an Eliot work.
(SFC, 7/17/96, p.E6)(NH, 8/96, p.57)(AP, 1/4/98)
1965 Jan 5, Charles Robert Jenkins
(b.1940) deserted his US Army post at the Korean DMZ hoping to be
arrested, turned over to Russia and returned to the US. His plan failed
and he ended up living in North Korea where he married Hitomi Soga, a
Japanese woman kidnapped by North Korea in the 1970s. In 2004 Jenkins
reunited with his wife in Indonesia and in September turned himself in
to US military authorities in Japan. [see Sep 1, 1965] In 2008 Jenkins
with Jim Frederick authored “The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion,
Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea.”
(SFC, 11/2/02, p.A5)(SSFC, 5/23/04, p.A18)(WSJ,
7/12/04, p.A1)(AP, 9/1/04)(WSJ, 3/13/08,
p.D9)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Robert_Jenkins)
1965 Jan 8, the Star of India and
other stolen gems were returned to the American Museum of Natural
History in New York.
(AP, 1/8/05)
1965 Jan 13, Two U.S. planes were
shot down in Laos while on a combat mission.
(HN, 1/13/99)
1965 Jan 15, Sir Winston Churchill
suffered a severe stroke.
(HN, 1/15/99)
1965 Jan 16, "Outer Limits" last
aired on ABC-TV.
(MC, 1/16/02)
1965 Jan 16, Eighteen were
arrested in Mississippi for the murder of three civil rights workers.
(HN, 1/16/99)
1965 Jan 20, Byrds recorded "Mr.
Tambourine Man."
(MC, 1/20/02)
1965 Jan 20, Generalissimo
Francisco Franco met with Jewish representatives to discuss
legitimizing Jewish communities in Spain.
(MC, 1/20/02)
1965 Jan 24, Winston Churchill,
former prime minister (1940-45, 51-55), died from a cerebral thrombosis
in London at age 90. "I am always ready to learn, but I do not always
like to be taught." Lord Moran (Sir Charles Wilson), his personal
physician, later authored "Churchill At War: 1940-1945."
(AP, 1/24/98)(AP, 1/17/00)(HN, 1/24/01)(WSJ,
12/14/02, p.W10)
1965 Jan 27, Military leaders
ousted the civilian government of Tran Van Huong in Saigon, South
Vietnam.
(HN, 1/27/99)
1965 Jan 30, The state funeral of
Winston Churchill took place.
(MC, 1/30/02)
1965 Feb 1, In Selma, Alabama,
Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and 770 of his followers were arrested
on their civil rights march. They protested against voter
discrimination in Alabama.
(SFEC, 3/16/97, p.T1)(HN, 2/1/99)
1965 Feb 2, Joe Orton's farce,
"Loot," premiered in Brighton.
(MC, 2/2/02)
1965 Feb 6, A Viet Cong raid on a
base in Pleiku, South Vietnam, killed 7-8 US GIs.
(HN, 2/6/99)(SFC, 11/27/99, p.C3)
1965 Feb 7, U.S. jets hit Don Hoi
guerrilla base in reprisal for the Viet Cong raids. Pres. Johnson
ordered the bombing of North Vietnam following the deaths of 9 US
soldiers near Pleiku.
(HN, 2/7/99)(SFEC, 4/23/00, p.A19)
1965 Feb 7, Cassius Clay became a
Muslim and adopted the name Muhammad Ali.
(MC, 2/7/02)
1965 Feb 8, Pres. Lyndon B.
Johnson called for the development and protection of a balanced system
of trails to help protect and enhance the quality of the outdoor
experience.
(PCTA, 4/08)
1965 Feb 8, Eastern DC-7B crashed
into the Atlantic off Jones Beach, NJ, and 84 people were killed.
(MC, 2/8/02)
1965 Feb 8, South Vietnamese
bombed the North Vietnamese communications center at Vinh Linh.
(HN, 2/8/98)
1965 Feb 11, Pres. Lyndon Johnson
ordered air strikes against targets in North Vietnam, in retaliation
for guerrilla attacks on the American military in South Vietnam. The
American "Rolling Thunder" bombing campaign intensified. In 2006 Rick
Newman and Don Shepperd authored “Bury Us Upside Down: The Misty Pilots
and the Secret Battle for the Ho Chi Minh Trail,” an account of the
pilots who flew low scouting for targets that threatened US bombers.
(HN, 2/11/02)(WSJ, 3/2/06, p.D8)
1965 Feb 13, James Mitchell (23),
amateur explorer, died inside Schroeder’s Pants Cave in Dolgeville, NY.
His remains were recovered in 2006.
(SSFC, 6/25/06, p.A13)
1965 Feb 14, Malcolm X’s home was
firebombed. No injuries were reported.
(HN, 2/14/98)
1965 Feb 15, Canada replaced the
Union Jack flag with the Maple Leaf in ceremonies in Ottawa.
(CFA, '96, p.40)(HN, 2/15/98)(AP, 2/15/98)(440
Int’l., 2/15/99)
1965 Feb 15, John Lennon passed
his driving test.
(440 Int’l., 2/15/99)
1965 Feb 15, Nat King Cole (49),
singer (Unforgettable, Mona Lisa), died.
(MC, 2/15/02)
1965 Feb 16, Four persons were
held in a plot to blow up the Statue of Liberty, Liberty Bell and the
Washington Monument.
(HN, 2/16/98)
1965 Feb 18, Alabama police were
sent to Marion as some 500 people marched from a church toward the city
jail to protest the jailing of a civil rights worker. Street lights
went out and troopers began swinging clubs on the marchers. Jimmie Lee
Jackson (26) was shot while aiding his grandfather (82) and mother.
Jackson died 2 days later. In 2007 trooper James Bonard Fowler was
indicted for the shooting death of Jackson.
(SFC, 5/10/07, p.A3)
1965 Feb 18, Gambia gained
independence from Britain.
(SFC, 7/1/97, p.A9)(www.vdiest.nl/gambia.htm)
1965 Feb 19, Fourteen Vietnam War
protesters were arrested for blocking U.N. doors in New York.
(HN, 2/19/98)
1965 Feb 20, The Ranger 8
spacecraft crashed on the moon after sending back 7,000 photos of the
lunar surface.
(HN, 2/20/98)(AP, 2/20/98)
1965 Feb 21, Former Black Muslim
leader El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, aka Malcolm X (born as Malcolm Little,
39), was shot to death in front of 400 people in New York by
assassins identified as Black Muslims. He was murdered at the Audubon
Ballroom in Manhattan. His wife, Betty Shabazz, was pregnant with twins
and sat in the audience along with his 4-year-old daughter Quibilah.
Three men, Norman 3X Butler (Abdul Aziz), Khalil Islam, and Thomas
Hagan, connected to the Nation of Islam were convicted for the
assassination. Aziz was paroled in 1985 and in 1998 was appointed by
Louis Farrakhan to head a Harlem mosque. In 1992 James H. Cone authored
a book about Malcom X and Martin Luther King.
(TMC, 1994, p.1965)(SFC, 6/24/97, p.A3)(AP,
2/21/98)(SFC, 3/26/98, p.A3)(HN, 2/21/99)(SFC, 9/8/99, p.A7)
1965 Feb 23, Stan Laurel (74), the
"skinny" half of the Laurel and Hardy comedy team, died in Santa
Monica, Calif.
(AP, 2/23/00)
1965 Feb 24, Beatles began filming
"Help" in Bahamas.
(MC, 2/24/02)
1965 Feb 26, Spoony Singh Sundher
(1922-2006), Indian-born entrepreneur, opened his Hollywood Wax Museum
on Hollywood Blvd. close to Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. He charged $1.50
admittance.
(www.foxnews.com/wires/2006Oct21/0,4670,ObitSingh,00.html)
1965 Feb 26, Norman Butler was
arrested for the murder of Malcolm X.
(HN, 2/26/98)
1965 Feb 26, West Germany ceased
military aid to Tanzania.
(SC, 2/26/02)
1965 Feb 26, Jimmie Lee Jackson,
civil rights activist, died of injuries.
(SC, 2/26/02)
1965 Mar 1, Gas explosion killed
28 in apartment complex at La Salle, Quebec, Canada.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1965 Mar 2, The movie version of
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical “The Sound of Music,” starring Julie
Andrews and Christopher Plummer, had its world premiere at New York’s
Rivoli Theater. The musical, about the Trapp Family, was a hit on the
Great White Way for 3-1/2 years and one of the most popular motion
pictures of all time. It remains a classic even today. The movie
brought instant stardom for Miss Andrews, who went on to star in other
singing roles in the theatre, on television, in movies and as a popular
recording artist.
(AP, 3/2/05)
1965 Mar 2, More than 150 U.S. and
South Vietnamese planes bombed two bases in North Vietnam in the first
of the "Rolling Thunder" raids.
(HN, 3/2/99)
1965 Mar 3, Temptations' "My Girl"
reached #1.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1965 Mar 3, US performed a nuclear
test at Nevada Test Site.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1965 Mar 3, USSR performed a
nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan, Semipalitinsk, USSR.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1965 Mar 4, David Attenborough
became the new controller of BBC2.
(SC, 3/4/02)
1965 Mar 6, "How to Succeed in
Business" closed at 46th St NYC after 1415 performances.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1965 Mar 6, The U.S. announced
that it would send 3,500 troops to Vietnam.
(HN, 3/6/98)
1965 Mar 7, A march by some 600
civil rights demonstrators was broken up in Selma, Ala., by state
troopers and posse under Sheriff Jim Clark (d.2007). The Black
community of Marion, Ala., marched to protest the earlier killing of a
demonstrator by a state trooper. John Lewis, later US Representative,
led the march and was hit in the head by a state trooper.
(AP, 3/7/98)(SFC, 3/8/99, p.A9)(SFC, 11/27/99,
p.C3)(Econ, 6/16/07, p.99)
1965 Mar 8, The United States
landed its 1st combat troops, about 3,500 Marines, in Danang, South
Vietnam. More than 4,000 Marines landed in South Vietnam. They joined
some 23,000 Americans who had been serving as military advisors to
South Vietnam for several years.
(AP, 3/8/98)(HN, 3/8/98)(SFC, 8/18/00, p.D2)
1965 Mar 10, Neil Simon's play
"The Odd Couple," starring Walter Matthau as Oscar Madison and Art
Carney as Felix Unger, opened on Broadway.
(AP, 3/10/99)
1965 Mar 11, "I Lost It at the
Movies," a collection of film criticism by Pauline Kael, was first
published by Little, Brown and Co.
(AP, 3/11/05)
1965 Mar 11, The American navy
began inspecting Vietnamese junks in hopes of ending arms smuggling
to South Vietnam.
(HN, 3/11/99)
1965 Mar 11, The Rev. James J.
Reeb (65), a white minister from Boston, died after whites beat him
during civil rights disturbances in Selma, Ala.
(AP, 3/11/98)
1965 Mar 12, The SF FBI sent
bureau headquarters a secret 33-page report on Mario Savio, leader of
the Berkeley Free Speech Movement.
(SFCM, 10/10/04, p.18)
1965 Mar 12, Edward "Teddy" Deegan
was found dead in an alley in Chelsea, Mass. A week later an FBI memo
named 6 men, including Vincent J. Flemmi and Joseph "The Animal"
Barboza, as the killers. Barboza became a star witness and provided
false testimony to convict 4 innocent men. The New England Mafia
shotgunned Barboza in SF in 1976. Over the next 3 decades FBI
informants in Boston murdered over 20 people.
(SSFC, 7/28/02, p.A5)(SFC, 11/21/03, p.A3)
1965 Mar 15, Addressing a joint
session of Congress, President Johnson called for new legislation to
guarantee every American's right to vote. His speech was written by
Richard Goodwin.
(AP, 3/15/97)(WSJ, 4/12/08, p.W8)
1965 Mar 15, T.G.I. Friday's 1st
restaurant opened in NYC.
(MC, 3/15/02)
1965 Mar 15, Gamal Abdel Nasser
was re-elected Egyptian President.
(HN, 3/15/99)
1965 Mar 18, The first spacewalk
took place as Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov (30) left his Voskhod 2
capsule and remained outside the spacecraft for 20 minutes, secured by
a tether.
(SFC, 5/27/00, p.A26)(AP, 3/18/97)
1965 Mar 19, Indonesia
nationalized all foreign oil companies.
(MC, 3/19/02)
1965 Mar 19, Stoica became
president and Ceausescu party leader of Romania.
(MC, 3/19/02)
1965 Mar 20, Lyndon B. Johnson
ordered 4,000 troops to protect the Selma-Montgomery civil rights
marchers.
(HN, 3/20/98)
1965 Mar 21, Martin Luther King
Jr. led more than 3,000 civil rights demonstrators on the 50-mile march
to Montgomery from Selma.
(SFEC, 3/16/97, p.T1)(AP, 3/21/97)
1965 Mar 21, The U.S. launched
Ranger 9, last in a series of lunar explorations.
(HN, 3/21/98)
1965 Mar 22, US confirmed its
troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong in South Vietnam.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1965 Mar 22, Columbia Records
released Bob Dylan’s album "Bringing It All Back Home."
(SFC, 9/26/05, C3)
1965 Mar 23, America's first
two-person space flight began as Gemini 3 blasted off from Cape Kennedy
with astronauts Virgil I. Grissom and John W. Young aboard for a nearly
five-hour flight. Young sneaked a corned beef sandwich on board, for
which he was later reprimanded.
(AP, 3/23/08)
1965 Mar 23, Police in Casablanca,
Morocco, cracked down on students and workers campaigning for social
justice and about 100 were killed. In the 1970s the "March 23 movement"
for social rights was named for this day.
(SFC, 4/13/01, p.A14)(SS, 3/23/02)
1965 Mar 24, US Ranger 9 struck
the Moon, 10 miles (16 km) NE of crater Alphonsus.
(MC, 3/24/02)
1965 Mar 25, The opera "Lizzie
Borden" premiered in NYC. It was composed by Jack Beeson with a
libretto by Kenward Elmslie. The initial scenario was written by
Richard Plant (d.1997 at 87).
(SFC, 3/17/98, p.A20)
1965 Mar 25, Martin Luther King
Jr. led a group of 25,000 to the state capital in Montgomery Ala. to
protest the denial of voting rights to blacks. Civil Rights pressures
increased in the US and blacks and whites marched in Selma and
Montgomery.
(TMC, 1994, p.1965)(AP, 3/25/97)(HN, 3/24/98)
1965 Mar 25, Viola Liuzzo
(b.1925), a white civil rights worker from Detroit, was shot and killed
by the Ku Klux Klan on a road near Selma, Ala. The later trial of
Collie Leroy Jenkins, one of 3 men charged in the killing, ended in a
hung jury. Jenkins was also acquitted at a 2nd trial but was later
convicted along with Eugene Thomas of civil rights violations in
federal court and sentenced to 10 years in prison.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_Liuzzo)(SSFC,
7/20/08, p.B6)
1965 Mar 25, West German Bondsdag
extended war crimes retribution.
(MC, 3/25/02)
1965 Mar, In this issue of
American Scientist Henry David Block showed how easy it was to build a
computer that learns using just dixie cups and cardboard. Block called
his computer G-1 (G is for Golem, the robot slave of Jewish legend). He
used the game of Nim to illustrate his subject.
(NOHY, 3/90, p.204)
1965 Apr 1, King Hussein bin Talal
of Jordanian appointed his younger brother, Prince Hassan bin Talal, as
crown prince and heir to the Hashemite throne. This required a
change to the Jordan constitution to allow for fraternal succession.
(MC, 4/1/02)
1965 Apr 1, Henry D.G. Crerar
(b.1888), Canadian general and the country's "leading field commander"
in World War II, died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Crerar)
1965 Apr 1, Helena Rubinstein
(89), US cosmetic manufacturer, died. In 2004 Lindy Woodhead authored
“War Paint: Madame Helena Rubinstein & Miss Elizabeth Arden: Their
Lives, Their times, Their Rivalry.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Rubinstein)(SSFC, 3/8/09, p.G1)
1965 Apr 2, Rodney King, black
motorist brutally beaten by LA cops, was born in Sacramento, Calif.
(MC, 4/2/02)
1965 Apr 2, Rolf Hochhuth's play
"The Deputy," which blamed Pope Pius XII for war crimes, was banned in
Italy.
(MC, 4/2/02)
1965 Apr 5, In the 37th Academy
Awards "My Fair Lady," Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews won.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1965 Apr 5, Lava Lamp Day was
celebrated.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1965 Apr 5, The second
Indo-Pakistani conflict began when fighting broke out in the Rann of
Kachchh, a sparsely inhabited region along the West Pakistan-India
border.
(Encyclopaedia.com, 2002)
1965 Apr 6, President Lyndon B.
Johnson authorized the use of ground troops in combat operations.
(HN, 4/6/99)
1965 Apr 6, The
United States launched the Intelsat I, also known as the "Early Bird"
communications satellite.
(AP, 4/6/08)
1965 Apr 8, Erik A. Blomberg (70),
Swedish art historian, poet, author, died.
(MC, 4/8/02)
1965 Apr 9, The newly built
Houston Astrodome featured its first baseball game, an exhibition
between the Astros and the New York Yankees. Mickey Mantle hit the 1st
indoor homerun, but the Astros won, 2-1 in 12 innings.
(WSJ, 10/15/98, p.B8)(AP, 4/9/09)
1965 Apr 9, India and Pakistan
engaged in a border fight.
(MC, 4/9/02)
1965 Apr 10, Linda Darnell (41),
actress, died from burns received in a fire.
(MC, 4/10/02)
1965 Apr 11, A series of tornados
left 256 people dead in the US Midwest.
(WSJ, 9/13/01, p.B11)
1965 Apr 13, Beatles recorded
"Help."
(MC, 4/13/02)
1965 Apr 13, Lawrence Wallace
Bradford Jr. (16) was appointed by New York Republican Jacob Javits to
be the first black page of the US Senate.
(AP, 4/13/02)
1965 Apr 14, Perry E. Smith and
Robert E. Hickok, US murderers, were hanged. Their 1959 murder of a
Kansas farm family was described by Truman Capote (1924-1984) in his
1965 book: “In Cold Blood”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Smith_(murderer))(WSJ, 5/19/07,
p.P8)
1965 Apr 17, Students for a
Democratic Society (SDS) held its 1st anti-Vietnam war protest rally in
Washington DC. Daniel Ellsburg helped Patricia Marx tape the event for
public radio.
(SSFC, 10/20/02, p.M1)
1965 Apr 17, A stretch of the
Mississippi River near Minneapolis crested at a record high. Flooding
caused $100 million in damages and left 12 people dead.
(SFC, 4/17/09, p.D8)
1965 Apr 19, An article in
Electronics magazine by Gordon Moore, later Intel Chairman, noted that
chips seem to double in power every 18 months. Thus was born Moore's
Law. Moore later asserted that his claim was that the number of
components that can be packed on a computer chip doubles every 2 years.
In 2005 Intel offered $10,000 for a pristine copy of the magazine.
(SFEC, 12/21/97, p.A2)(SFC, 10/11/00, p.A6)(SFC,
4/12/05, p.A1)(SFC, 4/18/05, p.E1)
1965 Apr 19, At a cost of $20,000,
the outer Houston Astrodome ceiling was painted because of sun's glare.
This in turn caused the grass to die.
(MC, 4/19/02)
1965 Apr 21, New York World's Fair
reopened for a 2nd and final season.
(MC, 4/21/02)
1965 Apr 24, Che Guevara, his
second-in-command Victor Dreke, and twelve of the Cuban expeditionaries
arrived in the Congo. Guevara, Cuba’s head of the national bank and
minister of industry, left Cuba to foment revolution in the Congo. He
spent most of 1965 and 1966 in Central Africa, helping anti-Mobuto
revolutionaries in the Republic of Congo. This turned out to be a
disaster and he went to Bolivia.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara)
1965 Apr 27, RC Duncan patented
"Pampers," a disposable diaper.
(MC, 4/27/02)
1965 Apr 27, Edward R. Murrow
(b.1908), newscaster (Person to Person), died of cancer in Pawling,
N.Y. He had filed radio broadcast from London during the WW II German
air raids. In 1986 A.M. Sperber authored “Murrow: His Life and Times.”
(AP, 4/27/05)(SFC, 2/10/06, p.E11)(WSJ, 12/1/07,
p.W10)
1965 Apr 28, Barbra Streisand
starred on "My Name is Barbra" special on CBS.
(MC, 4/28/02)
1965 Apr 28, U.S. Army and Marines
under US Pres. Lyndon Johnson invaded the Dominican Republic to stop a
civil war. Johnson sent 22,800 troops at the urging of Thomas Mann
(d.1999 at 87), a high state department official. The troops stayed
until stay until Oct 1966.
(SFC, 5/17/96, p.A-14)(HN, 4/28/98)(MC, 4/28/02)
1965 Apr 29, Seattle experienced
an earthquake. 7 people were killed and damage was estimated at $12.5
million.
(http://neic.usgs.gov)
1965 Apr 29, Australian government
announced it would send troops to Vietnam.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1965 May 1, Spike Jones (53),
composer (Spike Jones Show), died.
(MC, 5/1/02)
1965 May 1, In Czechoslovakia
Allen Ginsberg was crowned King of May at the Prague May Day
celebration.
(SFEC, 4/6/97, p.A10)
1965 May 1, USSR launched Luna 5;
later lands on Moon.
(MC, 5/1/02)
1965 May 2, Intelsat 1, also known
as the Early Bird satellite, was used to transmit television pictures
across the Atlantic.
(AP, 5/2/08)
1965 May 4, Willie Mays hit his
512th HR and broke Mel Ott's 511 NL record.
(MC, 5/4/02)
1965 May 5, 1st large-scale US
Army ground units arrived in South Vietnam.
(MC, 5/5/02)
1965 May 10, Warren Buffett of
Omaha, Nebraska, took control of Berkshire-Hathaway. The textile
company closed at $18 per share. In 2006 shares of Berkshire-Hathaway
passed $100,000 per share.
(WSJ, 10/24/06, p.C1)
1965 May 11, The US 10th fighter
Bomber F105D was shot down at Xien Khouong, Laos.
(SSFC, 11/9/03, p.D6)
1965 May 11-12, In East Pakistan a
cyclone killed some 12,000.
(www.emergency-management.net/cyclone.htm)
1965 May 12, West Germany and
Israel exchanged letters establishing diplomatic relations.
(AP, 5/12/97)
1965 May 13, Rolling Stones
recorded "Satisfaction,"
(SS, Internet, 5/13/97)
1965 May 13, Several Arab nations
broke ties with West Germany after it established diplomatic relations
with Israel.
(MC, 5/13/02)
1965 May 14, An acre at the field
at Runnymede, the site of the signing of the Magna Carta, was dedicated
by Queen Elizabeth as a memorial to the late John F. Kennedy, US
President.
(www.camelotintl.com/365_days/may.html)(http://tinyurl.com/flw65)
1965 May 14, Frances Perkins (83),
US 1st female minister of Labor (1933-45), died.
(MC, 5/14/02)
1965 May 16, Spaghetti-O's were
1st sold.
(MC, 5/16/02)
1965 May 18, President Lyndon B.
Johnson officially announced the Head Start program in the White House
Rose Garden. The program was soon launched with Dr. Julius Richmond
(1916-2008), former US surgeon general under pres. Carter, as the first
director.
(www.ilheadstart.org/historical.html)
1965 May 18, Gene Roddenberry
suggested 16 names including Kirk for Star Trek Captain.
(SC, 5/18/02)
1965 May 18, Eduard J.
Dijksterhuis (72), mathematician (Archimedes), died.
(SC, 5/18/02)
1965 May 22,
"Super-cali-fragil-istic-expi-ali-docious" hit #66.
(MC, 5/22/02)
1965 May 22, Heinrich Barth, Swiss
philosopher (Das Sein in der Zeit), died.
(MC, 5/22/02)
1965 May 23, David Smith (b.1906),
American sculptor, died in Albany NY. His farm in upstate New York was
named the Terminal Iron Works. His work included "Circle and Box," "XI
Books, III Apples," "Lunar Arc," "Becca" and "Rebecca Circle."
(www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_bio_146B.html)
1965 May 24, Supreme Court
declared a federal law allowing the post office to intercept communist
propaganda as unconstitutional.
(MC, 5/24/02)
1965 May 25, Mark Knight, rock
guitarist (Bang Tango-Dancin' on Coals), was born in California.
(SC, 5/25/02)
1965 May 25, Remco Prins, Dutch
rock guitarist/vocalist (Burma Shave-Stash), was born.
(SC, 5/25/02)
1965 May 25, Roef-Ragas, Dutch
actor (Missing Link, Red Rain, Juju, Mykosch), was born.
(SC, 5/25/02)
1965 May 25, Muhammad Ali KO’d
Sonny Liston in 1st round for heavyweight boxing title.
(SC, 5/25/02)
1965 May 25, Sonny Boy Williamson
[Aleck Miller], blues player, died.
(SC, 5/25/02)
1965 May 25, India and Pakistan
engaged in border fights.
(SC, 5/25/02)
1965 May 30, Vivian Malone (later
Vivian Malone Jones) became the first black graduate of the University
of Alabama with a degree in Business Management.
(NYT, 10/14/2005, p.C15)
1965 May 30, Viet Cong offensive
began against US base at Da Nang, South Vietnam.
(MC, 5/30/02)
1965 Jun 1, A. Penzias and R.
Wilson detected a 3 degree (Kelvin) microwave primordial background
radiation.
(V.D.-H.K.p.335)(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1965 Jun 1, Near Fukuoka, Japan,
a coal mine explosion killed 236.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1965 Jun 1-1965 Jun 2, The 2nd of
2 cyclones in less than a month killed 35,000 along the Ganges River in
East Pakistan.
(www.emergency-management.net/cyclone.htm)
1965 Jun 3, Astronaut Edward White
became the first American to "walk" in space, during the flight of
Gemini 4.
(AP, 6/3/97)
1965 Jun 7, Gemini 4 completed 62
orbits.
(SC, 6/7/02)
1965 Jun 7, Judy Holiday (42),
actress, died.
(SC, 6/7/02)
1965 Jun 8, President Lyndon B.
Johnson authorized commanders in Vietnam to commit U.S. ground forces
to combat.
(HN, 6/8/98)
1965 Jun 12, Big Bang theory of
creation of universe was supported by announcement of discovery of new
celestial bodied know as blue galaxies.
(MC, 6/12/02)
1965 Jun 14, A military
triumvirate took control in Saigon, South Vietnam.
(HN, 6/14/98)
1965 Jun 17, Twenty-seven B-52’s
hit Viet Cong outposts but lost two planes in South Vietnam.
(HN, 6/17/98)
1965 Jun 19, R.C., "I Can't Help
Myself" by Four Tops peaked at #1 on the pop singles chart.
(DTnet, 6/19/97)
1965 Jun 19, Air Marshall Nguyen
Cao Ky became South Vietnam’s youngest premier at age 34.
(HN, 6/19/98)
1965 Jun 19, Col. Houari
Boumedienne (1932-1978) overthrew Pres. Ahmed Ben Bella, Algeria's
first civilian president. Abdelaziz Bouteflika was Boumedienne's
right-hand man.
(SFEC, 4/18/99,
p.A22)(www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0107272.html)
1965 Jun 21, Bernard M. Baruch
(94), US presidential advisor, died.
(MC, 6/21/02)
1965 Jun 22, David O. Selznick,
producer, died at 63. His films included "Gone With the Wind." In 1992
David Thomson authored "Showman: The Life of David O. Selznick." In
1972 his collected memos were edited by Rudy Behlmer and published as
“Memo From David O. Selznick.”
(YarraNet, 6/22/00)(SFCM, 3/29/02, p.41)(WSJ,
1/7/07, p.P8)
1965 Jun 26, "Mr. Tambourine Man"
by The Byrds reached the number one spot on the pop music charts.
(SFC, 9/26/06, p.D7)
1965 Jul 3, Trigger (25), the
golden palomino horse of Roy Rogers, died. Trigger was mounted by
Bishoff's Taxidermy of California and were on display for years at the
Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Museum in Victorville, California. The
original Trigger is currently on display at The Roy Rogers - Dale Evans
Museum in Branson, Missouri.
(SFC, 7/7/98,
p.A2)(www.surfnetinc.com/chuck/hoss-rr.htm)
1965 Jul 5, Porfirio Rubirosa
(b.1909), Dominican Republic playboy and husband to French actress
Odile Rodin, died in a car crash in Paris. His 5 wives included
Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton. In 2005 Shawn Levy authored “The Last
Playboy: The High Life of Porfirio Rubirosa.”
(http://tinyurl.com/bfdj4)(SSFC, 10/16/05, p.M3)
1965 Jul 14, The American space
probe Mariner 4 flew by Mars and sent back 22 photographs of the
planet. These were the 1st images of Mars taken from a spacecraft.
(AP, 7/14/97)(SFC, 12/8/99, p.A19)
1965 Jul 14, U.S. Ambassador Adlai
E. Stevenson Jr., the Democratic presidential nominee in 1952 and 1956,
died in London at age 65. Jean Baker in 1996 published a 1996 biography
of the Stevenson family.
(AP, 7/14/97)(SFEC, 6/6/99, p.A19,21)
1965 Jul 15, US scientists
displayed close-up photographs of the planet Mars taken by "Mariner
Four." It passed over Mars at an altitude of 6,000 feet.
(AP, 7/15/00)
1965 Jul 16, Mount Blanc Road
tunnel between France & Italy opened.
(MC, 7/16/02)
1965 Jul 19, Syngman Rhee (90),
president of South-Korea (1948-60), died.
(MC, 7/19/02)
1965 Jul 24, The Mauna Kea Beach
Hotel on the Big Island of Hawaii opened.
(WSJ, 9/18/96, Ad. Supl. p.16)
1965 Jul 25, Folk-rock began when
Dylan used electricity at the Newport Folk Festival, RI.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1965 Jul 26, Republic of Maldives
gained independence from Britain.
(www.findmaldives.com/Maldives-Independence.html)
1965 Jul 27, Pres. Johnson signed
a bill requiring cigarette makers to print health warnings on all
cigarette packages about the effects of smoking.
(MC, 7/27/02)
1965 Jul 28, President Johnson
announced he was increasing the number of American troops in South
Vietnam to 175,000 "almost immediately."
(HN, 7/28/98)(AP, 7/28/08)
1965 Jul 29, Beatles movie "Help"
premiered and Queen Elizabeth attended.
(MC, 7/29/02)
1965 Jul 30, President Johnson
signed into law the Medicare bill, which went into effect the following
year. John W. Gardner (d.2002), a member of Johnson’s cabinet, was
responsible for starting Medicare. A statute required coverage of items
that were reasonable and necessary.
(AP, 7/30/97)(SFC, 2/18/02, p.A6)(WSJ, 7/16/03, p.A1)
1965 Jul, Bill Moyers replaced
George E. Reedy as press secretary to Pres. Johnson.
(SFC, 3/22/99, p.A22)
1965 Aug 2, Newsman Morley Safer
filmed the destruction of the Vietnamese village of Cam Ne by US
Marines. Safer sent the 1st Vietnam report indicating we are losing.
Safer’s report was broadcast by CBS on August 5 and led Pres. Johnson
to call CBS demanding that Safer be fired. CBS president Frank Stanton
refused to fire Safer.
(HN, 8/2/98)(WSJ, 12/30/06, p.A8)
1965 Aug 6, The Voting Rights Act
of 1965 was passed and signed by President Johnson. It outlawed the
literacy test for voting eligibility in the South. It was later used to
justify drawing some congressional districts that would make the
architects of South Africa's apartheid blush. In 1995 Roberts and
Stratton authored "The New Color Line: How Quotas and Privilege Destroy
Democracy."
(WSJ, 10/26/95, p.A-20)(HFA, '96, p.36)(AP,
8/6/97)(HN, 8/6/98)
1965 Aug 6, Indian troops invaded
Pakistan. Indo-Pakistani fighting spread to Kashmir and to the Punjab,
The 2nd Indo-Pakistani conflict started without a formal declaration of
war. Skirmishes with Indian forces started as early as August 6 or 7.
(http://ph.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0858805.html)(MC, 8/6/02)
1965 Aug 9, Singapore proclaimed
its independence from the Malaysian Federation. Singapore became
independent from Britain and was booted from the Malayan federation.
Lee Kuan Yew became the new prime minister.
(AP,8/9/97)(WSJ,6/11/96,p.A9A)(SFC,6/8/96,p.A11)(WSJ,12/31/96, p.1)
1965 Aug 11, Beatles movie "Help"
opened in NYC.
(MC, 8/11/02)
1965 Aug 11, Rioting and looting
broke out in the predominantly black Watts section of Los Angeles. A
small clash between the California Highway Patrol and two black youths
sets off six days of rioting in the Watts area of Los Angeles.
(AP, 8/11/97)(SFEC, 5/23/99, Z1 p.4)(HN,
8/11/00)(MC, 8/11/02)
1965 Aug 12, There was a race riot
in West Side of Chicago.
(SC, 8/12/02)
1965 Aug 13, In SF the Jefferson
Airplane made its first public performance opening at the new Matrix
club on Fillmore. The band held an ownership interest in the club.
(SFEC, 5/23/99, Z1 p.4)(SFC, 11/17/08, p.E4)
1965 Aug 14, The Beatles taped an
appearance for the Ed Sullivan Show.
(MC, 8/14/02)
1965 Aug 14, Sonny and Cher's "I
Got You Babe" hit #1.
(MC, 8/14/02)
1965 Aug 14, The first major
engagement between the regular armed forces of India and Pakistan took
place. The next day, Indian forces scored a major victory after a
prolonged artillery barrage and captured three important mountain
positions in the northern sector. Later in the month, the Pakistanis
counterattacked, moving concentrations near Tithwal, Uri, and Punch.
Their move, in turn, provoked a powerful Indian thrust into Azad
Kashmir. Other Indian forces captured a number of strategic mountain
positions and eventually took the key Haji Pir Pass, eight kilometers
inside Pakistani territory.
(Encyclopaedia.com,
2002)(http://ph.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0858805.html)
1965 Aug 15, Beatles played to
55,000 at Shea Stadium.
(MC, 8/15/02)
1965 Aug 16, The Watts riots ended
in south-central LA after six days with the help of 20,000 National
Guardsmen; the riots left 34 dead, 857 injured, over 2,200 arrested,
and property valued at $200 million destroyed. The riots started when
police on August 11th brutally beat a black motorist suspected of
drunken driving in Watts area of LA.
(HN, 8/16/00)(MC, 8/16/02)
1965 Aug 17, Glen Goldsmith,
rocker (What You See is What You Get), was born.
(SC, 8/17/02)
1965 Aug 18, Operation Starlite
marked the beginning of major U.S. ground combat operations in Vietnam.
(HN, 8/18/98)
1965 Aug 19, U.S. forces destroyed
a Viet Cong stronghold near Van Tuong, in South Vietnam.
(HN, 8/19/98)
1965 Aug 19, The Auschwitz trials
ended with only 6 life sentences.
(MC, 8/19/02)
1965 Aug 21, Gemini 5 was launched
into Earth orbit atop Titan V with Cooper and Conrad.
(SFC, 7/9/99, p.A6)
1965 Aug 27, Bob Dylan was booed
off stage in NY's Forest Hills.
(MC, 8/27/01)
1965 Aug 27-1965 Sep 13, Hurricane
Betsy killed 75 in Louisiana & Florida. Betsy left New Orleans
under 7 feet of water.
(www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/Storm_pages/betsy1965/)(WSJ,
8/31/05, p.B1)
1965 Aug 27, Le Corbusier
(b.1887), Swiss-French architect and writer, died. He was born as
Charles Edouard Jeanneret-Gris in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. His
book included books include “Vers une architecture” (Towards a New
Architecture) (1923), “The City of Tomorrow” (1925), and “When the
Cathedrals Were White” (1937).
(www.kirjasto.sci.fi/lecorbu.htm)
1965 Aug 28, Bob Dylan was scorned
at a concert in NY's Forest Hills.
(www.punkhart.com/dylan/tapes/65-aug28.html)
1965 Aug 28, The Viet Cong were
routed in the Mekong Delta by U.S. forces, with more than 50 killed.
(HN, 8/28/98)
1965 Aug 29, Gemini 5, carrying
astronauts Gordon Cooper and Charles ("Pete") Conrad, splashed down in
the Atlantic after eight days in space.
(AP, 8/29/97)
1965 Aug 30, Columbia Records
released Bob Dylan’s album "Highway 61 Revisited."
(SFC, 9/26/05,
C3)(www.ddg.com/LIS/glenn/DYLANWEB.HTM)
1965 Aug 31, The US House of Reps
joined Senate to establish Dept of Housing & Urban Develop.
(MC, 8/31/01)
1965 Sep 1-19, Indian gains led to
a major Pakistani counterattack in the southern sector, in Punjab,
where Indian forces were caught unprepared and suffered heavy losses.
The sheer strength of the Pakistani thrust, which was spearheaded by
seventy tanks and two infantry brigades, led Indian commanders to call
in air support. Pakistan retaliated on September 2 with its own air
strikes in both Kashmir and Punjab.
(http://www.onwar.com/aced/chrono/c1900s/yr65/fkashmir1965)
(WSJ, 6/11/96, p.A12)(SFEC, 8/3/97, p.A15)(HN,
9/6/98)(SFC, 6/8/02, p.A20)(MC, 9/1/02)(Encyclopaedia.com, 2002)
1965 Sep 2, The Treblinka trial in
Dusseldorf ended.
(MC, 9/2/01)
1965 Sep 3, Preparing a move to
Anaheim, the LA Angels baseball team change their name to California
Angels.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1965 Sep 4, Philosopher, musician,
doctor, theologian and humanitarian Albert Schweitzer died. Born near
Alsace, Germany, in 1875, Schweitzer decided to devote himself to
providing health care to people in Africa at the age of 30. Schweitzer
and his wife Hélène moved to Gabon in 1913 and opened a
hospital in Lambaréné, which he later expanded with money
from the Nobel Peace Prize he was awarded in 1952. Schweitzer also
spoke out against the dangers of nuclear weapons, became an organist
and expert on Johann Sebastian Bach, and served as a church pastor and
university professor. He lived by the principle of "reverence for life."
(HNPD, 9/4/98)
1965 Sep 6, India and Pakistan
began a second war over Kashmir. Pakistan paratroopers raided Punjab.
It ended in a cease-fire that left India with control of two-thirds of
Kashmir.
(WSJ, 6/11/96, p.A12)(SFEC, 8/3/97, p.A15)(HN,
9/6/98)(SFC, 6/8/02, p.A20)
1965 Sep 8, An AFL-CIO affiliated
Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC), a union of mostly
Filipino workers, voted to go on strike in Delano, Ca. They were joined
after eleven days by Cesar Chavez and the National Farm Workers Assoc.
In 1967 John Gregory Dunne (1932-2003) authored "Delano," an account of
the California grape strike.
(SFEC,10/19/97, p.C3)(SFC, 1/1/04, p.A23)
1965 Sep 8, Dorothy Danridge,
actress (Island in the Sun), died at 41 in Hollywood.
(MC, 9/8/01)
1965 Sep 9, US Navy pilot James
Stockdale (d.2005) was shot down in Vietnam. He was beaten, tortured
and taken to Hoa Lo prison (Hanoi Hilton) and released in 1973. In 1992
he ran as VP candidate with Ross Perot.
(SFC, 7/6/05, p.B7)
1965 Sep 9, Francois Mitterrand
was nominated for French presidency.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1965 Sep 9, French President
Charles de Gaulle announced that France was withdrawing from the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), in protest of U.S. domination in
the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1965 Sep 11, The US 1st Cavalry
Division (Airmobile), arrived in South Vietnam and was stationed at An
Khe.
(HN, 9/11/98)
1965 Sep 14, The situation comedy
"My Mother the Car" premiered on NBC-TV.
(AP, 9/14/05)
1965 Sep 14, The TV show "F-Troop"
premiered. It ended in 1967 after 65 episodes.
(http://www.televisionwesterns.com/table/F-Troop.html)
1965 Sep 14, Dmitry Medvedev was
born in Leningrad. In 2008 with the backing of Vladimir Putin, he
became prime minister of Russia.
(WSJ, 2/28/08, p.A14)
1965 Sep 14, The 4th meeting of
2nd Vatican council opened.
(http://www.vatican.va)
1965 Sep 15, The TV show "Lost in
Space," with its Space Family Robinson and robot premiered on CBS. It
was set in the year 1997 and cancelled in 1968. The CBS TV show
featured Guy Williams, June Lockhart, Billy Mumy and Jonathon Harris
(d.2002 at 87).
(SFC, 8/27/96, p.B2)(AP, 9/15/97)(SFEC, 1/3/99, DB
p.28)(SFC, 11/6/02, p.A34)
1965 Sep 16, "The Dean Martin
Show" premiered on NBC.
(AP, 9/16/05)
1965 Sep 17, "The Smothers
Brothers Show", debuted on CBS TV.
(MC, 9/17/01)
1965 Sep 18, The NBC situation
comedies "I Dream of Jeannie" and "Get Smart" premiered.
(AP, 9/18/05)
1965 Sep 20, Seven U.S. planes
were downed in one day over Vietnam.
(HN, 9/20/98)
1965 Sep 20, The India-Pakistani
war was at the point of stalemate when the UN Security Council
unanimously passed a resolution that called for a cease-fire. New Delhi
accepted the cease-fire resolution on September 21 and Islamabad on
September 22, and the war ended on September 23. The Indian side lost
3,000 while the Pakistani side suffered 3,800 battlefield deaths.
(http://www.onwar.com/aced/chrono/c1900s/yr65/fkashmir1965)
1965 Sep 22, Pakistan agreed to
the UN brokered cease-fire that India affirmed the day before. [see Jan
10, 1966]
(HNQ, 4/26/99)
1965 Sep 25, 60 year old Satchel
Paige of the Kansas City A's pitched 3 scoreless innings.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1965 Sep 26, Queen Elizabeth
decorated the Beatles with the Order of the British Empire.
(MC, 9/26/01)
1965 Sep 28, A volcano exploded on
Luzon, Philippines; 500 killed.
(MC, 9/28/01)
1965 Sep 30, President Lyndon
Johnson signed legislation that established the National Foundation for
the Arts and the Humanities.
(HN, 9/30/98)
1965 Sep 30, In Indonesia
procommunist military officers, calling themselves the September 30
Movement (Gestapu), attempted to seize power.
(http://countrystudies.us/indonesia/21.htm)
1965 Oct 1, In Indonesia a small
force of junior military officers abducted and killed six generals in
the early morning hours and seized several key points in the capital
city of Jakarta. Gen. Suharto crushed the coup and soon seized power
from Pres. Sukarno.
(www.namebase.org/scott.html)
1965 Oct 4, Pope Paul VI became
the first reigning pontiff to visit the Western Hemisphere as he
addressed the U.N. General Assembly.
(AP, 10/4/97)
1965 Oct 5, U.S. forces in Saigon,
South Vietnam, received permission to use tear gas.
(HN, 10/5/98)
1965 Oct 6, Patricia Harris took
post as U.S. Ambassador to Belgium, becoming the first African-American
U.S. ambassador.
(HN, 10/6/98)
1965 Oct 8, London's Post Office
Tower opened as the tallest building in England.
(MC, 10/8/01)
1965 Oct 9, Beatles' "Yesterday,"
single went #1 and stays #1 for 4 weeks.
(MC, 10/9/01)
1965 Oct 10, Ronald Reagan spoke
at Coalinga Junior College and called for an official declaration of
war in Vietnam.
(SSFC, 6/9/02, p.F5)
1965 Oct 10, The "Vinland Map" was
introduced by Yale University as being the 1st known map of America,
drawn about 1440 by Norse explorer Lief Eriksson.
(MC, 10/10/01)
1965 Oct 16, The world’s first
acid rock dance was held at Longshoreman’s Hall. Top band on the bill
was the Charlatan’s with Dan Hicks, a house band from the Red Dog
Saloon in Virginia City. The Jefferson Airplane also made its first
concert appearance. Alton Kelley (1940-2008) and 3 other people, under
the name Family Dog, staged the dance concert.
(www.chickenonaunicycle.com/FD%20Shows%20Full%20List.htm)(SFC, 6/3/08,
p.B5)
1965 Oct 17, The musical "On A
Clear Day You Can See Forever," with a score by Burton Lane and book
and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, opened on Broadway.
(AP, 10/17/05)
1965 Oct 20, Beatles received a
gold record for "Yesterday."
(MC, 10/20/01)
1965 Oct 21, Robert B.
Woodward was awarded the Nobel prize for chemistry, "for his
outstanding achievements in the art of organic synthesis."
(http://nobelprize.org/chemistry/laureates/1965/index.html)
1965 Oct 20, Mass arrests of
communists took place in Indonesia. Some 500,000 Chinese Indonesians
were killed in anti-Communist riots in this year. Laws restricting
Chinese culture were later established, reportedly to promote
assimilation and protect Chinese Indonesians. [see 1966] The laws
included a ban on publicly celebrating the Chinese New Year. An
estimated 300,000 Communists were massacred by the army in immediate
and later reprisals in Indonesia after an attempted overthrow of the
government in 1965.
(SFEC, 2/1/98, p.A23)(SFC, 2/5/98, p.A14)(HNQ,
5/21/98)(MC, 10/20/01)
1965 Oct 21, The Orlando Sentinel
announced that Disney is coming to Orlando, Florida. Disney World
property, 27,000 acres, was purchased by Disney for $5 million.
(Hem, Mar. 95, p.28)
1965 Oct 22, Paul Tillich,
German-US Theologian (Courage To Be), died.
(MC, 10/22/01)
1965 Oct 26, Beatles received MBEs
at Buckingham Palace.
(MC, 10/26/01)
1965 Oct 28, The Gateway Arch
(630' (190m) high), designed by Eero Saarinen, was completed in St
Louis, Missouri.
(http://archanniversary.com/)
1965 Oct 28, Pope Paul VI issued a
decree, Nostra Aetate, absolving Jews of collective guilt for the
crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
(AP, 10/28/99)(SFC, 3/11/06, p.B10)
1965 Oct 29, Mehdi Ben Barka
(b.1920), Moroccan opposition leader, was kidnapped in Paris and never
seen again.
(SFC, 4/13/01,
p.A14)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehdi_Ben_Barka)(AP, 11/17/07)
1965 Oct 30, A fireworks
explosions killed 50 in Cartagena, Colombia.
(MC, 10/30/01)
1965 Oct, In Britain child
serial killers Myra Hindley (d.2002) and her boyfriend, Ian Brady (the
Moors Murderers), were caught. [see 1966]
(AP, 11/16/02)
1965 Nov 1, In Cairo, Egypt,
a trackless trolley plunged into Nile River drowning 74.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1965 Nov 7, Friedrich Wildgans
(52), composer, died.
(MC, 11/7/01)
1965 Nov 8, "Days of Our Lives"
premiered on NBC TV.
(AP, 11/8/05)
1965 Nov 8, The US Higher
Education Act became law. It was intended to strengthen the educational
resources of US colleges and universities and to provide financial
assistance to students in postsecondary and higher education. The
student loan system was part of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society program.
(www.higher-ed.org/resources/HEA.htm)(Econ, 8/4/07,
p.28)
1965 Nov 9, A major power failure
hit the East Coast of the US. New York City experienced a major
blackout just after 5:30 PM. In the great Northeast blackout several US
states and parts of Canada were hit by a series of power failures
lasting up to 13 1/2 hours. Nine Northeastern states and parts of
Canada went dark in the worst power failure in history, when a switch
at a station near Niagara Falls failed.
(HFA, '96,p.42)(SFE,10/1/95, Z1, p.10)(AP,
11/9/97)(HN, 11/9/98)
1965 Nov 9, Roger Allen LaPorte a
22 year old former seminarian and a member of the Catholic worker
movement, immolated himself at the United Nations in New York City in
protest of the Vietnam War.
(HN, 11/9/98)
1965 Nov 11, Rhodesia (later
Zimbabwe) under PM Ian D. Smith (d.2007) proclaimed its independence
from Britain.
(AP, 11/11/97)(SFC, 11/23/07, p.B14)
1965 Nov 12, Ferdinand Marcos was
elected president of Philippines.
(MC, 11/12/01)
1965 Nov 13, Director Kenneth
Tynan said "Fuck" on BBC.
(MC, 11/13/01)
1965 Nov 13, The ship "Yarmouth
Castle" burned and sank off Bahamas, killing 89.
(MC, 11/13/01)
1965 Nov 14, US government sent
90,000 soldiers to Vietnam.
(MC, 11/14/01)
1965 Nov 14, Bruce Crandall (32)
flew through a gantlet of enemy fire, taking ammunition in and wounded
Americans out of the Battle at Ia Drang Valley, one of the fiercest
battles of the Vietnam War. Crandall's actions were depicted in the
Hollywood movie "We Were Soldiers," adapted from the book "We Were
Soldiers Once ... And Young." In 2007 he was awarded a Medal of Honor.
(AP, 2/26/07)
1965 Nov 15, In the second day of
combat, regiments of the 1st Cavalry Division battle on Landing Zones
X-Ray against North Vietnamese forces in the Ia Drang Valley, South
Vietnam.
(WSJ, 10/5/98, p.A21)(HN, 11/15/99)
1965 Nov 16, Walt Disney launched
Epcot Center: Prototype Community of Tomorrow in Florida. Epcot opened
in 1982.
(MC, 11/16/01)
1965 Nov 16, In the last day of
the fighting at Landing Zone X-Ray, regiments of the U.S. 1st Cavalry
Division repulsed NVA forces in the Ia Drang Valley. Joe Galloway
served at LZ X-ray. He later received the Bronze Star for his actions
during the epic battle. Based on that and his subsequent actions in
Vietnam, Galloway came to be regarded by the military leadership and
the GIs alike as a journalist who was fair, objective, and who could be
trusted to get the story right. He co-authored with Lt. Gen. Hal More
"We Were Soldiers Once...Any Young."
(HN, 11/16/99)(HNQ, 10/2/02)
1965 Nov 17, The NVA ambushed
American troops of the 7th Cavalry at Landing Zone Albany in the Ia
Drang Valley, almost wiping them out. Some 500 US troops from Landing
Zone X-Ray encountered some 500 North Vietnamese troops at L-Z Albany
and more soldiers were killed than in the previous 3 days of fighting.
Among the wounded was Jack Smith (d.2004), son of TV commentator Howard
K. Smith. Jack Smith went on to become an ABC New correspondent.
(HN, 11/17/00)(SSFC, 4/18/04, p.E1)
1965 Nov 17, General Meeting of UN
refused admittance of China.
(MC, 11/17/01)
1965 Nov 18, Henry A. Wallace
(77), VP (1941-45) and founder (Progressive Party), died.
(MC, 11/18/01)
1965 Nov 20, UN Security council
called for a boycott of Rhodesia (later Zimbabwe).
(MC, 11/20/01)
1965 Nov 22, The musical "Man of
La Mancha" opened in New York City. Joe Darion (d.2001 at 90) wrote the
lyrics for "The Impossible Dream" and Mitch Leigh wrote the score.
(AP, 11/22/97)(SFC, 6/22/01, p.D4)
1965 Nov 24, Congo had a military
coup under Gen. Mobutu and Pres. Kasavubu was overthrown. Larry Devlin,
US CIA station chief, had encouraged Mobutu to launch the coup. In 2007
Devlin authored “Chief of Station, Congo: Fighting the Cold War in a
Hot Zone.”
(www.briefbio.com/pages/2974/Seko-Mobutu-Sese.html)(Econ, 2/24/07, p.95)
1965 Nov 26, Arlo Guthrie (17) was
arrested in Stockbridge, Mass., for dumping some trash following a
Thanksgiving feast at a restaurant run by Alice Brock. He wrote a song
about the event that became a folk classic and was turned into a movie
in 1969.
(WSJ, 11/22/06, p.A1)
1965 Nov 26, France launched its
first satellite, sending a 92-pound capsule into orbit.
(AP, 11/26/97)
1965 Nov 27, 15-25,000
demonstrated in Wash DC against the war in Vietnam.
(MC, 11/27/01)
1965 Nov, John Lindsay was elected
mayor of NYC. In 2001 Vincent J. Cannato authored "The Ungovernable
City," a look at Lindsay’s 8 years as mayor.
(WSJ, 7/5/01, p.A10)
1965 Nov, The 1st major
American battle of the Vietnam war using armored vehicles was at Ap Bau
Bang. The 1st Infantry Division engaged in its first major battle near
the village of Ap Bau Bang, along National Route 13--known as "Thunder
Road." General William E. DePuy later called it "one of the most
gallant stands of the Vietnam War."
(HNQ, 8/2/02)
1965 Nov, British-born Rick
Rescorla served as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry
when they made their fateful air assault into LZ Albany in the Ia Drang
Valley. He features prominently in Hal Moore’s and Joe Gallway’s
acclaimed book, "We Were Soldiers Once…And Young." He later helped save
thousands of people and died a hero’s death at the World Trade Towers
on September 11, 2001. As the security director for a major American
corporation, Rescorla was a hero of both attacks on the World Trade
Center. On 9-11 he managed to get all but a few of his company’s
thousands of employees out of the tower. He was last seen heading back
into the building with FDNY rescue crews when it collapsed.
(HNQ, 6/10/02)
1965 Nov, The British Indian Ocean
Territory (Biot) was created by detaching the Chagos island group from
Mauritius and other small islands from the Seychelles, then both
British colonies. Mauritius was given £3m in compensation; the
following year, Britain signed a military agreement with the US leasing
it the largest island, Diego Garcia, for 50 years.
(www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1636549,00.html)
1965 Nov, Yao Wenyuan (1931-2005),
one of China’s Gang of Four, published a piece titled “On the New
Historical Beijing Opera ‘Hai Rui Dismissed from Office.” It was a
10,000 word diatribe against the popular play.
(Econ, 1/14/06, p.84)
1965 Dec 1, An airlift of refugees
from Cuba to the United States began in which thousands of Cubans were
allowed to leave their homeland.
(AP, 12/1/97)
1965 Dec 1, South Africa
government said children of white fathers are white.
(MC, 12/1/01)
1965 Dec 3, Katarina Witt, figure
skater (Olympic-Gold-1984, 88), was born in Staaken, GDR.
(MC, 12/3/01)
1965 Dec 3, Beatles began their
final UK concert tour in Glasgow.
(MC, 12/3/01)
1965 Dec 3, The National Council
of Churches asked the U.S. to halt the massive bombings in North
Vietnam.
(HN, 12/3/98)
1965 Dec 4, The United States
launched Gemini 7 with Air Force Lt. Col. Frank Borman and Navy Comdr.
James A. Lovell aboard.
(AP, 12/4/97)
1965 Dec 5, Beat poets Michael
McClure and Allen Ginsberg gathered with Bob Dylan at the City Lights
bookstore in SF.
(SFC, 4/4/06, p.E1)
1965 Dec 5, Several dozen
activists gathered in central Moscow to demand that the trial of two
Soviet writers charged with anti-Soviet activity in their
yet-unpublished writings, Andrei Sinyavsky (d.1997) and Yuliy Daniel,
be open. They were tried in 1966 and sentenced to 6 years in prison for
publishing anti-Soviet works. The rally, which was quickly dispersed,
was later regarded as the first pro-democracy demonstration in the
Soviet Union's history.
(SFC, 2/26/97, p.A16)(WSJ, 2/26/97, p.A1)(AP,
12/06/05)
1965 Dec 8, Abe Burrows' "Cactus
Flower," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 12/8/01)
1965 Dec 9, "A Charlie Brown
Christmas," premiered.
(MC, 12/9/01)
1965 Dec 9, Nikolai V. Podgorny
replaced Anastas I. Mikoyan as president of the Presidium of the
Supreme Soviet.
(AP, 12/9/97)
1965 Dec 11, Sam Cooke (b.1931),
pop singer, was shot to death by a motel manager in Los Angeles after a
prostitute stole his clothes and money. His hits included “You Send
Me,” “Cupid,” and “Chain Gang.” In 2005 Peter Guralnick authored
“Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke.”
(SSFC, 10/16/05,
p.M3)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Cooke)
1965 Dec 15, The U.S. dropped 12
tons of bombs on an industrial center near Haiphong.
(HN, 12/15/98)
1965 Dec 15, Two U.S. manned
spacecraft, Gemini 6 and Gemini 7, maneuvered to within 10 feet of each
other while in orbit.
(AP, 12/15/97)
1965 Dec 15, In Karachi, Pakistan,
a cyclone killed some 10,000 people.
(www.emergency-management.net/cyclone.htm)
1965 Dec 16, Somerset Maugham
(91), author, died. His books included “The Moon and Sixpence” (1919),
a novel whose main character is based on Paul Gauguin. In 2004 Jeffrey
Meyers authored "Somerset Maugham: A Life."
(SSFC, 2/29/04, p.M3)(Econ, 3/6/04, p.75)
1965 Dec 16, Taufa’ahau Tupou IV
(1918-2006) became king of Tonga following the death of his mother
Queen Salote Tupou III.
(SSFC, 6/16/02,
p.A18)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taufa'ahau_Tupou_IV)
1965 Dec 17, Ending an election
campaign marked by bitterness and violence, Ferdinand Marcos was
declared president of the Philippines.
(HN, 12/17/98)
1965 Dec 18, Kenneth LeBel jumped
17 barrels on ice skates.
(MC, 12/18/01)
1965 Dec 18, U.S. Marines attacked
VC units in the Que Son Valley, South Vietnam, during Operation Harvest
Moon.
(HN, 12/18/98)
1965 Dec 18, The Borman and Lovell
splash down in the Atlantic ended a 2 week Gemini VII mission.
(MC, 12/18/01)
1965 Dec 19, French president De
Gaulle was re-elected. Mitterrand got 45% of the vote.
(MC, 12/19/01)
1965 Dec 20, In the largest U.S.
drug bust to date, 209 lb. of heroin was seized in Georgia.
(HN, 12/20/98)
1965 Dec 21, Four pacifists were
indicted in New York for burning draft cards.
(HN, 12/21/98)
1965 Dec 22, The EF-105F Wild
Weasel made its first kill over Vietnam.
(HN, 12/22/98)
1965 Dec 24, US troops in Vietnam
reached 184,300.
(SSFC, 6/9/02, p.F5)
1965 Dec 25, Entertainer Chris
Noel gave her first performance for the USO at two hospitals in
California.
(HN, 12/25/98)
1965 Dec 25, Sherman Poppen
invented the "Snurfer," the first snowboard by screwing together two
pairs of children’s skis.
(Hem., 12/96, p.82)
1965 Dec 26, "Funny Girl" with
Barbra Streisand closed on Broadway.
(MC, 12/26/01)
1965 Dec 28, U.S. barred oil sales
to Rhodesia (later Zimbabwe).
(HN, 12/28/98)
1965 Dec 29, "Thunderball"
premiered in US.
(MC, 12/29/01)
1965 Dec 29, A Christmas truce was
observed in Vietnam, while President Johnson tried to get the North
Vietnamese to the bargaining table.
(HN, 12/29/98)
1965 Dec 30, Ferdinand E. Marcos
was sworn in as the Philippine Republic's sixth president.
(SFC, 8/23/96, p.A26)(HN, 12/30/98)
1965 Dec 31, California became the
largest state in population.
(HN, 12/31/98)
1965 Salvador Dali donated a
sketch depicting Jesus Christ to the prison at Riker's Island, NYC, in
lieu of a planned visit. On Mar 1, 2003, 4 prison officials staged a
fake fire drill, stole the sketch and replaced it with a fake. The
guards were caught by June and claimed the original was destroyed.
(SFC, 10/6/03, p.A2)
1965 Richard Diebenkorn painted
his "Cityscape."
(SFC, 10/9/97, p.E1)
1965 Willem de Kooning
(1904-1997), abstract artist, painted "Nude."
(SFC, 3/20/97, p.A6)
1965 Robert Motherwell
(1915-1991), painter of the New York School, made his "Lyric
Suite."
(SFEC, 3/16/97, BR p.8)
c1965 Sigmar Polke, German artist,
created his work "Potato Heads: Nixon and Khrushchev."
(WSJ, 4/7/99, p.A20)
1965 Pop art gave way to Op art.
(TMC, 1994, p.1965)
1965 William Alfred wrote his play
"Hogan's Goat."
(SFEC, 5/30/99, DB p.37)
1965 New Directions published
"Eugenio Montale: Selected Poems." Montale (1896-1981), an Italian poet
writer and translator, won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1975.
(SFEC, 2/28/99, BR p.8)
1965 Sam Shepard wrote his play
"Chicago."
(WSJ, 11/8/96, p.A12)
1965 The play "The Effect of Gamma
Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds," written by Paul Zindel (d.2003),
was 1st produced at the Alley Theater in Houston. It opened off
Broadway in 1970 and was made into a film in 1972.
(SFC, 4/1/03, p.A16)
1965 Ian Barbour, physicist,
published "Issues in Science and Religion."
(SFC, 3/11/99, p.A2)
1965 Raymond Dasmann (d.2002 at
83) authored "The Destruction of California." He later authored
"Wildlife Biology" (1981) and "Environmental Conservation" (1984). In
2002 he authored "’The Autobiography of a Conservationist."
(SFC, 11/7/02, p.A26)
1965 Paul De Kruif authored
Microbe Hunters.
(ON, 3/03, p.9)
1965 C.P. Snow authored "The Two
Cultures," on the chasm between the arts and sciences.
(SFEM, 7/30/00, p.9)
1965 Rev. Edward Flannery (d.1998
at 86) of Providence, R.I., published "The Anguish of the Jews:
Twenty-three Centuries of Anti-Semitism.
(SFC, 10/23/98, p.D7)
1965 Stanford Prof. Gerald Gunther
(d.2002 at 75) authored the textbook "Constitutional Law." It became a
gold standard on the subject.
(SFC, 8/2/02, p.A27)
1965 Leslie Halliwell, British
movie maven, published "The Filmgoer’s Companion," a rudimentary Who’s
Who for films.
(SFC, 9/13/00, p.C1)
1965 Richard Hofstadter authored
“The Paranoid Style in American Politics: An Other Essays.” These
essays deal with the conditions that have given rise to the extreme
right of the 1950s and the 1960s, and the origins of certain
characteristic problems of the earlier modern era when the American
mind was beginning to respond to the facts of industrialism and world
power.
(WSJ, 2/2/08,
p.W8)(www.powells.com/biblio/9780674654617)
1965 F. Clark Howell (1925-2007),
UC anthropologist, authored “Early Man,” as part of the Time-Life
science series.
(SFC, 3/14/07, p.B7)
1965 "The Animal Family" by
Randall Jarrell was published. It was illustrated by Maurice Sendak.
(SFEC, 2/27/00, BR p.12)
1965 Consumer advocate Ralph Nader
published "Unsafe At Any Speed," a book criticizing the auto industry
for knowingly producing unsafe cars and not installing proper safety
devices. It specifically attacked the Chevrolet Corvair.
(WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl)(SFEC, 10/13/96, Z1 p.3)
1965 Mancur Olson (d.1998 at 66),
economist, published "The Logic of Collective Action," based on his
doctoral thesis. He asked how interest groups were created. His reply
was that people joined interest groups when the returns exceeded the
cost. He showed how groups organized around a narrow interest affected
laws and policies. His 1982 work "The Rise and Decline of Nations"
extended his ideas to countries. In 2000 his last work "Power and
Prosperity" was published. It sought to identify the incentives that
spur producers, consumers and holders of political power.
(FT, 3/4/98, p.7)(WSJ, 2/16/00, p.A14)
1965 Elizabeth Taylor wrote her
biography "Elizabeth Taylor."
(SFC, 8/28/96, E10)
1965 "The Killing of Sister
George" by Frank Marcus (1928-1996) was first staged in England. It
described a decaying lesbian relationship
(SFC, 8/8/96, p.A22)
1965 Czech author Bohumil Hrabal
(1915-1997) wrote "Closely Watched Trains." In the 1980s he wrote "I
Served the King of England."
(SFC, 2/4/97, p.A16)
1965 James Michener (d.1997 at 90)
wrote his novel "The Source."
(SFC,10/17/97, p.A17)
1965 J.D. Salinger published his
novella "Hapworth 16, 1924" in the New Yorker. It came out in book form
in 1997.
(xx, xxx)
1965 The musical "Anya" was
written by George Forrest and Robert Wright.
(SFC, 10/13/99, p.C2)
1965 Harold Fielding (d.2003 at
86) produced "Charlie Girl" in London. It ran for over 5 years.
(SFC, 10/4/03, p.A18)
1965 The musical Don Quixote
opened on Broadway and ran for 5 years with Richard Kiley (d.1999 at
76) as the "Man of La Mancha."
(SFC, 3/6/99, p.A21)
1965 Charlton Heston took over as
president of the Screen Actors Guild. He held the position until a
liberal revolt in 1971.
(WSJ, 9/2/06, p.P9)
1965 Bill Cosby starred in the "I
Spy" TV show. It ran to 1968.
(SFEC, 1/12/97, p.C10)(SFEC, 5/24/98, DB p.39)
1965 The first animated Peanuts TV
Special was broadcast on CBS.
(SFC, 12/15/99, p.E1)
1965 The TV series Wild, Wild West
began and ran to 1970. Government agents Jim West and Artemus Gordon
tracked Arliss Loveless, who sought to assassinate Pres. Grant.
(SFEC, 6/27/99, BR p.45)
1965 Louis Armstrong sang "Hello
Dolly." The song was written by Jerry Herman for the remake of the
Thornton Wilder play "Matchmaker." The name of the play was changed to
"Hello, Dolly!" after the song became a hit before the play opened.
(SFEC, 12/1/96, BR p.1)
1965 Syd Barrett (1946-2006)
co-founded Pink Floyd with Roger Waters, Nick Mason and Rick Wright,
and wrote many of the band's early songs. Barrett became mentally
unstable from the pressures of drugs and fame and had to leave the band
in 1968, five years before Pink Floyd's most popular album, "Dark Side
of the Moon."
(AP, 7/11/06)
1965 James Brown (1928-2006), the
dynamic "Godfather of Soul," produced his classic song “I Got You (I
Feel Good),” later considered one of the all-time greatest in rock’s
cannon.
(SFC, 12/26/06, p.A7)
1965 The SF-based Beau Brummels
and lead singer Sal Valentino made a hit with “Laugh Laugh.”
(SFC, 2/22/06, p.E1)
1965 Sonny Bono and Cher had a hit
with their song "I Got You Babe."
(SFC, 1/7/98, p.E1)
1965 Bob Dylan (23) did a tour of
England that was chronicled in the film "Don’t Look Back" by D.A.
Pennebaker.
(SFEC, 2/8/98, p.D5)
1965 John Fogarty and his band,
the Golliwogs, had a hit with the song "Brown-Eyed Girl. Under
direction from Saul Zaentz of Fantasy Records they soon changed their
name to Creedence Clearwater Revival.
(SFEM, 3/23/97, p.28)
1965 Jerry Garcia and The Grateful
Dead began playing.
(SFC, 7/5/96, p.E4)
1965 Marvin Gaye sang "Ain’t That
Peculiar."
(SFC, 11/12/02, p.D1)
1965 Curtis Mayfield and the
Impressions had a hit with the song "People Get Ready."
(SFC, 12/28/99, p.C1)
1965 The Miracles sang "Tracks of
My Tears."
(SFC, 11/12/02, p.D1)
1965 Lou Reed co-founded the music
group Velvet Underground.
(SFEC, 1/26/97 Par, p.2)
1965 Pharoah Sanders, jazz
saxophonist, debuted his 1st album: “Pharoah’s First.”
(SFC, 4/19/06, p.E3)
1965 Frank Sinatra won a Grammy
award for his song, "It Was a Very Good Year."
(SFC, 5/16/98, p.E7)
1965 The Supremes sang "Stop! In
the Name Love," Back in My Arms Again," and "I Hear a Symphony."
(SFC, 11/12/02, p.D1)
1965 The Lynyrd Skynyrd rock and
roll band was formed. Their 1973 debut album included "Free Bird."
Their hit songs included "Sweet Home Alabama."
(SFEC, 8/17/97, DB p.69)(WSJ, 3/17/05, p.A1)
1965 Junior Walker & the All
Stars played "Shotgun."
(SFC, 11/12/02, p.D1)
1965 Stevie Wonder sang "Uptight
(Everything’s Alright)."
(SFC, 11/12/02, p.D1)
1965 Folk-rock edged in next to
Rock-n-roll.
(TMC, 1994, p.1965)
1965 Ray Repp made his
groundbreaking album: "Mass for Young Americans."
(WSJ, 9/16/96, p.B8)
1965 The Righteous Brothers
released their song: "You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling." It was produced
by Phil Spector.
(SFEC, 10/20/96, DB, p.65)(SFEC, 10/5/97, DB p.74)
1965 The Sir Douglas Quintet with
Doug Sahm had a hit with the song "She's About a Mover."
(SFC, 11/20/99, p.A22)
1965 Franz Waxman composed his
"Song of Terezin" for the Cincinnati May Festival. The choral song
cycle was written to poetry by children at the notorious Polish
concentration camp.
(WSJ, 3/5/99, p.W10)
1965 In Britain The Who made 3
consecutive hits with "I Can’t Explain," "Anyway Anyhow Anywhere," and
"My Generation." The group included bassist John Entwistle (d.2002),
drummer Keith Moon (d.1978), singer Roger Daltrey, and guitarist Pete
Townshend.
(SFC, 6/28/02, p.A2)
1965 The Kahala Hilton Hotel
opened on Oahu, Hawaii.
(WSJ, 9/18/96, Ad. Supl. p.16)
1965 In NYC the 1910 grand
Pennsylvania Station was torn down and replaced. Demolition had begun
in 1963.
(SFEC, 7/4/99, p.T4)
1965 NYC enacted its landmark
Preservation Act. Lawyer Albert Bard (1866-1963) was chief among the
preservation champions. The act was prompted by the demolition of the
original Pennsylvania Station, to make way for the construction of the
current Madison Square Garden, which was being relocated from 50th
Street and Eighth Avenue. In 2008 Anthony C. Wood authored “Preserving
New York,” and illustrated history of how the act came about.
(WSJ, 1/12/08, p.W8)(http://tinyurl.com/3afjyj)
1965 In Detroit, Mich., Dr.
Charles Wright began a private collection of African American cultural
artifacts that developed into the 1997 $38.4 million Museum of African
American History.
(SFEC, 2/23/96, p.T5)
1965 Ron Karenga founded US, a
black power movement in Southern California shortly after the Watts
riots. In 2003 Scot Brown authored "Fighting for US: Maulana Karenga,
the US Organization and Black Cultural Nationalism."
(SSFC, 8/3/03, p.M6)
1965 Bernard Rimland (1928-2006),
psychologist, founded “The Autism Society of America.” In 1964 he had
authored “Infantile Autism: The Syndrome and its Implications for a
Neural Theory of Behavior.” In 1967 he started what came to be called
the Autism Research Institute in San Diego.
(www.autism-society.org/site/PageServer?pagename=History)(SFC,
11/27/06, p.B6)
1965 In Canal Winchester, Ohio,
the Barbering Hall of Fame was established.
(WSJ, 7/30/99, p.A1)
1965 The Mod fashion was in and
skirts moved way up.
(TMC, 1994, p.1965)
1965 The Scopitone was a quick fad
that used jukebox machines to show music, video-like, short films.
(SFC, 10/14/96, p.A23)
1965 Sandy Koufax, baseball’s
Great Jewish Hope, pitched a perfect game. In 2002 Jane Leavy authored
"Sandy Koufax: A Lefty’s Legacy."
(WSJ, 10/22/02, p.A1)
1965 The International Swimming
Hall of Fame opened in Fort Lauderdale, Florida under the direction of
Buck Dawson.
(MT, Fall ‘96, p.9)
1965 Muhammad Ali scored victories
over Sonny Liston and Floyd Patterson. In 1998 David Remnick authored
"King of the World." Ali’s own autobiography was titled "The Greatest."
(WSJ, 10/21/98, p.A20)
1965 The PGA began its Tournament
Training and Qualifying Program as a sort of finishing school for
aspiring golf professionals. In 2000 David Gould authored "Q School
Confidential: Inside Golf's Cruelest Tournament."
(WSJ, 1/13/00, p.A20)
1965 Richard Feynman won Nobel
prize in Physics for his work in quantum electrodynamics.
(SFEC, 8/3/97, BR p.3)
1965 Mikhail Sholokhov (b.1905),
Russian novelist (And Quiet Flows the Don), won a Nobel Prize in
Literature.
(HN, 5/24/01)(MC, 5/24/02)
1965 Lyndon Johnson escalated the
war in Vietnam.
(TMC, 1994, p.1965)
1965 The US sustained bombing
mission known as "Rolling Thunder" was begun in Vietnam.
(SFC, 10/3/97, p.B14)
1965 Bobby Garwood, a marine
private motor pool driver, was reported to have gone over to the enemy
in Vietnam. He became hunted by Col. Tom McKenney who led a US assassin
team to track down deserters and POWs accused of working with the
Communists. Garwood maneuvered his release from a POW camp in 1979 and
underwent a military trial in 1980. His story is told by Monika
Jensen-Stevenson in the 1997 book: "Spite House: The Last Secret of the
War in Vietnam."
(SFEC, 7/6/97, BR p.9)
1965 John Paul Vann (d.972),
American military adviser, returned to Vietnam as a civilian adviser.
He had achieved outstanding tactical results in the field, but retired
from the Army. In 1963 Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann was the
adviser to the ARVN 7th Infantry Division, commanded by Colonel Huynh
Van Cao. Despite Vann’s success in the field, he alienated Cao and the
military-political rulers in Saigon. Reassigned to the Pentagon after
his advisory tour, Vann decided that his experience in Vietnam would
cost him further promotion, and he retired from the Army. After a stint
in the private sector, Vann returned to Vietnam in 1965 as a
pacification representative for the Agency of International Development
(AID). Vann eventually rose to the level of senior adviser for the
Central Highlands, a position that gave him authority over all U.S.
military forces in the region. The authority was equivalent to that of
a major general. As principal adviser for an ARVN general who commanded
158,000 troops in the region, he was one of the most influential
Americans in Vietnam, after the ambassador and the commanding general
of MACV.
(HNQ, 9/27/01)
1965 Medicare and Medicaid began
to provide health insurance for the elderly, poor and disabled.
(SFEC, 1/5/97, zone 1 p.5)
1965 The Supreme Court ruled in
Griswold vs. Connecticut to invalidate a state law prohibiting the use
of contraceptives. The court ruled that the government cannot regulate
a married couple's use of birth control.
(SFC, 1/22/98, p.A22)(NW, 6/30/03, p.44)
1965 The Federal Immigration Act
abolished quotas by national origin and allowed nearly 300,000
immigrants per year.
(SFEC, 9/20/98, Z1 p.6)
1965 Congress established the Land
and Water Conservation Fund. It was to receive $900 million a year from
federal oil and gas revenues for acquisition of sensitive lands and
wetlands, but the money was never dedicated for the intended purpose.
(SFC, 2/22/99, p.A21)
1965 The US National Endowment for
the Arts (NEA) was established. Its initial budget was $2.5 million. In
2000 Lynne Munson authored "Exhibitionism: Art in an Era of
Intolerance," which in part covered the history of the NEA. In 2001
Michael Brenson authored "Visionaries and Outcasts: The NEA, Congress,
and the Place of Visual Arts in America."
(SFC,12/9/97, p.A1)(WSJ, 12/13/00, p.A24)(SSFC,
3/25/01, BR p.5)
1965 Daniel Patrick Moynihan
(1927-2003), while employed under Pres. Kennedy at the Dept. of
Labor, authored a report that attributed problems among blacks to
the deterioration of the family structure. In this year 8% of children
were born to unmarried parents. By 2006 a third of all US children were
born to unmarried parents as well as nearly 70% of black children.
(SFC, 3/27/03, p.A15)(WSJ, 11/20/06, p.A1)
1965 The US $2 bill was
discontinued.
(SFC, 9/14/96, p.A4)
1965 A long term bear market began
in the US that lasted to 1982. The following bull market ran to 2000.
(Econ, 10/18/08, p.86)
1965 The United States replaced
silver-alloy quarters and dimes with coins of copper-and-nickel
composition. Non-silver half-dollars and dollar coins were introduced
in the U.S. in 1971.
(HNQ, 10/30/99)
1965 George P. Cressman
(1919-2008) was named head of the US National Weather Service. In 1966
he started expressing its forecasts in terms of probability.
(WSJ, 5/10/08, p.A8)
1965 LSD was restricted by the
government. [see Oct 1966]
(SFEC, 10/6/96, Par p.4)
1965 The US Navy lowered SeaLab II
was lowered off the coast of San Diego to see if divers could be
sustained on a helium-oxygen mix. Lawrence Jue (1915-2005), a
Chinese-American, was the principal of the project [see 1969].
(SFC, 3/29/02, p.A2)(SFC, 12/9/05, p.B5)
1965 A Navy dolphin named Tuffy
carried tools and messages to Sealab II divers off the coast of La
Jolla, Ca.
(SFC, 4/11/03, p.D1)
1965 Sam Giancana, a mob boss, was
jailed under US Attorney Edward Hanrahan.
(SFEC, 8/31/97, p.B5)
1965 California State Assemblyman
John Williamson (d.1998 at 85) authored the California Land
Conservation Act that offered tax breaks to farmers who agreed not to
sell their property for at least 10 years. In 1998 the Williamson Act
was amended to increase the farm preservation contracts from 10 to 30
years.
(SFC, 10/14/98, p.C3)
1965 Ken Kesey, author of
"Sometimes a Great Notion," and 13 pals, that included Neal Cassidy,
were arrested in La Honda for growing Marijuana.
(SFC, 5/24/97, p.A8)
1965 US Steel workers negotiated
the right to retire on a full pension after 30 years of service,
regardless of age.
(WSJ, 5/12/03, p.A6)
1965 Fred DeLuca, fresh out of
high school, founded Subway, a sandwich shop, with $1,000 start-up
money from a family friend. By 2007 it was the world’s largest sandwich
chain with over 25,000 stores in 83 countries.
(WSJ, 1/10/07, p.C2)
1965 International Harvester
introduced its turbocharged Farmall 1206 tractor.
(WSJ, 1/3/07, p.A1)
1965 Carroll Shelby began
producing the Shelby 427 Cobra. It was a 2-seater with a race-car body
designed in Britain and an 8-cylinder, 500 horsepower engine from Ford.
(WSJ, 3/28/97, p.B1)
1965 In San Francisco the 16-story
building at 450 Sansome St. was built with a design by architect
Richard Hadley.
(SSFC, 4/26/09, p.B3)
1965 Fritz Maytag saved the Anchor
Brewing Co. in San Francisco when he returned it to traditional brewing
methods.
(SFC, 8/7/96, p.B1)
1965 The Pepsi-Cola Co. changed
its name to PepsiCo.
(SFC, 2/18/98, p.B2)
1965 The Philip Morris Tobacco Co.
began using ammonia compounds to make smoke less acidic and provide a
stronger dose of nicotine.
(SFC, 2/9/98, p.A2)
1965 A 7-Eleven manager happened
upon an Icee machine in a rival's store. He saw potential and got them
into three 7-Eleven stores. Slurpee was born in Kansas at a Dairy Queen
where owner Omar Knedlik served semi-frozen bottled soft drinks. When
they were a hit, he worked with a Dallas company to develop the "Icee"
machine that replicated that consistency in slushy soft drinks served
at 28 degrees.
(USAT, 7/11/05)
1965 Time Magazine entered the
fledgling cable TV business.
(WSJ, 1/11/00, p.B1)
1965 Helen Gurley Brown, author of
“Sex and the Single Girl” (1963), took over the running of Cosmopolitan
magazine.
(SFC, 8/19/05, p.E9)
1965 David Lett (d.2008 at 69)
began Eyrie Vineyards in the Dundee Hills of Oregon with some 3,000
baby vines of the Pinot Noir grape. His 1975 vintage ranked among the
top 10 at a prestigious Paris tasting in 1979.
(SSFC, 10/12/08, p.B6)
1965 In this year 30 chiefs from
big [US] companies were paid 44 times more than the average American
employee. In 1995 the multiple was 212.
(WSJ, 5/13/96, p.B-1)
1965 Oil companies began eyeing
the Grand Banks of Canada when seismic surveys revealed oil potential.
(SFC, 9/2/96, p.D5)
1965 A Univ. of Florida professor
invented Gatorade. The drink earned him and his school millions in
royalties.
(WSJ, 8/27/96, p.C1)
1965 Kevlar was invented by
Stephanie Kwolek, a chemist for DuPont, while experimenting with
polymers for new ways to reinforce car tires. In 1970 Herbert Blades of
DuPont developed a process for mass production. Marketing began in 1971.
(SFC, 4/7/03, p.E2)
1965 Martin Seligman,
psychologist, conducted experiments with dogs subjected to electric
shock and found that they “learned helplessness” when unable to escape
shocks.
(Econ, 3/31/07, p.63)
1965 The Big Bang Theory of the
Universe was announced.
(TMC, 1994, p.1965)
1965 At California’s
Berkeley Univ. campus, engineering professor Lotfi Zadeh introduced the
ideas of Fuzzy Logic.
(Hem, Dec. 94, p.102)
1965 In Berkeley, Ca., a groups of
native plant enthusiasts banded together to save a Berkeley native
plant botanic garden from being sacrificed for development. This gave
birth to the California Native Plant Society (CNPS), dedicated to the
preservation and enjoyment of native plants.
(www.ebcnps.org/)
1965 Bethlehem Steel built the
Bradley, a carrier escort ship. This was its last ship that Bethlehem
built at SF Pier 70 facility. During the 1960s 57 sections of
underwater steel tubes for BART were created at the shipyards.
(SSFC, 9/14/08, p.A11)
1965 The astronaut, Ed White, took
a walk in space.
(TMC, 1994, p.1965)
1965 There were just 587,000
visitors to Hawaii.
(WSJ, 9/18/96, Ad. Supl. p.16)
1965 Prof. Kenneth Norris
(1924-1998) helped create the UC Natural Reserve System (NRS). In 1998
the system encompassed 120,000 acres of protected habitat across
California.
(SFC, 8/31/98, p.A22)
1965 Milton Avery (b.1893),
artist, died. His work was collected by Roy Neuberger, founder of the
Neuberger Museum of Art in Purchase, N.Y.
(WSJ, 7/13/99, p.A20)
1965 Clara Bow, silent film star,
died. David Stenn later authored "Clara Bow: Runnin’ Wild."
(SFC, 6/21/02, p.D6)
1965 Dickey Chalelle, Female
correspondent and photographer, died in Vietnam.
(WSJ, 12/15/98, p.A20)
1965 Henry Cowell (b.1897),
pianist and composer, died. He originated the term "tone cluster" to
denote a contiguous group of notes played at once. His work included a
Piano Concerto, "The Aeolian Harp," and "The Banshee."
(SFEC, 1/26/97 DB, p.33)
1965 Dorothy Dandridge (41),
actress, died of a prescription drug overdose. Earl Mills later
authored "Dorothy Dandridge: S Portrait in Black," and Donald Bogle
wrote "Dorothy Dandridge: A Biography." A 1999 HBO biopic was based on
the Mills book.
(SFEC, 8/15/99, DB p.44)
1965 Gertrude Hurler (b.1889),
Austrian pediatrician, died. In 1919 she described the autosomal
recessive disease (MPS) that results from deficiency of
alpha-l-iduronidase, which leads to severe mental retardation with a
typical "gargoyle" facial appearance (Hurler's Syndrome). Major Charles
H. Hunter, Canadian Army Medical Corps, 1st described it in 1917.
(WSJ, 7/8/03, p.A8)(www.medcyclopaedia)
1965 Shirley Jackson, writer and
author of horror fiction, died. Her work included "The Haunting of Hill
House" and "The Lottery." In 1997 a collection of short fiction was
published titled "Just an Ordinary Day."
(SFEM, 1/12/97, BR p.3)
1965 Randall Jarrell (b.1914),
author, critic and translator, died after being hit by a car while
walking on a country road. In 1999 Brad Leithauser edited his selected
essays: "No Other Book: Selected Essays by Randall Jarrell." Mary von
Schrader Jarrell, Randall's wife, authored "Remembering Jarrell."
Jarrell's work included the academic novel "Pictures From an
Institution."
(WSJ, 6/29/99, p.A12)
1965 Charles E. Jeanneret
(b.1887), aka Le Corbusier, Swiss-born French architect and city
planner, died. He and Amedee Ozenfant had authored the modernist
manifesto "After Cubism."
(HN, 10/6/00)(V.D.-H.K.p.363)
1965 Carr Jones (b.1885), SF Bay
Area architect, died. His work was rooted in the 19th century Arts and
Crafts tradition.
(SFC, 9/13/03, p.E1)
1965 John Kelly Jr. (41), Bell
Labs researcher, died in NYC. His Kelly System, reduced to 2 axioms,
instructed how to distribute wagers among different stocks and how big
wagers should be relative to a bankroll. In 2005 William Poundstone
authored “Fortune’s Formula,” the story of the Kelly System.
(WSJ, 9/16/05, p.W8)
1965 William Pitsenbarger, an Air
Force Pararescue man, died. He volunteered to descend from a helicopter
to the jungle floor to help a company of the 1st Infantry Division that
was pinned down and fighting for its life. He rescued many wounded
soldiers, and he refused evacuation himself after he was wounded
several times, finally fatally. He was awarded a posthumous Air Force
Cross, but the men of the company he went to help fought for many years
to get the award upgraded to the Medal of Honor. Pitsenbarger was one
of only two Air Force enlisted men to earn the Medal of Honor in
Vietnam, and the first since the end of World War II.
(HNQ, 6/18/02)
1965 Dawn Powell (b.1896),
Ohio-born American comic novelist, died. Her work anatomized and
skewered New York and included her autobiographical novel "My Home Is
Far Away." In 1998 Tim page authored: "Dawn Powell: A Biography." In
1995 Page published an abridged edition of her diaries.
(WSJ, 10/19/98, p.A24)(SFEC, 2/14/99, BR p.5)
1965 Jack Spicer (40), poet, died
of alcohol poisoning. The "Collected Book of Jack Spicer" was published
nearly 10 years after his death. In 1998 Lewis Ellingham and Kevin
Killian published "Poet Be Like God: Jack Spicer and the San Francisco
Renaissance. "The House That Jack Built : the Collected Lectures of
Jack Spicer was also published in 1998 with an afterward by Peter
Gizzi.
(SFEC, 1/3/99, BR p.3)
1965 Henry A. Wallace (b.1888),
former vice-president (1941-1945), died. He was the founder of Pioneer
Hi-Bred Corp. and served as the Sec. of Agriculture from 1933-1940. In
2000 John C. Culver and John Hyde authored the biography "American
Dreamer."
(WSJ, 4/5/00, p.A24)(WUD, 1994 p.1606)
1965 Arab states signed the
Charter of Arab Honor, an Arab league ordnance designed to curb an
aggressive Lebanese press and to discourage mutually hostile regimes
from attacking each other.
(SFC, 6/19/00, p.A5)
1965 In Britain Bob Guccione
founded Penthouse Magazine. It was a sex magazine with more provocative
poses than Playboy Magazine.
(WSJ, 3/22/96, p.A-1)
1965 The first automatic teller
machines came from England.
(SFC, 7/6/96, p.E4)
1965 Imre Lakatos of London's
School of Economics organized a session chaired by Karl Popper at which
philosopher Thomas Kuhn spoke. In 2003 Steve Fuller authored "Kuhn vs.
Popper: The Struggle for the Soul of Science."
(Econ, 8/9/03, p.71)
1965 In the Central African
Republic Col. Jean-Bedel Bokassa, commander of the army and minister of
defense, was picked by France to overthrow David Dacko when Dacko began
establishing close ties with China.
(SFC, 11/4/96, p.A22)
1965 The Gang of Four included
Wang Hongwen, Yao Wen-yuan, Zhang Chunqiao (1917-2005) and Mao Zedong’s
third wife, Jiang Qing. All four were relatively low-ranking members of
the Communist party, albeit favored by Mao. Beginning around 1965, they
were able to manipulate the media and youth to leverage their positions
over party moderates, such as Deng Xiaoping. Mao’s death in 1976 ended
their influence and led to their imprisonment and trial in 1980-81 for
their role in the Cultural Revolution.
(HNQ, 6/6/01)(SFC, 5/11/05, p.B7)
1965 China began the construction
of a subway system in Beijing. The first line of 17 miles began regular
service in 1981. By 2008 the subway network boasted 8 lines over 120
miles.
(WSJ, 1/6/09, p.A10)
1965 In China the local government
of Pingyang, near the southern provincial capital of Nanning, built a
smelting factory for lead and antimony. For decades the waste was
discarded in piles near farmland, where rains washed the metals into
fields and ponds used to water crops. Villagers later tested for
extremely high levels of lead, cadmium and other metals. The factory
was torn down in 2004.
(WSJ, 6/30/07, p.A12)
1965 Chinese military researchers
isolated artemisinin, a compound based on sweet wormwood, and found to
be very effective against malaria.
(SFC, 5/10/04, p.A5)(Econ, 11/20/04, p.81)
1965 In Cuba Carlos Rafael
Rodriguez (d.1997 at 84), "El Tio," was a founding member of the Cuban
Communist Party. From 1962-1965 he was the head of the National
Institute of Agrarian Reform and became a deputy prime minister in
charge of foreign affairs in 1972.
(SFC,12/10/97, p.C5)
1965 Czechoslovakia adopted the
economic ideas of Ota Sik to improve on stagnant industrial growth. His
“new economic model” called for limited reforms of the Soviet system
including less central planning.
(SFC, 8/25/04, p.B7)
1965 In the Dominican Republic
Jose Pena Gomez incited a popular uprising on radio and demanded the
restoration of Pres. Bosch. Leftists in the army revolted and Pres.
Lyndon Johnson sent in 23,000 US Marines to prevent a Cuban-style
revolution.
(SFC, 5/12/98, p.A21)
1965 In Egypt journalist Mustafa
Amin was arrested while meeting an American diplomat in Alexandria and
accused of being an American spy. He was later freed by Pres. Anwar
Sadat.
(SFC, 4/14/97, p.A19)
1965 Former King Farouk of Egypt
died at a restaurant in Rome. The obese monarch was notorious for his
decadent lifestyle. The David Freeman novel "One of Us" is based on his
life and times.
(SFEC,11/9/97, Par p.2)
1965 In France IBM established a
large manufacturing plant in Montpellier.
(WSJ, 1/11/98, p.R23)
1965 Werner Tubke, German artist,
created his painting “Reminiscences of Schulze, JD III.”
(WSJ, 2/10/09, p.D7)
1965 India and Pakistan began a
second war over Kashmir.
(WSJ, 6/11/96, p.A12)(SFEC, 8/3/97, p.A15)
1965 The 1983 film “The Year of
Living Dangerously” with Mel Gibson was set in Indonesia’s 1965 civil
war. An estimated 250-500 thousand Indonesians were killed on suspicion
of being Communist Party members or sympathizers. US CIA and Embassy
officials later admitted that they furnished as many as 5000 names of
“communist” leaders to the Indonesian army.
(WSJ, 8/17/95, p.A-1)(SFEC, 4/27/97, p.T6)(SFC,
5/16/00, p.A12,14)(SFC, 9/6/00, p.D2)
1965 Indonesia became the first
nation ever to withdraw from the United Nations. Indonesia withdrew in
protest of the seating of Malaysia on the UN Security Council. The
former Dutch colony bitterly opposed the formation of its neighbor
Malaysia in 1963, refusing to recognize it and waging a guerilla war
against it. In 1966 a peace agreement with Malaysia was reached and
shortly thereafter Indonesia resumed its membership in the UN.
(HNQ, 5/14/98)
1965 Teddy Kollek (1911-2007) was
elected as mayor of Jerusalem. He sought to bring Arabs into the Jewish
governed city as social and economic equals. In 1993 he was defeated in
a run for a 7th term by Ehud Olmert of the Likud Party.
(SFC, 10/18/96, C8)(SFC, 1/3/07, p.A2)
1965 Luciano Benetton was one of 4
family members who launched the Italian Benetton clothing group.
(Econ, 11/3/07, p.82)
1965 Ivory Coast, formerly French
West Africa, established independence.
(WUD, 1994, p.759)
1965 The government of Japan
signed a peace treaty with South Korea that covered reparation claims
of South Korean women used as sex slaves.
(Jap. Enc., BLDM, p. 216)(SFC, 4/22/98, p.A11)
1965 Japan’s PM Eisaku Sato told
US Defense Secretary Robert McNamara that American military forces
could launch a nuclear attack on China by sea if needed. This
information was not made public until 2008.
(AP, 12/21/08)
1965 Mexico’s Border
Industrialization Program (BIP) was first introduced. It led to the
construction of foreign-owned maquiladoras (assembly plants) to produce
goods for export.
(MT, summer 2003, p.22)
1965 Yasser Arafat formed his
Fatwah movement for the Liberation of Palestine.
(SFC, 9/8/03, p.A8)
1965 Peruvian author Mario Vargas
Llosa wrote his novel "The Green House."
(Civilization, July-Aug, 1995, p. 18)
1965 Rarotonga of the Cook Islands
was colonized by the British but ruled until this year by New Zealand.
(SFEC, 1/5/97, p.T6)
1965 Television arrive in Saudi
Arabia. It caused riots until senior clerics grasped that they could
use it to promote their faith.
(Econ, 1/7/06, Survey p.9)
1965 Hafez al-Assad became Syria's
defense minister. He was a member of the Alawite clan, an offshoot of
Shiite Islam. Nearly 80% of Syrians are Sunnis.
(WSJ, 1/9/96, p.A-1)
1965 The United Nations added 4
non-permanent seats to the Security Council, bringing the
non-permanent total to 10 and the whole to 15.
(http://tinyurl.com/yyxchl)
1965 The 21st Vatican Council,
begun in 1962 and later known as the Second Vatican Council (Vatican
II), ended. In 2008 John W. O’Malley authored “What Happened at Vatican
II.”
(WSJ, 12/26/08, p.A11)
1965 Nguyen Van Thieu, the South
Vietnam ruling junta's chairman of the National Directorate, became
chief of state.
(SFC, 10/1/01, p.B2)
1965 In Vietnam the Thuan Thanh
center was established for wounded soldiers. In 1997 it was but one of
57 veteran’s centers across the country.
(SFC, 10/3/97, p.B14)
1965 In Zaire Laurent-Desiree
Kabila, Marxist revolutionary, fought with Ernesto "Che" Guevara on
behalf of the People’s Revolutionary Party.
(WSJ, 11/8/96, p.A10)
1965 In Zaire (later Congo) Army
Chief-of-Staff Mobutu Sese Seko, a member of the Gbandi tribe, seized
power in a military coup and began his dictatorship. His name meant
“the cock who goes from homestead to homestead leaving no hen
uncovered.”
(SFC, 10/28/96, p.A8)(SFC, 12/18/96, p.C2)(SFEC,
4/6/97, p.A16)(Econ, 12/18/04, p.61)
1965-1966 King Faisal bin Abd al-Aziz defied Islamist
opposition and introduced women’s education and television. There were
70 female university students in Saudi Arabia. In 2001 the number
reached 200,000, 54% of the student population.
(WSJ, 1/2/02, p.A1)(WSJ, 6/30/04, p.A7)
1965-1968 The 3rd Betty Crocker [General Mills
advertising icon] made her appearance.
(WSJ, 7/5/96, p.A6)
1965-1968 The Mamas and the Papas consisted of Dennis
Doherty, Michelle Phillips, John Phillips and Cass Elliot (d.1974).
Their songs over this period included "California Dreamin’" and "Monday
Monday."
(SFC, 1/14/98, p.D3)
1965-1969 Roberto Sanchez Vilella (1913-1997) became
the 2nd governor of Puerto Rico.
(SFC, 3/26/97, p.C3)
1965-1970 Cheryl Scott killed 4 of her children, aged
11 days to 14 months, during this period. 3 died in southern California
and the 4th in Mendocino County. In 2006 Cheryl Athene Miller was
charged in Ukiah, Ca., with the murders after her brother revealed the
secret they had kept for decades. In 2007 Miller was released for lack
of evidence.
(SFC, 11/2/06, p.B1)(SFC, 6/23/07, p.B6)
1965-1971 In the US "Hogan’s Heroes" ran for 168
episodes. Werner Klemperer (d.2000 at 80) played the role of Col. Klink.
(WSJ, 5/31/96, p.A8)(SFC, 12/8/00, p.D11)
1965-1972 Sir Martin Jones (d.1997 at 84) led M15,
the British counterintelligence agency. He had succeeded Sir Roger
Hollis.
(SFC, 3/17/97, p.A22)
1965-1973 General Bob Worley was the only U.S. Air
Force general officer to die in actual combat during the Vietnam War.
He was a tactical fighter pilot whose RF-4C Phantom caught fire while
on a patrol over North Vietnam.
(HNQ, 12/18/02)
1965-1973 Some 300,000 South Korean troops fought
alongside US forces in Vietnam. In 1998 South Korea expressed to Hanoi
its regret for its participation in the war.
(WSJ, 12/16/98, p.A1)
1965-1975 Solomon Barkin (d.2000), labor economist,
writer and professor, covered this period in his book "Worker Militancy
and Its Consequences." His work also included "The Decline of the labor
Movement and What Can Be Done About It."
(SFC, 4/8/00, p.A23)
1965-1979 In Indonesia Pramoedya Ananta Toer,
outspoken writer, was arrested and put into a labor camp on the island
of Buru. He was never charged with a crime.
(WSJ, 4/30/99, p.W9)
1965-1975 In Tajikistan the large aluminum smelting
plant at Tursunzadeh was built.
(WSJ, 7/2/98, p.A1)
1965-1981 In Bolivia military regimes ran the
country. Their human rights violations were documented in the 1993 book
"Never Again for Bolivia" by Jesuit author Federico Aguilo.
(SFC, 3/15/97, p.A11)
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