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1958_8
Section: September (2): September 1 – The first Cod War begins between the United Kingdom and Iceland. September 2 Hendrik Verwoerd becomes the 6th Prime Minister of South Africa. China's first television broadcasts start at Beijing Television Station, a predecessor of China Central Television.  September 4 – Jorge Ale...
1958_9
Section: October (2): October – GoldStar, predecessor of LG Electronics, is founded in South Korea. October 1 Tunisia and Morocco join the Arab League. The United Kingdom transfers sovereignty of Christmas Island from Singapore to Australia. NASA starts operations and replaces the NACA in the United States. October 2 –...
1958_10
Section: November (2): November 3 The new UNESCO building, World Heritage Centre, is inaugurated in Paris. Jorge Alessandri is sworn in as President of Chile. November 10 – Harry Winston donates the Hope Diamond to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. November 18 – En route to Rogers City, Michigan, United ...
1958_11
Section: December (2): December 1 Our Lady of the Angels School fire: 90 students and 3 nuns are killed in a fire in Chicago. Adolfo López Mateos takes office as President of Mexico. December 14 – The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first ever to reach the Southern Pole of Inaccessibility. December 15 – Art...
1959_0
1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1959th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 959th year of the 2nd millennium, the 59th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1950s decade.
1959_0
Section: January (2): January 1 – Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance. January 2 – Soviet lunar probe Luna 1 is the first human-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reaches the vicinity of Earth's Moon, where it was intended to crash-land, but instead becomes the...
1959_1
Section: February (2): February 2 – Nine ski hikers mysteriously perish in the northern Ural Mountains in the Dyatlov Pass incident and are all found dead a few weeks later. February 3 A chartered plane transporting musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper with pilot Roger Peterson goes down in foggy co...
1959_2
Section: March (2): March 1 The USS Tuscaloosa, USS New Orleans, USS Tennessee and USS West Virginia are stricken from the United States Naval Vessel Register. Archbishop Makarios returns to Cyprus from exile. March 3 – Lunar probe Pioneer 4 becomes the first American object to escape dominance by Earth's gravity. Marc...
1959_3
Section: April (2): April 6 – The 31st Academy Awards ceremony is held in Hollywood. Musical film Gigi receives a record 9 Oscars. April 8 – The Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) is established. April 9 – NASA announces its selection of seven military pilots to become the first U.S. astronauts, later known as the ...
1959_4
Section: May (2): May – In the United Kingdom: Import tariffs are lifted. The first Ten Tors event is held on Dartmoor. May 2 – 1959 FA Cup Final: Nottingham Forest defeats Luton Town 2–1 at Wembley Stadium. May 18 – The National Liberation Committee of Côte d'Ivoire is launched in Conakry, Guinea. May 21 – Gypsy: A Mu...
1959_5
Section: June (2): June 3 Singapore becomes a self-governing crown colony of Britain with Lee Kuan Yew as Prime Minister. Real Madrid beats Stade Reims 2–0 at Neckarstadion, Stuttgart and wins the 1958–59 European Cup (Association football). June 5 – A new government of the State of Singapore is sworn in by Sir William...
1959_6
Section: July (2): July 2 – Prince Albert of Belgium marries Italian Donna Paola Ruffo di Calabria. July 4 – With the admission of Alaska as the 49th U.S. state earlier in the year, the 49-star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia. July 7 – At 14:28 UT Venus occults the star Regulus. The rare event (which w...
1959_7
Section: August (2): August 4 – Martial law is declared in Laos. August 7 Explorer program: The United States launches Explorer 6 from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The Roseburg Blast in Oregon, caused when a truck carrying explosives catches fire, kills 14 and causes $12 million worth of damag...
1959_8
Section: September (2): September 14 – Soviet spacecraft Luna 2 becomes the first human-made object to crash on the Moon. September 15–28 – USSR Premier Nikita Khrushchev and his wife tour the United States, at the invitation of U.S. President Dwight David Eisenhower. September 16 – The Xerox 914, the first plain paper...
1959_9
Section: October (2): October 1 – The 10th anniversary of the People's Republic of China is celebrated with pomp across the country. October 7 – The Soviet probe Luna 3 sends back the first ever images of the far side of the Moon. October 12 – At the national Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana Congress in Peru, a...
1959_10
Section: November (2): November 1 – In Rwanda, Hutu politician Dominique Mbonyumutwa is beaten up by Tutsi forces, leading to a period of violence known as the wind of destruction. November 2 – At a ceremony near Toddington, British Minister of Transport Ernest Marples opens the first section of the M1 Motorway, betwee...
1959_11
Section: December (2): December 1 – Cold War: Antarctic Treaty – 12 countries, including the United States and the Soviet Union, sign a landmark treaty that sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent (the first arms control agreement established during the Cold War). Dece...
1960_0
1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1960th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 960th year of the 2nd millennium, the 60th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1960s decade.
1960_0
Section: January (2): January 1 – Cameroon becomes independent from France. January 9–11 – Aswan Dam construction begins in Egypt. January 10 – British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan makes the "Wind of Change" speech for the first time, to little publicity, in Accra, Gold Coast (modern-day Ghana). January 19 – A revis...
1960_1
Section: February (2): February 1 – Greensboro sit-ins: In Greensboro, North Carolina, four black students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University begin a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter. Although they are refused service, they are allowed to stay at the counter. The event trigg...
1960_2
Section: March (2): March 5 – Alberto Korda takes his iconic photograph of Che Guevara, Guerrillero Heroico, in Havana. March 6 Vietnam War: The United States announces that 3,500 American soldiers will be sent to Vietnam. The Canton of Geneva in Switzerland gives women the right to vote. March 17 Northwest Orient Airl...
1960_3
Section: April (2): April 1 Abdul Rahman of Negeri Sembilan, 1st Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia, dies in office. He is replaced by Hisamuddin Alam Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Alaeddin Sulaiman Shah, Sultan of Selangor. The United States launches the first weather satellite, TIROS-1. The 1960 United States Census begin...
1960_4
Section: May (2): May 1 The U-2 incident: Several Soviet surface-to-air missiles shoot down an American Lockheed U-2 spy plane. Its pilot, Francis Gary Powers of the Central Intelligence Agency, is captured. In India, this day is declared as 'Maharashtra Divas', i.e., Maharashtra Day (also celebrated as 'Kaamgaar Divas...
1960_5
Section: June (2): June 1 – New Zealand's first television station begins broadcasting, in the city of Auckland. June 5 – The Lake Bodom murders occur in Finland. June 9 – 1960 Pacific typhoon season: Typhoon Mary kills 1,600 people in China. June 10 – The "Hagerty Incident": As part of the ongoing Anpo protests in Jap...
1960_6
Section: July (2): July 1 Ghana becomes a republic, and Kwame Nkrumah becomes its first President. Cold War: A Soviet Air Force MiG-19 fighter plane flying north of Murmansk, Russia, over the Barents Sea, shoots down a six-man RB-47 Stratojet reconnaissance plane of the U.S. Air Force. Four of the U.S. Air Force office...
1960_7
Section: August (2): August 1 – Dahomey (modern-day Benin) becomes independent from France. August 3 – Niger becomes independent from France. August 5 – Upper Volta (modern-day Burkina Faso) becomes independent from France. August 6 – In the Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville) (later the Democratic Republic of the Con...
1960_8
Section: September (2): September 1 Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah, Sultan of Selangor and 2nd Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia, dies in office. He is replaced by Tuanku Syed Putra, Raja of Perlis. Disgruntled railroad workers effectively halt operations of the Pennsylvania Railroad in the United States, marking the firs...
1960_9
Section: October (2): October 1 – Nigeria becomes independent from the United Kingdom, and Nnamdi Azikiwe becomes its first native-born Governor General. October 3 – Jânio Quadros is elected President of Brazil, for a five-year term. October 7 – Nigeria becomes the 99th member of the United Nations. October 12 – Cold W...
1960_10
Section: November (2): November 8 – 1960 United States presidential election: In a close race, Democratic U. S. Senator John F. Kennedy is elected over Republican U. S. Vice President Richard Nixon, to become (at 43) the second youngest man to serve as President of the United States, and the youngest man elected to thi...
1960_11
Section: December (2): December – The African and Malagasy Organisation for Economic Cooperation (OAMCE – Organisation Africain et Malagache de Coopération Économique) is established. December 1 Patrice Lumumba, deposed premier of the Republic of the Congo, is arrested by the troops of Colonel Joseph Mobutu. A Soviet s...
1961_0
1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1961st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 961st year of the 2nd millennium, the 61st year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1960s decade.
1961_0
Section: January (2): January 1 – Monetary reform in the Soviet Union. January 3 United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba (Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). Aero Flight 311 (Koivulahti air disaster): Douglas D...
1961_1
Section: February (2): February 1 – The United States tests its first Minuteman I intercontinental ballistic missile. February 4 – The Portuguese Colonial War begins in Angola. February 5–9 – In Congo, President Joseph Kasa-Vubu names Joseph Iléo as the new Prime Minister. February 9 – The Beatles at The Cavern Club: L...
1961_2
Section: March (2): March–April – Drilling for Project Mohole is undertaken off the coast of Guadalupe Island, Mexico. March 1 – United States President John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps. March 3 – Hassan II is crowned King of Morocco. March 8 Max Conrad circumnavigates the earth by light plane in 8 days, 18 ...
1961_3
Section: April (2): April 5 – The New Guinea Council of Western Papua is installed. April 8 – British India Steam Navigation Company passenger ship MV Dara blows up and sinks off Dubai; 238 passengers and crew are killed. April 10 – South African golfer Gary Player becomes the first non-American to win the Masters Tour...
1961_4
Section: May (2): May 1 – National Airlines Flight 337, internal to Florida, is forced by an armed hijacker to fly to Cuba, the first of a spate of such aircraft hijackings. May 4 – U.S. Freedom Riders begin interstate bus rides, to test the new U.S. Supreme Court integration decision. May 5 – Mercury program: Alan She...
1961_5
Section: June (2): June 1 – Ethiopia experiences its most devastating earthquake of the 20th century, with a magnitude of 6.7. The town of Majete is destroyed, 45% of the houses in Karakore collapse, 17 kilometers (11 mi) of the main road north of Karakore are damaged by landslides and fissures, and 5,000 inhabitants i...
1961_6
Section: July (2): July 4 – Soviet submarine K-19 suffers a reactor leak in the North Atlantic. July 5 – The first Israeli rocket, Shavit 2, is launched. July 8 – A mine explosion in Czechoslovakia leaves 108 dead. July 12 A Czechoslovakian Ilyushin Il-18 crashes while attempting to land at Casablanca, Morocco, killing...
1961_7
Section: August (2): August – The United States founds the Alliance for Progress. August 1 – The Six Flags Over Texas theme park officially opens to the public. August 6 – Vostok 2: Soviet cosmonaut Gherman Titov becomes the second human to orbit the Earth, and the first to be in outer space for more than one day. Augu...
1961_8
Section: September (2): September 1 The Eritrean War of Independence begins with the Battle of Adal in which Hamid Idris Awate and his companions shoot at Ethiopian police and military. The war will continue until 1991. The first meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement is held. The Soviet Union resumes nuclear testing, esc...
1961_9
Section: October (2): October 1 Unification Day (Cameroon): The formerly British Southern Cameroons gains independence from the United Kingdom by vote of the UN General Assembly and joins with formerly French Cameroun to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon. Baseball player Roger Maris of the New York Yankees hits his...
1961_10
Section: November (2): November 1 The Hungry generation Movement is launched in Calcutta, India. The U.S. Interstate Commerce Commission's federal order banning segregation at all interstate public facilities officially comes into effect. November 2 – Kean opens at Broadway Theater in New York City for 92 performances....
1962_0
1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1962nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 962nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 62nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1960s decade.
1962_0
Section: January (2): January 1 – Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand. January 3 – The office of Pope John XXIII announces the excommunication of Fidel Castro for preaching communism and interfering with Catholic churches in Cuba. January 8 – Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the worst Dutch rail disast...
1962_1
Section: February (2): February 3 – A United States embargo against Cuba is announced. February 4 – First successful winter ascent of the Matterhorn's north face, by Hilti von Allmen and Paul Etter, is completed. February 4–5 – During a new moon and solar eclipse, an extremely rare grand conjunction of the classical pl...
1962_2
Section: March (2): March–May – Yi–Ta incident: At least 60,000 Chinese citizens migrate from the People's Republic of China to the Soviet Union, predominantly (but not exclusively) ethnic Kazakhs. March 1 – In the United States: American Airlines Flight 1 (a Boeing 707) crashes on takeoff at New York International Air...
1962_3
Section: April (2): April 3 – Jawaharlal Nehru is elected de facto Prime Minister of India, for the fourth time. April 6 – Belgium reestablishes diplomatic relations with the Congo. April 7 – Milovan Đilas, author and former vice-president of Yugoslavia is re-arrested. April 8 – In France, the Évian Accords are adopted...
1962_4
Section: May (2): May 1 Norwich City F.C. wins the English Football League Cup, beating Rochdale in the final. Dayton Hudson Corporation opens the first of its Target discount stores, in Roseville, Minnesota. May 2 An OAS bomb explodes in Algeria; this and other attacks kill 110 and injure 147. S.L. Benfica beats Real ...
1962_5
Section: June (2): June – Rachel Carson's Silent Spring begins serialization in The New Yorker; it is released as a book on September 27 in the U.S., giving rise to the modern environmentalist movement. June 3 – Air France Flight 007 (a Boeing 707) crashes on take-off at Orly Airport in Paris; 130 of 132 people on boar...
1962_6
Section: July (2): July 1 Rwanda and Burundi gain full independence from Belgium. 1962 Algerian independence referendum in French Algeria: Supporters of Algerian independence win a 99% majority in a referendum. A heavy smog develops over London. The Helsinki Convention on Nordic Co-operation of March 23 comes into forc...
1962_7
Section: August (2): "Sherry" by the Four Seasons was released, their first number one hit! August 5 Death of Marilyn Monroe: Actress Marilyn Monroe is found dead aged 36 from an overdose of sleeping pills and chloral hydrate at her home in Brentwood, Los Angeles; it is officially ruled a "probable suicide" (the exact ...
1962_8
Section: September (2): September 1 A referendum in Singapore supports the Malayan Federation. Typhoon Wanda strikes Hong Kong, killing at least 130 and injuring more than 600. September 2 – The Soviet Union agrees to send arms to Cuba. September 8 – Newly independent Algeria, by referendum, adopts a constitution. Sept...
1962_9
Section: October (2): October 1 – In the United States: The first black student, James Meredith, registers at the University of Mississippi, escorted by Federal Marshals to protect him from official obstruction and violent segregationalist protest, the "Ole Miss riot of 1962". Johnny Carson takes over as permanent host...
1962_10
Section: November (2): November Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novella One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Russian: Оди́н день Ива́на Дени́совича, Odin den' Ivana Denisovicha), the author's pseudo-autobiographical account of life in the gulag, is published in Novy Mir, in an unprecedented acknowledgement of the Soviet Un...
1963_0
1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1963rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 963rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 63rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1960s decade.
1963_0
Section: January (2): January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cove River, Sydney, Australia. January 2 – Vietnam War – Battle of Ap Bac: The Viet Con...
1963_1
Section: February (2): February 5 – The European Court of Justice's ruling in Van Gend en Loos v Nederlandse Administratie der Belastingen establishes the principle of direct effect, one of the basic tenets of European Union law. February 8 – Travel, financial and commercial transactions by United States citizens to Cu...
1963_2
Section: March (2): March 4 – In Paris, six people are sentenced to death for conspiring to assassinate President Charles de Gaulle. De Gaulle pardons five, but the other conspirator, Jean Bastien-Thiry, is executed by firing squad several days later. March 5 – Country music star Patsy Cline is killed in a plane crash ...
1963_3
Section: April (2): April 7 – Yugoslavia is proclaimed to be a socialist republic, and Josip Broz Tito is named President for Life. April 8 – The 35th Academy Awards ceremony is held. Lawrence of Arabia wins Best Picture. April 10 – The U.S. nuclear submarine Thresher sinks 220 mi (190 nmi; 350 km) east of Cape Cod; al...
1963_4
Section: May (2): May 1 – The Coca-Cola Company introduces its first diet drink, Tab cola. May 2 – Berthold Seliger launches near Cuxhaven a 3-stage rocket with a maximum flight altitude of more than 100 km (62 mi) (the only sounding rocket developed in Germany). May 4 – The Le Monde Theater fire in Dioirbel, Senegal, ...
1963_5
Section: June (2): June 3 – Huế chemical attacks: The Army of the Republic of Vietnam rains liquid chemicals on the heads of Buddhist protestors, injuring 67 people. The United States threatens to cut off aid to the regime of Ngô Đình Diệm. June 4 – President of the United States John F. Kennedy signs Executive Order 1...
1963_6
Section: July (2): July 1 – ZIP codes are introduced by the United States Postal Service. July 5 – Diplomatic relations between the Israeli and the Japanese governments are raised to embassy level. July 7 – Double Seven Day scuffle: Secret police loyal to Ngô Đình Nhu, brother of President Ngô Đình Diệm, attack America...
1963_7
Section: August (2): August 5 – The United States, United Kingdom and Soviet Union sign the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. August 8 – The Great Train Robbery takes place in Buckinghamshire, England. August 14 – A huge and devastating forest fire hits the region around Paraná State, Brazil. According to government doc...
1963_8
Section: September (2): September 1 – Establishment of language areas and facilities in Belgium comes into effect. This will become the foundation for further state reform in Belgium. September 6 – The Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI) is founded. September 10 – Sicilian Mafia boss Bernardo...
1963_9
Section: October (2): October 1 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy toasts Emperor Haile Selassie at a luncheon in Rockville, Maryland. October 2 Nigeria becomes a republic; The 1st Republican Constitution is established. The Presidential Commission on the Status of Women in the United States issues its final reports to P...
1963_10
Section: November (2): November 1 – Arecibo Observatory, a radio telescope, officially begins operation in Puerto Rico. November 2 – 1963 South Vietnamese coup: Arrest and assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem, the South Vietnamese President. November 6 – 1963 South Vietnamese coup: Coup leader General Dương Văn Minh takes ov...
1963_11
Section: December (2): December 3 – The Warren Commission begins its investigation into the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy. December 4 – The second period of the Second Vatican Council closes. December 5 – The Seliger Forschungs-und-Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH demonstrates rockets for military use to mi...
1964_0
1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1964th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 964th year of the 2nd millennium, the 64th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1960s decade.
1964_0
Section: January (2): January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. January 5 – In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople meet in Jerusalem. January 6 – A British firm, the...
1964_1
Section: February (2): February 4 – The Government of the United States authorizes the Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, outlawing the poll tax. February 5 – India backs out of its promise to hold a plebiscite in the disputed territory of Kashmir. In 1948, India had taken the issue of Kashmir t...
1964_2
Section: March (2): March 6 Constantine II becomes King of Greece, upon the death of his father King Paul. American boxer Cassius Clay announces the change of his name to Muhammad Ali. March 18 – 1964 Moscow protest: Approximately 50 Moroccan students break into the embassy of Morocco in the Soviet Union and stage an a...
1964_3
Section: April (2): April 8 – The U.S. Gemini 1 is launched, the first unmanned test of the 2-man spacecraft. April 9 – The United Nations Security Council adopts by a 9–0 vote a resolution deploring a British air attack on a fort in Yemen 12 days earlier, in which 25 persons were reported killed. April 11 – The Brazil...
1964_4
Section: May (2): May 1 – At 4:00 a.m., John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz run the first computer program written in BASIC (Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code), an easy to learn high level programming language which they have created. BASIC is eventually included on many computers and even some ga...
1964_5
Section: June (2): June 3 – South Korean President Park Chung Hee declares martial law in Seoul, after 10,000 student demonstrators overpower police. June 11 Greece rejects direct talks with Turkey over Cyprus. Cologne school massacre: In Cologne, West Germany, Walter Seifert attacks students and teachers in an element...
1964_6
Section: July (2): July 2 – The United States Civil Rights Act of 1964 is enacted. July 6 – Malawi receives its independence from the United Kingdom. July 18 Six days of race riots begin in Harlem, New York, United States, apparently prompted by the shooting of a teenager. Judith Graham Pool publishes her discovery of ...
1964_7
Section: August (2): August 2 – Vietnam War: United States destroyer Maddox is attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin. Air support from the carrier USS Ticonderoga sinks one gunboat, while the other two leave the battle. August 5 Vietnam War: Operation Pierce Arrow – Aircraft from carriers USS Ticonderoga and USS Constellation...
1964_8
Section: September (2): September 2 – Indian Hungry generation poets, including Malay Roy Choudhury, are arrested on charges of conspiracy against the state and obscenity in literature. September 4 – The Forth Road Bridge opens over the Firth of Forth in Scotland. September 10 – The African Development Bank (AfDB) is f...
1964_9
Section: October (2): October – Robert Moog demonstrates the prototype Moog synthesizer. October 1 Three thousand student activists at the University of California, Berkeley, surround and block a police car from taking a CORE volunteer arrested for not showing his ID, when he violated a ban on outdoor activist card tab...
1964_10
Section: November (2): November 1 – Mortar fire from North Vietnamese forces rains on the Bien Hoa Air Base, killing four U.S. servicemen, wounding 72, and destroying five B-57 jet bombers and other planes. November 3 1964 United States presidential election: Incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson defeats Republican cha...
1964_11
Section: December (2): December 1 – Gustavo Díaz Ordaz takes office as President of Mexico. December 3 Berkeley Free Speech Movement: Police arrest about 800 students at the University of California, Berkeley, following their takeover of and massive sit-in at the Sproul Hall administration building. The sit-in most dir...
1965_0
1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1965th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 965th year of the 2nd millennium, the 65th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1960s decade.
1965_0
Section: January (2): January 4 Julia Ormond, British actress Yvan Attal, Israeli-born French actor and director January 5 Vinnie Jones, British footballer-turned-actor Patrik Sjöberg, Swedish high jumper January 9 Haddaway, German singer Farah Khan, Indian choreographer, film director Joely Richardson, British actress...
1965_1
Section: February (2): February 1 Dave Callaghan, South African cricketer Brandon Lee, Chinese-American actor (d. 1993) Sherilyn Fenn, American actress Princess Stéphanie of Monaco February 3 – Maura Tierney, American actress February 5 – Gheorghe Hagi, Romanian footballer, manager and club owner February 7 – Chris Roc...
1965_2
Section: March (2): March 1 Mike Dean, Record producer Stewart Elliott, Canadian jockey Jack Tu, Taiwanese-Canadian cardiologist (d. 2018) March 2 – Ami Bera, American politician March 3 Tedros Adhanom, Director of the World Health Organization March 4 Greg Alexander, Australian rugby league player Paul W. S. Anderson,...
1965_3
Section: April (2): April 1 Brian Marshall, Canadian retired track and field athlete Bekir Bozdağ, Turkish theologian, lawyer, and politician April 3 – Nazia Hassan, Pakistani pop singer-songwriter, lawyer and social activist (d. 2000) April 4 – Robert Downey Jr., American actor, producer, and singer April 6 Black Fran...
1965_4
Section: May (2): May 2 – Myriam Hernández, Chilean singer May 3 Gary Mitchell, Irish playwright Rob Brydon, Welsh actor, comedian, impressionist and presenter May 7 Owen Hart, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 1999) Norman Whiteside, Northern Irish football player May 9 – Steve Yzerman, Canadian hockey player May 10 ...
1965_5
Section: June (2): June 1 Larisa Lazutina, Russian cross-country skier Nigel Short, English chess player June 2 – Steve and Mark Waugh, Australian cricketers June 4 Mick Doohan, Australian motorcycle racer Andrea Jaeger, American tennis player June 6 Cam Neely, Canadian ice hockey player Megumi Ogata, Japanese voice ac...
1965_6
Section: July (2): July 1 Teddy McCarthy, hurler and Gaelic footballer Carl Fogarty, English motorcycle racer Mohammed Abdul Hussein, Iraqi former footballer July 2 – Fredrik Sejersted, Norwegian jurist July 3 Komsan Pohkong, Thai lawyer Shinya Hashimoto, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 2005) Connie Nielsen, Danish ...
1965_7
Section: August (2): August 1 – Sam Mendes, English film director August 2 Sandra Ng, Hong Kong actress Hisanobu Watanabe, Japanese baseball player and coach August 4 Terri Lyne Carrington, American jazz drummer Dennis Lehane, American crime writer Fredrik Reinfeldt, Swedish Prime Minister August 5 – Monica Ward, Itali...
1965_8
Section: September (2): September 1 – Craig McLachlan, Australian actor and singer September 2 – Lennox Lewis, British boxer September 3 Costas Mandylor, Greek-Australian actor Charlie Sheen, American actor and producer September 5 – Derby Makinka, Zambian footballer (d. 1993) September 6 – Gleisi Hoffmann, Brazilian l...
1965_9
Section: October (2): October 1 – Andreas Keller, German field hockey player October 2 Gerardo Reyero, Mexican voice actor Ferhan and Ferzan Önder, Turkish-Austrian pianists October 3 Adriana Calcanhotto, Brazilian singer and composer Jan-Ove Waldner, Swedish table tennis player October 5 Mario Lemieux, Canadian ice ho...
1965_10
Section: November (2): November 1 Patrik Ringborg, Swedish conductor November 2 Paweł Adamowicz, Polish politician and lawyer (d. 2019) Shah Rukh Khan, Indian actor, film/television producer and television presenter November 4 – Wayne Static, American singer and musician (Static-X) (d. 2014) November 7 – Sigrun Wodars,...
1965_11
Section: December (2): December 3 Steve Harris, American actor Katarina Witt, German figure skater Andrew Stanton, American animator, storyboard artist, film director, and screenwriter December 5 – Johnny Rzeznik, American rock singer and guitarist December 7 Teruyuki Kagawa, Japanese actor Jeffrey Wright, African-Amer...
1966_0
1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1966th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 966th year of the 2nd millennium, the 66th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1960s decade.
1966_0
Section: January (2): January 1 – In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa takes over as military ruler of the Central African Republic, ousting President David Dacko. January 3 – 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état: President Maurice Yaméogo is deposed by a military coup in the Republic of Upper Volta (modern-day Burkina Faso)...
1966_1
Section: February (2): February 1 – Around 2,600 political prisoners are released by East Germany, in return for "donations" worth approximately $10,000 a head from West Germany. February 3 – The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon. February 4 – All Nippon Ai...
1966_2
Section: March (2): March – The DKW automobile ceases production in Germany. March 1 The British Government announces plans for the decimalisation of the pound sterling (hitherto denominated in 20 shillings and 240 pence to the £), to come into force on 15 February 1971 (Decimal Day). Soviet space probe Venera 3 crashe...
1966_3
Section: April (2): April 2 – The Indonesian army demands that the country rejoin the United Nations. April 3 – Luna 10 is the first manmade object to enter lunar orbit. April 5 – During the Buddhist Uprising, South Vietnamese military prime minister Nguyễn Cao Kỳ personally attempts to lead the capture of the restive ...
1966_4
Section: May (2): May 4 Fiat signs a contract with the Soviet government to build a car factory in the Soviet Union. May 1966 lunar eclipse: A penumbral lunar eclipse takes place, the 64th lunar eclipse of Lunar Saros 111. May 5 – The Montreal Canadiens defeat the Detroit Red Wings to win the Stanley Cup in ice hockey....
1966_5
Section: June (2): June 2 Éamon de Valera is re-elected as Irish president, aged 84. Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft-land on another world. Four former cabinet ministers including Évariste Kimba are executed in the Democratic Republic of ...