1965

• India-Pakistan War
• Aleksei Leonov takes 1st space walk
• World's 1st commercial satellite launched
• Ferdinand Marcos elected President of the Philippines
• Cigarette ads on television banned in the United Kingdom
• Lyndon Johnson outlines his "Great Society"
• U.S. officially enters Vietnam War
• Malcolm X assassinated
• 2 Gemini spacecraft dock in space
• 17,000 attend anti-war rally at Madison Square Garden
• Medicare begins
• Montgomery Freedom March
• Race riots in Watts, in Los Angeles
• "Great Blackout"
• Houston Astrodome opens
• Ralph Nader's Unsafe at Any Speed
• Astroturf developed
• Holograms
• Kevlar
• Miniskirts
• NutraSweet
• Portable video recorders
• Soft contact lenses
• The Superball
• Lava lites
• Song - "Mr. Tambourine Man" by The Byrds (1st electrified folk song), "King of the Road", "A Hard Day's Night"
• Film - "Help"
• TV - "Mr. Ed", "Get Smart", "Hogan's Heroes", "I Dream of Jeannie", "Lost in Space"
• Matt Biondi, Nicholas Cage, Shania Twain, Reggie Miller, Linda Evangelista, Marlee Matlin, Brooke Shields, Scottie Pippin, and Kurt Cobain born
• Winston Churchill, T.S. Elliott, Nat King Cole, Edward R. Murrow, David O. Selznick, and Albert Schweitzer die

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