1965

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

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

Events

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

Births

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

Deaths

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

Films released

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

New books

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

Hit songs

• "Nowhere to Run" – Martha Reeve and the Vandellas

Nobel Prizes

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