1965

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

Contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Films released 5 New books 6 Hit songs 7 Nobel Prizes

[change] Events

• February 18 - The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom
• 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

[change] Births

• January 8 - John Catliff, Canadian footballer
• July 31 - J. K. Rowling, writer
• August 25 - Mia Zapata, singer
• August 28 - Shania Twain, singer
• November 20 - Ben Stiller, actor

[change] 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

[change] 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
• Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte
• 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

[change] 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

[change] Hit songs

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

[change] 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