2nd » Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old Quaker, sets himself on fire in front of the river entrance to the Pentagon to protest the use of napalm in the Vietnam war.
6th » Cuba and the United States formally agree to begin an airlift for Cubans who want to go to the United States. By 1971, 250,000 Cubans had made use of this program.
8th » The British Indian Ocean Territory is created, consisting of Chagos Archipelago, Aldabra, Farquhar Group named Farquhar and Des Roches islands.
8th » The Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965 is given Royal Assent, formally abolishing the death penalty in the United Kingdom.
8th » The 173rd Airborne is ambushed by over 1,200 Viet Cong in Operation Hump during the Vietnam War, while the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment fight one of the first set-piece engagements of the war between Australian forces and the Viet Cong at the
9th » Several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of Power outage named blackouts lasting up to 13 hours in the Northeast Blackout of 1965.
9th » The Catholic Worker Movement member Roger Allen LaPorte, protesting against the Vietnam War, Self-immolation e.g sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building.
11th » In Rhodesia (modern-day Zimbabwe), the white-minority government of Ian Smith Unilateral Declaration of Independence (Rhodesia) or unilaterally declares independence.
13th » The SS or Yarmouth Castle burns and sinks 60 miles off Nassau, Bahamas e.g Nassau with the loss of 90 lives.
14th » Vietnam War: The Battle of Ia Drang begins the first major engagement between regular American and North Vietnamese forces.
16th » Venera program: The Soviet Union launches the 'Venera 3' space probe toward Venus, which will be the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet.
24th » Mobutu Sese Seko Joseph-Désiré Mobutu seizes power in the Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville) Democratic Republic of the Congo and becomes Heads of state of the Democratic Republic of the Congo President; he rules the country (which he renames Zaire in 1
26th » In the Hammaguir launch facility in the Sahara Desert, France launches a Diamant named Diamant-A rocket with its first satellite, 'Asterix-1', on board.
27th » Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells President of the United States named U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned operations are to succeed, the number of United States or American troops in Vietnam has to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000.
29th » The Canadian Space Agency launches the satellite Alouette 2.