WHAT HAPPENED IN 1965.
Look what happened the 1965.

The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 (also known as the Second Kashmir War) between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, ends after the UN calls for a cease-fire. (22. September 1965)

The Lockheed L-100, the civilian version of the C-130 Hercules, is introduced. (30. September 1965)

The 30 September Movement attempts a coup against the Indonesian government, which is crushed by the military under Suharto and leads to a mass anti-communist purge, with over 500,000 people killed. (30. September 1965)

General Suharto puts down an apparent coup attempt by the 30 September Movement in Indonesia. (1. October 1965)

Pope Paul VI arrives in New York, the first Pope to visit the United States of America and the Western hemisphere. (4. October 1965)

Vietnam War: The Catholic Worker Movement stages an anti-war rally in Manhattan including a public burning of a draft card; the first such act to result in arrest under a new amendment to the Selective Service Act. (15. October 1965)

The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair closes after a two year run. More than 51 million people had attended the two-year event. (17. October 1965)

Comet Ikeya-Seki approaches perihelion, passing 450,000 kilometers from the sun. (21. October 1965)

Vietnam War: The 1st Cavalry Division (United States) (Airmobile), in conjunction with South Vietnamese forces, launches a new operation seeking to destroy North Vietnamese forces in Pleiku in the II Corps Tactical Zone (the Central Highlands). (23. October 1965)

Nostra Aetate, the "Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions" of the Second Vatican Council, is promulgated by Pope Paul VI; it absolves the Jews of responsibility for the death of Jesus, reversing Innocent III's 760 year-old declaration. (28. October 1965)

Construction on the St. Louis Arch is completed. (28. October 1965)

Vietnam War: Just miles from Da Nang, United States Marines repel an intense attack by wave after wave of Viet Cong forces, killing 56 guerrillas. (30. October 1965)

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. (2. November 1965)

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. (6. November 1965)

The British Indian Ocean Territory is created, consisting of Chagos Archipelago, Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches islands. (8. November 1965)

The Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965 is given Royal Assent, formally abolishing the death penalty in the United Kingdom. (8. November 1965)

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 Vietcong at the Battle of Gang Toi. (8. November 1965)

Several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours in the Northeast Blackout of 1965. (9. November 1965)

The Catholic Worker Movement member Roger Allen LaPorte, protesting against the Vietnam War, sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building. (9. November 1965)

In Rhodesia (modern-day Zimbabwe), the white-minority government of Ian Smith unilaterally declares independence. (11. November 1965)