WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO NOVEMBER 1965
Find out what all happened February to November 1965

The Constitution of Cook Islands comes into force, giving the Cook Islands self-governing status within New Zealand. (4. August 1965)

March Intifada: A Leftist uprising erupts in Bahrain against British colonial presence. (5. March 1965)

Japanese prime minister Eisaku Satō becomes the first post-World War II sitting prime minister to visit Okinawa Prefecture. (19. August 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)

The Gemini V spacecraft returns to Earth, landing in the Atlantic ocean. (29. August 1965)

Pakistan Navy raids Indian coasts without any resistance in Operation Dwarka, Pakistan celebrates Victory Day annually. (8. September 1965)

The Aero Spacelines Super Guppy aircraft makes its first flight. (31. August 1965)

The civilian Prime Minister of South Vietnam, Phan Huy Quat, resigns after being unable to work with a junta led by Nguyen Cao Ky. (9. June 1965)

Duane Earl Pope robs the Farmers' State Bank of Big Springs, Nebraska, killing three people execution-style and severely wounding a fourth. The crime later puts Pope on the FBI Ten Most Wanted list. (4. June 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)

The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 begins as Pakistani soldiers cross the Line of Control dressed as locals. (5. August 1965)

Launch of Early Bird, the first communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit. (6. April 1965)

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. (21. March 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 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)

The Canadian Space Agency launches the satellite Alouette 2. (29. November 1965)

Bob Dylan goes electric as he plugs in at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music. (25. July 1965)

The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom. (18. February 1965)

War of 1965: India retaliates following Pakistan's Operation Grand Slam which resulted in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 that ends in a stalemate and follows the signing of the Tashkent Declaration. (6. September 1965)

Ranger 8 crashes into the moon after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program astronauts. (20. February 1965)

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