WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO OCTOBER 1965
Find out what all happened May to October 1965

Battle of Dong-Yin, a naval conflict between ROC and PRC, takes place. (1. May 1965)

The Supreme Court of the United States handed down its decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples. (7. June 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)

Vietnam War: In a follow-up to August's Operation Starlight, United States Marines and South Vietnamese forces initiate Operation Piranha on the Batangan Peninsula. (7. September 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)

The infamous first Reyes party between Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters and motorcycle gang the Hells Angels takes place at Kesey's estate in La Honda, California introducing psychedelics to the gang world and forever linking the hippie movement to the Hell's Angels. (7. August 1965)

Vietnam War: the first 4,000 101st Airborne Division paratroopers arrive in Vietnam, landing at Cam Ranh Bay. (29. July 1965)

The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes on the Moon. (12. May 1965)

US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law. (6. August 1965)

Japanese prime minister Eisaku Satō becomes the first post-World War II sitting prime minister to visit Okinawa Prefecture. (19. August 1965)

Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces his order to increase the number of United States troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000. (28. July 1965)

PIA Flight 705, a Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 720-040B, crashes while descending to land at Cairo International Airport, killing 121 of the 127 passengers and crew. (20. May 1965)

Vietnam War: American warships begin the first bombardment of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam. (27. May 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 Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 begins as Pakistani soldiers cross the Line of Control dressed as locals. (5. August 1965)

Construction on the St. Louis Arch is completed. (28. October 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 Mont Blanc Tunnel linking France and Italy opens. (16. July 1965)

Vietnam War: Operation Starlite begins – United States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in the first major American ground battle of the war. (18. August 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)