January 1 » Eritrea is consolidated into a colony by the Italian government.
January 25 » Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
April 7 » Completion of the first Lake Biwa Canal.
July 1 » Canada and Bermuda are linked by telegraph cable.
August 7 » Anna Månsdotter became the last woman to be executed in Sweden for the 1889 Yngsjö murder.
September 12 » Salisbury, Rhodesia, is founded.
Day of death September 13, 1965
The temperature on September 13, 1965 was between 7.1 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 12.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (16%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 9 » The Mirzapur Cadet College formally opens for academic activities in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
January 26 » Hindi becomes the official language of India.
March 25 » Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King Jr. successfully complete their 4-day 50-mile march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.
August 9 » Singapore is expelled from Malaysia and becomes the only country to date to gain independence unwillingly.
October 17 » The 1964–65 New York World's Fair closes after two years and more than 51 million attendees.
December 3 » The Beatles release highly successful and influential experimental folk album Rubber Soul.
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