July 27 » Vincent van Gogh shoots himself and dies two days later.
August 7 » Anna Månsdotter became the last woman to be executed in Sweden for the 1889 Yngsjö murder.
September 12 » Salisbury, Rhodesia, is founded.
October 11 » In Washington, D.C., the Daughters of the American Revolution is founded.
November 29 » The Meiji Constitution goes into effect in Japan, and the first Diet convenes.
December 15 » Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull is killed on Standing Rock Indian Reservation, leading to the Wounded Knee Massacre.
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 1 » The People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan is founded in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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.
July 16 » South Vietnamese Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo, a formerly undetected communist spy and double agent, is hunted down and killed by unknown individuals after being sentenced to death in absentia for a February 1965 coup attempt against Nguyễn Khánh.
August 6 » US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.
September 30 » In Indonesia, a coup by the 30 September Movement is crushed, leading to a mass anti-communist purge, with over 500,000 people killed.
October 4 » Pope Paul VI begins the first papal visit to the Americas.
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