About the day » Sunday December 26, 1965Calender converter

• Hendrik Bron
• Erik Jan Pool, Nederhorst den Berg († 1968)
• Riekie Onstein, Arnhem († 2007)
• Mart Koolaard († 2023)
• Jos Claes, Sint-Truiden, België († 2013)
• Etienne Diederich Viljoen, Zuid-Afrika, R.S.A. († 1966)

• Bernard Coes (37), Assen
• Antonia Cornelia van de Vijfeijke (70), Eindhoven
• Adrianus Meskers (70), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arville Sutton (60)
• André Marinus Leon Waterreus (81), Ventura
• Andries WILBERS (83), Heerenveen, Heerenveen, Friesland, Nederland
• Aukje Aukes Douma (86), Berlikum, Menaldumadeel, Friesland, Netherlands
• Celso Nucci (51), Campinas, São Paulo, Brasil
• Adolph Gadeijne ( °Hulstaert ) (68), Gent Oost Vl *
• Alida Wynckolina den BEER POORTUGAEL (64), The Hague (Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands)

• 1961 » Andrew Lock, Australian mountaineer
• 1961 » John Lynch, Northern Irish actor
• 1962 » Mark Starr, English wrestler († 2013)
• 1963 » Craig Teitzel, Australian rugby league player
• 1963 » Lars Ulrich, Danish-American drummer, songwriter, and producer
• 1964 » Elizabeth Kostova, American author
• 1966 » Jay Farrar, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1966 » Jay Yuenger, American guitarist and producer
• 1966 » Tim Legler, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1968 » Matt Zoller Seitz, American film critic and author

• 1959 » Jack Tresadern, English footballer and manager (b. 1890)
• 1960 » Tetsuro Watsuji, Japanese historian and philosopher (b. 1889)
• 1963 » Gorgeous George, American wrestler (b. 1915)
• 1966 » Guillermo Stábile, Argentinian footballer and manager (b. 1905)
• 1966 » Herbert Otto Gille, German general (b. 1897)
• 1966 » Ina Boudier-Bakker, Dutch author (b. 1875)
• 1968 » Weegee, Ukrainian-American photographer and journalist (b. 1898)
• 1970 » Lillian Board, South African-English runner (b. 1948)
• 1972 » Harry S. Truman, American colonel and politician, 33rd President of the United States (b. 1884)
• 1973 » Harold B. Lee, American religious leader, 11th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1899)

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 24, 1963 to April 14, 1965 the cabinet Marijnen, with Mr. V.G.M. Marijnen (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 14, 1965 to November 22, 1966 the cabinet Cals, with Mr. J.M.L.Th. Cals (KVP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 12.2 million citizens.
• February 20 » Ranger 8 crashes into the Moon after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program astronauts.
• April 11 » The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states, killing 256 people.
• June 19 » Nguyễn Cao Kỳ becomes Prime Minister of South Vietnam at the head of a military junta; General Nguyễn Văn Thiệu becomes the figurehead chief of state.
• 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.
• September 6 » India retaliates following Pakistan's Operation Grand Slam which results in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 that ends in a stalemate followed by the signing of the Tashkent Declaration.
• October 15 » Vietnam War: A draft card is burned during an anti-war rally by the Catholic Worker Movement, resulting in the first arrest under a new law.

The temperature on December 26, 1965 was between -0.8 °C and 5.2 °C and averaged 2.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (75%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.