March 18 » Macario Sakay issues Presidential Order No. 1 of his Tagalog Republic.
April 2 » Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated in the Marie Palace, Saint Petersburg.
May 8 » In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000 people. Only a handful of residents survive the blast.
May 31 » Second Boer War: The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the war and ensures British control of South Africa.
November 29 » The Pittsburgh Stars defeated the Philadelphia Athletics, 11–0 to win the first championship associated with an American national professional football league.
December 10 » The opening of the reservoir of the Aswan Dam in Egypt.
Day of death April 27, 1965
The temperature on April 27, 1965 was between 4.2 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain during 3.0 hours. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (25%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
January 28 » The current design of the Flag of Canada is chosen by an act of Parliament.
February 18 » The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
August 11 » Race riots (the Watts Riots) begin in the Watts area of Los Angeles, California.
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.
November 9 » A Catholic Worker Movement member, Roger Allen LaPorte, protesting against the Vietnam War, sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building.
November 14 » Vietnam War: The Battle of Ia Drang begins: The first major engagement between regular American and North Vietnamese forces.
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