The temperature on July 24, 1965 was between 10.1 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 12.4 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. There was 10.2 hours of sunshine (64%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 1 » The People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan is founded in Kabul, Afghanistan.
February 9 » The United States Marine Corps sends a MIM-23 Hawk missile battalion to South Vietnam, the first American troops in-country without an official advisory or training mission.
March 15 » President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to the Selma crisis, tells U.S. Congress "We shall overcome" while advocating the Voting Rights Act.
July 29 » Vietnam War: The first 4,000 101st Airborne Division paratroopers arrive in Vietnam, landing at Cam Ranh Bay.
November 9 » Several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours in the Northeast blackout of 1965.
December 3 » The Beatles release highly successful and influential experimental folk album Rubber Soul.
Day of burial August 2, 1965
The temperature on August 2, 1965 was between 10.7 °C and 19.3 °C and averaged 15.0 °C. There was 3.1 mm of rain during 2.2 hours. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (52%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
March 6 » Premier Tom Playford of South Australia loses power after 27 years in office.
March 18 » Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.
April 6 » Launch of Early Bird, the first commercial communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit.
June 3 » The launch of Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew. Ed White, a crew member, performs the first American spacewalk.
November 8 » The Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965 is given Royal Assent, formally abolishing the death penalty in the United Kingdom, except in cases of high treason, "piracy with violence" (piracy with intent to kill or cause grievous bodily harm), arson in royal dockyards and espionage, as well as other capital offences under military law. The death penalty would be abolished in all cases in 1998.
November 26 » France launches Astérix, becoming the third nation to put an object in orbit using its own booster.
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