March 1 » Battle of Adwa: An Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War.
March 1 » Henri Becquerel discovers radioactive decay.
April 6 » In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1,500 years after the original games are banned by Roman emperor Theodosius I.
May 26 » Nicholas II becomes the last Tsar of Imperial Russia.
November 1 » A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
November 17 » The Western Pennsylvania Hockey League, which later became the first ice hockey league to openly trade and hire players, began play at Pittsburgh's Schenley Park Casino.
Day of death April 15, 1965
The temperature on April 15, 1965 was between 6.4 °C and 11.3 °C and averaged 8.8 °C. There was 14.0 mm of rain during 13.5 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
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 21 » Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9, the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes.
May 18 » Israeli spy Eli Cohen is hanged in Damascus, Syria.
May 27 » Vietnam War: American warships begin the first bombardment of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam.
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.
December 22 » In the United Kingdom, a 70mph speed limit is applied to all rural roads including motorways for the first time.
Day of burial April 20, 1965
The temperature on April 20, 1965 was between 0.7 °C and 12.0 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (27%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
March 7 » Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers is brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama.
March 21 » Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9, the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes.
September 9 » The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development is established.
October 17 » The 1964–65 New York World's Fair closes after two years and more than 51 million attendees.
November 14 » Vietnam War: The Battle of Ia Drang begins: The first major engagement between regular American and North Vietnamese forces.
December 9 » Kecksburg UFO incident: A fireball is seen from Michigan to Pennsylvania; witnesses report something crashing in the woods near Pittsburgh.
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