January 4 » Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island. The Edison film company records the film Electrocuting an Elephant of Topsy's death.
March 2 » In New York City the Martha Washington Hotel opens, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women.
April 19 » The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Palestine and the Western world.
July 4 » The Philippine–American War is officially concluded.
August 29 » The Slava, the last of the five Borodino-class battleships, is launched.
October 10 » The Women's Social and Political Union is founded in support of the enfranchisement of British women.
Day of death February 18, 1965
The temperature on February 18, 1965 was between -3.2 °C and 3.4 °C and averaged -0.5 °C. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (44%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
February 8 » Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean and explodes, killing everyone aboard.
March 6 » Premier Tom Playford of South Australia loses power after 27 years in office.
March 15 » President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to the Selma crisis, tells U.S. Congress "We shall overcome" while advocating the Voting Rights Act.
September 21 » The Gambia, Maldives and Singapore are admitted as members of the United Nations.
November 11 » Southern Rhodesia's Prime Minister Ian Smith unilaterally declares the colony independent as the unrecognised state of Rhodesia
December 3 » The Beatles release highly successful and influential experimental folk album Rubber Soul.
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