1965
year
1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1965th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 965th year of the 2nd millennium, the 65th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1960s decade.
Events
January–February
January 14 – The First Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years.
January 20
Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in for a full term as President of the United States.
Indonesian President Sukarno announces the withdrawal of the Indonesian government from the United Nations.
January 29 – Hakametsä, the first ice rink of Finland, is inaugurated in Tampere.
January 30 – The state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill takes place in London with the largest assembly of dignitaries in the world until the 2005 funeral of Pope John Paul II.
February 4 – Trofim Lysenko is removed from his post as director of the Institute of Genetics at the Academy of Sciences in the Soviet Union. Lysenkoist theories are now treated as pseudoscience.
February 12 – The African and Malagasy Common Organization (Organization Commune Africaine et Malgache; OCAM) is formed as successor to the Afro-Malagasy Union for Economic Cooperation (Union Africaine et Malgache de Cooperation Economique; UAMCE), formerly the African and Malagasy Union (Union Africaine et Malgache; UAM).
February 15 – The maple leaf is adopted as the flag of Canada, replacing the Canadian Red Ensign flag.
February 18 – The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
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