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{{short description|Month of 1965}}
{{events by month|1965}}
{{calendar|year=1965|month=May}}

[[File:YF-12A.jpg|300px|thumb|left|May 1, 1965: The YF-12 flies faster than any previous airplane]]
[[File:Honduran soldiers, first troops of Inter-American peace force, arrive to assume peace-keeping duties and to render emerg - NARA - 541976.jpg|300px|thumb|left|May 14, 1965: Inter-American Peace Force arrives in Dominican Republic to replace U.S. troops]]

The following events occurred in '''May 1965''':

==[[May 1]], 1965 (Saturday)==
*Two new world records for flight speed were set by a [[Lockheed YF-12]]A jet interceptor on the same day by two different crews. On one flight, the crew broke the 2,000&nbsp;mph barrier, flying at 2,070.102 miles per hour (Mach 3.27)<ref name=Pace>Steve Pace, ''X-Planes at Edwards'' (MBI Publishing, 1995)  p51</ref> and shattering the previous speed record of 1,665.8 miles per hour that had been set on [[July 1962|July 7, 1962]], by a Soviet [[Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-150 family|Ye-166]]. The YF-12A also broke the record for a closed course flight (from one point to another and then back again) averaging {{convert|2715.5|miles|km}} per hour by flying {{convert|1000|km|miles}} in 22 minutes, and breaking the record set by the Soviets in the Ye-166 the previous month.<ref>"2 Jet Records Set", ''Chicago Tribune'', May 2, 1965, p2</ref> A new record was also set for highest sustained altitude, as the YF-12A flew for several minutes at 80,258 feet.<ref name=Pace/>
*The [[Battle of Dong-Yin]] took place between Taiwan and Mainland China. A [[Republic of China Navy]] destroyer was patrolling the [[Taiwan Strait]] near [[Dongyin, Lienchiang|Dongyin Island]] on its side of the border, when it encountered eight gunboats from the [[People's Liberation Army Navy|Navy of the People's Republic of China]], and two sides exchanged fire as the PRC combatants attempted to encircle the ROC ship. Four of the gunboats were sunk, and two others damaged, while the destroyer returned to Taiwan with minimal damage. The news, announced from Taipei by the ROC Navy, "did not identify the Nationalist ship further".<ref>"Nationalists Sink 4 Red China Boats", AP report in ''Lake Charles (LA) American-Press'', May 2, 1965, p1</ref>
*[[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]] won the [[1965 FA Cup Final|FA Cup]] in extra time, beating [[Leeds United F.C.|Leeds United]] 2–1 before a crowd of 100,000 at Wembley Stadium. Neither side had been able to score in the 90 minutes of regulation time; three minutes into the extra time, Liverpool's [[Roger Hunt]] headed the ball in after a cross from [[Gerry Byrne (footballer, born 1938)|Gerry Byrne]] (who had broken his collarbone early in the match); [[Billy Bremner]] equalised the score to 1–1 ten minutes later. After 113 minutes of play, [[Ian St John]] headed in the game-winner on a pass from [[Ian Callaghan]] for Liverpool's first FA cup ever.
*The [[Montreal Canadiens]] won the [[1965 Stanley Cup Finals|Stanley Cup]] in the seventh and deciding game of the National Hockey League best-of-seven series, beating the [[Chicago Black Hawks]], 4–0. All seven of the series games were won by the home team; only 14 seconds after the final started, [[Jean Béliveau]] scored the first goal, and before the first 20 minutes were completed, three more were added.<ref>"CANADIENS BEAT HAWKS, 4-0; WIN CUP!", ''Chicago Tribune'', May 2, 1965, p2-1</ref>
*'''Died:''' [[Spike Jones]], 53, American comedian, musician, and bandleader, died from [[emphysema]].<ref>Jack Mirtle, ''Thank You Music Lovers: A Bio-discography of Spike Jones'' (Greenwood Press, 1966)</ref>

==[[May 2]], 1965 (Sunday)==
*U.S. President [[Lyndon Johnson]] made a nationally televised speech to explain the [[Dominican Civil War|invasion of the Dominican Republic by American troops]], and said that "There are time in the affairs of nations when great principles are tested in an ordeal of conflict and danger. This is such a time for the American nations. At stake are the lives of thousands, the liberty of a nation, and the principles and the values of all the American Republics." He added that the Dominican revolution had "taken a tragic turn" and that "what began as a popular democratic revolution" was "seized and placed into the hands of a band of Communist conspirators." Johnson announced that he had ordered "2,000 extra men" to the Dominican Republic and for an additional 4,500 men to be deployed "at the earliest possible moment." "The American nations cannot, must not, and will not permit the establishment of another Communist government in the Western Hemisphere.... This is what our beloved President John F. Kennedy meant when, less than a week before his death, he told us: 'We in this hemisphere must also use every resource at our command to prevent the establishment of another Cuba in this hemisphere.'"<ref>''Encyclopedia of U.S. Military Interventions in Latin America'', Alan McPherson, ed. (ABC-CLIO, 2013) p755</ref><ref>"U.S. Wants No More Cubas: President", ''Albuquerque (NM) Journal'', May 3, 1965, p1</ref><ref>[http://millercenter.org/president/lbjohnson/speeches/speech-4033 Transcript of "Report on the Situation in the Dominican Republic (May 2, 1965)"], MillerCenter.org</ref>
*[[South Korea]] President [[Park Chung Hee]] gave a speech chastising student protesters. "Dear students!" he said, "Whenever the politicians wrangle over a big issue in the National Assembly, you, without knowing the real point of the issue, take to the streets or hold discussion meetings on the campus with placards saying 'Down with the Government'... But I say this to you frankly, that you are the future masters of the nation, but you must train yourself for the job 10 or 20 more years. Then comes the time for your generation, not now..."<ref>Paul Y. Chang, ''Protest Dialectics: State Repression and South Korea's Democracy Movement, 1970–1979'' (Stanford University Press, 2015) p63</ref>
*''[[Wagon Train]]'', the popular television [[Western (genre)|Western]] drama ended after eight seasons with the broadcast of its 272nd and final original episode.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050073/episodes?season=8&ref_=tt_eps_sn_8 imdb.com]</ref> The series closer was also a [[television pilot]]<ref>"TV Scout Reports", in ''Edwardsville (IL) Intelligencer'', May 1, 1965, p5</ref> with [[Frank McGrath (actor)|Frank McGrath]]'s character (Charlie Wooster) telling [[Terry Wilson (actor)|Terry Wilson]]'s Bill Hawks about Charlie's days working at a trading post. The pilot, ''Bend of the River'', would not be picked up by any of the networks.
*The [[Intelsat I]] communications satellite (nicknamed "Early Bird"), launched on April 6, was moved to a stationary geosynchronous orbit, 22,300 miles above the Atlantic Ocean and began regular operations.<ref>Burton Paulu, ''Radio and Television Broadcasting on the European Continent'' (University of Minnesota Press, 1967) p45</ref>
*The Soviet Union lost all contact with [[Zond 2]], the interplanetary probe that it had launched toward [[Mars]] on November 30, 1964.<ref>Patrick Moore, ''Mission to the Planets: The Illustrated Story of Man's Exploration of the Solar System'' (W. W. Norton & Company, 1990) p125</ref><ref>[http://www.russianspaceweb.com/3mv_Zond-2.html "Zond-2: An early attempt to touch Mars?"], RussianSpaceWeb.com</ref>

==[[May 3]], 1965 (Monday)==
*An earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Mercalli scale struck [[El Salvador]] at dawn. Heaviest damage was in the Cisneros district of the capital, [[San Salvador]], and the neighboring cities of [[Delgado, San Salvador|Delgado]] and [[Mejicanos]].<ref>"101 Killed, 500 in El Salvador", ''Chicago Tribune'', May 4, 1965, p2</ref> The official death toll was 120 people; more than 1,500 would die in a second earthquake on October 10, 1986, and "a significant number of the victims" would be "killed by the collapse of engineered structures that had been weakened in the 1965 event", most notably the 300 people dying in a five-story building that had been condemned after the 1965 earthquake.<ref>"Seismic hazard assessment, seismic design codes, and earthquake engineering in El Salvador, by Manuel Lopez, et al., in ''Natural Hazards in El Salvador'', William I. Rose, ed. (Geological Society of America, 2004) p302</ref> 
*An article in ''Newsweek'' magazine prompted the breaking of diplomatic relations by Cambodia with the United States. Prince [[Norodom Sihanouk]] cited a report about his mother, [[Sisowath Kossamak|Queen Kossamak]], that had accused her of involvement in "various money-making schemes".<ref>"Cambodia Ends Diplomatic Tie with U.S.— Blames Bombing Raids, Story in Magazine", ''Chicago Tribune'', May 4, 1965, p12</ref>
*President [[Sukarno]] of [[Indonesia]] called for volunteers to "dissolve the puppet state of [[Malaysia]]", both on the island of Java and on the Malay peninsula.<ref>Francis Pike, ''Empires at War: A Short History of Modern Asia Since World War II'' (I.B.Tauris, 2011)</ref>
*The [[1965 Cannes Film Festival]] opened.
*'''Born:''' 
**[[Red Rum]], Irish champion Thoroughbred racehorse; in [[Kells, County Kilkenny|Kells]], [[County Kilkenny]] (d. 1995)<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/horseracing/8775150/Legend-of-Ginger-Mr-Aintree-McCain-will-live-forever.html Legend of Ginger 'Mr Aintree' McCain will live forever] Telegraph. Retrieved 10 October 2011</ref>
**[[Gary Mitchell]], Northern Irish playwright; in [[Rathcoole]]
*'''Died:''' 
**[[Árpád Szakasits]], 76, [[List of heads of state of Hungary|President of Hungary]] (1948–1949), and chairman of the [[List of heads of state of Hungary|Presidential Council]] (1949–1950) after the post of president was abolished. 
**[[Howard Spring]], 76, British novelist and journalist

==[[May 4]], 1965 (Tuesday)==
*[[Pope Paul VI]] literally gave his blessing to the Italian space program, granting an audience to [[Luigi Broglio]] and a group of technicians and managers at the Vatican to discuss Broglio's successful effort in making Italy the third nation (in 1964, after the Soviet Union and the United States) to place an [[artificial satellite]] into orbit. The Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church praised the [[San Marco programme|San Marco project]], saying, "You do have this deep faith; your presence here, with the humble Vicar of Jesus Christ, tells us that. The name San Marco tells us that, the name you gave your project as well as both satellites you produced, destined to carry into sidereal spaces, together with the presence of Italy, a sincere expression of complete and joyous confidence in heavenly protection too."<ref>{{cite book |first1=Michelangelo |last1=De Maria |first2=Lucia |last2=Orlando |title=Italy in Space: In Search of a Strategy, 1957–1975 |publisher=[[Editions Beauchesne]] |year=2008 |page=100}}</ref>
*Colonel [[Francisco Caamaño]] was sworn in as [[President of the Dominican Republic]] at the presidential palace in [[Santo Domingo]], after rebel forces convened a constitutional congress and voted to have him govern until the return of exiled ex-President [[Juan Bosch (politician)|Juan Bosch]]. Addressing a crowd of 2,500 supporters in Independence Plaza, Caamaño called for the immediate withdrawal of the 14,000 American troops that had arrived in the Caribbean nation during the past week.<ref>{{cite news |title=Caamano Named 'President' by Rebel Forces |first=Jules |last=Dubois |author-link=
Jules Dubois |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |date=May 5, 1965 |page=1}}</ref>
*The [[split capital investment trust]], a form of investment that allows investors to choose between two or more classes of shares of stock, was introduced. The New York City offices of the British firm [[Samuel Montagu & Co.]] launched the program as the Dualvest Limited Fund.<ref>{{cite book |first=Andrew T. |last=Adams |title=The Split Capital Investment Trust Crisis |publisher=[[John Wiley & Sons]] |year=2005 |page=21}}</ref>
*The American version of ''[[That Was the Week That Was]]'', hosted by [[David Frost]] on the NBC television network, was shown for the last time.<ref>{{cite book |first=Anthony |last=Slide |author-link=
Anthony Slide |title=Some Joe You Don't Know: An American Biographical Guide to 100 British Television Personalities |publisher=Greenwood |year=1996 |page=68}}</ref>

==[[May 5]], 1965 (Wednesday)==
*Forty male students at the [[University of California, Berkeley|University of California]] in [[Berkeley, California|Berkeley]] stood in front of the city's [[Conscription in the United States|draft board office]] and [[Draft-card burning|burned their draft cards]], introducing what would become a common form of antiwar protest and a refusal to join the war effort. The 40 UC students were among hundreds who marched to the draft board after a noon rally on the Berkeley campus. "While Berkeley police photographers snapped their photos," an [[Associated Press]] report noted, "the students squatted in a huddle like a football team and placed their burning cards in a small pile." Although future draft-card burnings would be made in opposition to the [[Vietnam War]], the initial protest was against the U.S. invasion of the Dominican Republic. A spokesman for the Selective Service System noted that U.S. law required "that a registrant must have his draft card with him at all times" and that the general practice when a registrant was unable to produce his draft card was to have him "reported to his local draft board, which sometimes treats me as a delinquent and speeds up his induction."<ref>{{cite news |title=Students Burn Draft Cards |newspaper=[[Fresno Bee]] |location=[[Fresno, California]] |date=May 6, 1965 |page=1}}</ref>
*"[[Boss Radio]]", a music programming format that relied on less talking by the disc jockeys, shorter commercials, and more frequent play of the most popular songs of the week, was introduced by a Los Angeles radio station, [[KHJ-AM]]. The concept, developed by [[Bill Drake]] and [[Gene Chenault]], along with Gary Mack and Les Turpin, relied on playing of the same 33 songs throughout the day, punctuated occasionally by older records. The planned debut had actually been for May 19, but a disgruntled news announcer at KHJ revealed the plan to rival radio station [[KFWB]], so KHJ disc jockey Don Steele rushed the Boss Radio format on the air the same afternoon; KFWB retreated from stealing the KHJ idea. The "more music, less talk" format would quickly be adopted by other radio stations in the United States.<ref>{{cite book |first=R. Serge |last=Denisoff |title=Solid Gold: The Popular Record Industry |publisher=[[Transaction Publishers]] |year=1975 |pages=236–238}}</ref>
*[[Iberia Airlines Flight 401]] from [[Madrid]] crashed while attempting to land at the airport at [[Tenerife]] in the [[Canary Islands]], killing 30 of the 49 people on board. The Super Constellation plane had aborted one landing attempt in heavy fog, and on the second approach, it struck farm equipment located about {{convert|150|ft}} from the edge of the runway.<ref>{{cite news |title=31 Die in Crash of Air Liner; Spanish Plane Falls in Canary Islands |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |date=May 6, 1965 |page=1}}</ref><ref>[https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19650505-0 aviation-safety.net]</ref>
*The [[Organization of American States]] (OAS) voted 14 to 5 to create an "Inter-American Peace Force" to occupy the Dominican Republic until order could be restored. Opposing the measure were Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay.<ref>{{cite news |title=OAS Votes to Police Dominican Republic |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |date=May 6, 1965 |page=1}}</ref>

==[[May 6]], 1965 (Thursday)==
*By a margin of only four votes, Prime Minister Harold Wilson's plan for nationalization of the majority of the [[British Steel (1967–1999)|British steel industry]] was approved by the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]]. At 10:00&nbsp;p.m., voting began and the measure barely passed, 310–306, with Wilson's Labour Party in support, and ten members of the Liberal Party joining with the Conservative Party in opposition. Six Labour MPs who were unwell did not appear for the vote. One Labour MP, [[Leslie Spriggs]], was brought in because he was recovering from a [[heart attack]], and announced his vote while lying in an ambulance parked in a courtyard, and Labourite [[Barbara Castle]] checked out of a hospital so that she could be present.<ref>{{cite news |title=Largest Vote in History |newspaper=[[Glasgow Herald]] |date=May 7, 1965 |page=1}}</ref> The Labour Party had to make a compromise to its plans for a total nationalization of the industry in order to obtain the votes of two of its members, [[Woodrow Wyatt]] and [[Desmond Donnelly]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Test on Steel Seizure Won by Laborites |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |date=May 7, 1965 |page=1}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Majority of 4 on Steel; Labour Prepared to Compromise |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |date=May 7, 1965 |page=1}}</ref>
*By day's end, the Labour Party's four vote majority in Commons was cut to only three as Conservative Party member [[Reginald Eyre]] overwhelmingly defeated his two opponents to win the [[1965 Birmingham Hall Green by-election|by-election]] to fill the vacancy left when Labour's [[Aubrey Jones]] resigned to serve on the Prices and Incomes Board.<ref>{{cite news |title=Edge Cut to 3 |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |date=May 7, 1965 |page=1}}</ref>
*Earlier in the day, the winds tore the roof off the elementary school in [[Shell Lake, Wisconsin]] at 9:40 in the morning while 307 students and teachers were in the ten classrooms, but there were no injuries.<ref>{{cite news |title=Wind Rips Roof From Shell Lake School |newspaper=[[La Crosse Tribune]] |location=[[La Crosse, Wisconsin]] |date=May 7, 1965 |page=2}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Twisters Claim 13 Lives in Minnesota |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |date=May 8, 1965 |page=1}}</ref>
*A [[1965 Twin Cities tornado outbreak|tornado outbreak]] near the [[Twin Cities]] (Minneapolis and St. Paul) in [[Minnesota]] killed 13 people and injured 683. [[Spring Lake Park, Minnesota|Spring Lake Park]] and [[Mound, Minnesota]] were hardest hit, with four fatalities apiece.<ref>{{cite news |title=More Tornadoes in State, 12 Killed |newspaper=[[Winona Daily News]] |location=[[Winona, Minnesota]] |date=May 7, 1965 |page=1}}</ref> 
*'''Died:''' [[Una Marson]], 60, Jamaican-born British feminist, died from a heart attack.<ref>Waters, "Una Marson", ''Dictionary of Literary Biography'', vol. 157: ''Caribbean and Black African Writers'', third series, 207.</ref>

==[[May 7]], 1965 (Friday)==
*The [[Rhodesian Front]] political party, led by Prime Minister [[Ian Smith]], retained its majority in the [[1965 Rhodesian general election|general election for the House of Assembly]]. The election was held using two rolls, an "A" roll, which was largely white (getting votes from 95,208 whites and 2,256 blacks) for the 50 seats set aside for white candidates, and a "B" roll, mostly African, for 15 seats reserved for colony's African majority population.<ref>{{cite news |title=All-White Regime Wins In Rhodesia |newspaper=[[Tucson Daily Citizen]] |location=[[Tucson, Arizona]] |date=May 8, 1965 |page=1}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://africanelections.tripod.com/zw.html#1965_House_of_Assembly_Election |title=7 May 1965 House of Assembly Election |website=African Elections Database}}</ref>
*The limestone carrier freighter {{SS|Cedarville}} collided with a Norwegian freighter, SS ''Topdalsfjord'', while both were traveling in the [[Straits of Mackinac]] that separate the [[Upper Peninsula of Michigan]] and the rest of the state, and connect [[Lake Michigan]] and [[Lake Huron]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Ships Collide; 7 Missing |newspaper=[[Phoenix Gazette]] |date=May 7, 1965 |page=1}}</ref> Twenty-five members of the crew of 35 were rescued, but two died while floating in the cold waters, and eight others went down with the ship.
*President Johnson signed legislation providing an additional $700,000,000 toward fighting the Vietnam War. The resolution had passed the [[U.S. Senate]] by a vote of 88 to 3, and the [[U.S. House of Representatives]] by a vote of 408 to 7. At the ceremony, Johnson said, "America keeps her promises. And we will back up those promises with all the resources that we need."<ref>{{cite book |first=Frank E. |last=Vandiver |author-link=Frank Vandiver |title=Shadows of Vietnam: Lyndon Johnson's Wars |publisher=[[Texas A&M University Press]] |year=1997 |page=114}}</ref>
*Brigadier General [[Antonio Imbert Barrera]] of the [[Dominican Air Force]] was named as the [[President of the Dominican Republic]] by the military regime, replacing Colonel [[Pedro Bartolomé Benoit]], who had been installed ten days earlier. Meanwhile, the rebels opposing the government claimed Colonel Francisco Caamaño as the President.<ref>{{cite news |title=PICK NEW DOMINICAN CHIEF; Gen. Imbert Named President of Junta; But Rebel Leader Vows to Keep Office |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |date=May 8, 1965 |page=1}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |chapter=Dominican Republic |title=Heads of States and Governments Since 1945 |editor-first=Harris M. |editor-last=Lentz |publisher=[[Routledge]] |year=2014 |page=232}}</ref>
*The [[173rd Airborne Brigade]], the first major ground combat unit of the [[United States Army]] to be deployed in the Vietnam War, arrived in [[South Vietnam]], with two infantry battalions landing at the [[Bien Hoa]] Air Base.<ref>{{cite book |first=Gordon L. |last=Rottman |author-link=Gordon L. Rottman |title=Vietnam Airborne |publisher=[[Bloomsbury Publishing]] |year=2012}}</ref> In all, the "Sky Soldiers" of the 173rd Airborne had 3,500 men<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=173rd Airborne Brigade |dictionary=Historical Dictionary of the War in Vietnam |editor-first=Ronald B. Jr. |editor-last=Frankum |publisher=[[Scarecrow Press]] |year=2011 |page=17}}</ref> and the brigade would remain until August 25, 1971.<ref>{{cite book |first1=James F. |last1=Dunnigan |author1-link=Jim Dunnigan |first2=Albert A. |last2=Nofi |author2-link=Albert Nofi |title=Dirty Little Secrets of the Vietnam War |publisher=Macmillan |year=1999 |page=227}}</ref>
*'''Born:''' 
**[[Owen Hart]], Canadian-born American professional wrestler known as "The Blue Blazer", who was killed when he fell {{Convert|78|ft}} while being lowered to a match during a pay television event; in [[Calgary]] (d. 1999)
**[[Norman Whiteside]], Northern Ireland soccer football player and the youngest player (in 1982 at age 17) to appear in the World Cup; in [[Belfast]]
*'''Died:'''
**[[Alf Bjørnskau Bastiansen]], 81, Norwegian priest and politician
**[[Charles Sheeler]], 81, American photographer

==[[May 8]], 1965 (Saturday)==
*[[Randy Matson]] became the first person to hurl a standard [[Men's shot put world record progression|shot put]] more than {{Convert|70|ft}}. Matson, competing at an athletic meet at Texas A&M University in [[College Station, Texas]], threw the {{Convert|16|lb|adj=on}} sphere 70 feet, {{frac|7|1|4}} inches (21.52 meters). The current record, set in 1990, is 75 feet, 10 inches (23.12 meters).<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Shot Put |dictionary=Historical Dictionary of Track and Field |editor-first=Peter |editor-last=Matthew |publisher=Scarecrow Press |year=2012 |page=188}}</ref>
*The [[Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians]] (AACM) was founded in [[Chicago]].<ref>{{cite book |first=David |last=Toop |author-link=David Toop |title=Into the Maelstrom: Music, Improvisation and the Dream of Freedom: Before 1970 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA |year=2016}}</ref>

==[[May 9]], 1965 (Sunday)==
*Construction began on what would become the [[Chu Lai Air Base]] in [[South Vietnam]], as a unit of the U.S. [[Naval Mobile Construction Battalion]], NMCB-10, began the task of putting in the first combat zone "Short Airfield for Tactical Support" (SATS). The team would have a {{Convert|4,000|ft|adj=on}} runway in place within 23 days and the first airplanes would land on June 1.<ref>{{cite book |chapter=Marine Aviation in Vietnam, 1962–1970 |author=Lieutenant General Keith B. McCutcheon, USMC |author-link=Keith B. McCutcheon |title=The U.S. Naval Institute on Marine Corps Aviation |editor-first=Thomas |editor-last=Cutler |editor-link=Thomas J. Cutler |publisher=[[Naval Institute Press]] |date=May 15, 2016 |pages=69–70}}</ref>
*A passenger bus with 40 people on board ran off of the road near [[Ixtapan de la Sal]] in Mexico, and plunged into the {{Convert|450|ft|adj=on}} deep [[Calderón River]] Ravine, killing most of the people on board.<ref>{{cite news |title=Fear 30 Dead as Mexico Bus Falls 450 Ft. |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |date=May 10, 1965 |page=1}}</ref>
*[[Luna 5]] was launched toward the Moon by the Soviet Union on a multi-stage rocket.<ref>{{cite news |title=Russia Sends Space Craft Toward Moon |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |date=May 10, 1965 |page=1}}</ref> The probe's [[Orientation (geometry)|attitude control system]] would fail on several occasions along the way.<ref name=Ulivi>{{cite book |first=Paolo |last=Ulivi |title=Lunar Exploration: Human Pioneers and Robotic Surveyors |publisher=Springer |year=2004 |page=57}}</ref>
*Pianist [[Vladimir Horowitz]] returned to the stage after a 12-year absence, performing a legendary concert in [[Carnegie Hall]] in New York.
*'''Born:''' [[Steve Yzerman]], Canadian National Hockey League player and later general manager for the [[Detroit Red Wings]], winner of the 1989 [[Ted Lindsay Award|Lester B. Pearson award]] for most valuable player in the regular season, the [[Conn Smythe Trophy]] in 1998 for most valuable player in the NHL playoff, inductee to the [[Hockey Hall of Fame]], and named in 2017 to the NHL's list of [[100 Greatest NHL Players]] league history; in [[Cranbrook, British Columbia]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nhl.com/player/steve-yzerman-8452578 |title=Steve Yzerman |website=NHL.com}}</ref>
*'''Died:''' 
**[[Ernesto de Martino]], 56, Italian anthropologist, historian, and philosopher.<ref>{{cite web |last=Geisshuesler |first=Flavio A. |author-link=Flavio Geisshuesler |title=The Life and Work of Ernesto De Martino |publisher=Brill |date=2021 |url=https://brill.com/display/title/59827?language=en |access-date=2023-10-01}}</ref> 
**[[Leopold Figl]], 62, [[Chancellor of Austria]] from 1945 to 1953, died from [[kidney cancer]].Thomas Chorherr, ''Große Österreicher'' (''Great Austrians'') (Vienna: Carl Ueberreuter, 1985)

==[[May 10]], 1965 (Monday)==
*[[Warren Buffett]], an investor from Omaha, Nebraska and a recent millionaire, completed three years of purchasing stock in the [[Berkshire Hathaway]] Company, a financially ailing textile manufacturer, achieved a controlling interest, and fired the former president, Seabury Stanton. Buffet's initial motivation was revenge against Stanton for an insult that arose when Stanton verbally offered to buy Berkshire's existing stock at the rate of $11.50 per share, but then sent a written agreement changing the terms to $11.375 per share. Over the next decades, Buffet would transform Berkshire Hathaway into a $500 billion [[Conglomerate (company)|conglomerate]] that now owns GEICO Insurance, Dairy Queen restaurants, Helzberg Diamonds, the Fruit of the Loom company and large shares of other corporations.<ref>{{cite book |first=Alice |last=Schroeder |author-link=Alice Schroeder |title=The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life |title-link=The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life |publisher=[[Bantam Books]] |year=2008 |isbn=978-0553805093}}</ref>
*[[The Rolling Stones]] began recording their signature song, "[[(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction]]" at [[Chess Studios]] in Chicago.<ref>Fred Bronson, ''The Billboard Book of Number One Hits'' (Billboard Books, 2003) p179</ref>
*'''Born:''' 
**[[Linda Evangelista]], Canadian model; in [[St. Catharines, Ontario]]
**[[Kiyoyuki Yanada]], Japanese voice actor; in [[Tokyo]]  (d. 2022)
*'''Died:''' 
**[[I. T. A. Wallace-Johnson]], 71, Sierra Leonean workers' leader, journalist, activist, and founder of the [[United National People's Party]], was killed in an auto accident while in Ghana.
**[[Hubertus van Mook]], 70, [[Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies]] from 1942 to 1948, prior to its independence as [[Indonesia]]

==[[May 11]], 1965 (Tuesday)==
*More than 10,000 people were killed over a nine-hour period as a powerful [[cyclone]] swept across East Pakistan (now [[Bangladesh]]).<ref>"Cyclone Hits East Pakistan", ''Holland (MI) Evening Sentinel'', May 11, 1965, p10</ref> The 100-mile-per-hour winds affected an area of 20,000 square miles,<ref>"Report Million Homeless After Pakistan Cyclone", ''Lebanon (PA) Daily News'', May 12, 1965, p1</ref> and caused its greatest damage in the [[Barisal District]].<ref>"Cyclone Toll In Thousands?", ''Ogden (UT) Standard-Examiner'', May 13, 1965, p1</ref> East Pakistan governor [[Abdul Monem Khan]] announced on May 19 that the death toll was 12,003 people.<ref>"12,033 Reported Killed by Cyclone in Pakistan", ''Chicago Tribune'', May 20, 1965, p2</ref>
*The [[National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty|National Trust]] officially launched [[Enterprise Neptune]], its long-term project to acquire or put under covenant a substantial part of the [[Wales|Welsh]], English and [[Northern Irish]] coastline.<ref>{{cite news|title=2M. Appeal To Save Coastline|work=[[The Times]]|date=8 March 1965|issue=56264|page=12}}</ref>
*'''Born:''' [[Monsour del Rosario]], Philippine taekwondo champion, action film star, and politician; in [[Manila]]

==[[May 12]], 1965 (Wednesday)==
*[[Luna 5]] impacted the Moon at 10:08&nbsp;p.m. Moscow time, three days after it was launched by the Soviet Union on a multi-stage rocket. However, a failure of its attitude control system only {{convert|40|km|miles}} from the Moon caused Luna 5 to land more than {{convert|700|km|miles}} from its intended target.<ref name=Ulivi/><ref>"Red Moon Shot Fails— Hits Surface Early; Misses Soft Landing", ''Chicago Tribune'', May 13, 1965, p1</ref>
*[[West Germany]] formally established diplomatic relations with [[Israel]]. Even before government spokesman Karl Gunther von Hase announced the agreement in [[Bonn]], three Arab nations (Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Iraq) announced that they were severing their ties to West Germany.<ref>"Israeli-Bonn Relations Established", ''Ottawa Journal'', May 13, 1965, p8</ref><ref>"Bonn-Israeli Link Forged; Arab Nations Break Ties", ''Tucson (AZ) Daily Citizen'', May 13, 1965, p42</ref>
*'''Born:'''
** [[Renée Simonsen]], Danish supermodel; in [[Aarhus]]
** [[Mark Thomas (sprinter)|Mark Thomas]], British sprinter; in [[Blackburn]], [[Lancashire]]

==[[May 13]], 1965 (Thursday)==
*[[Astronomer]]s [[Arno Penzias]] and [[Robert W. Wilson]] of Princeton University submitted their paper to ''[[The Astrophysical Journal]]'', describing their discovery at the Bell Telephone Laboratories of [[cosmic microwave background radiation]] as a confirmation of the "[[Big Bang]]" theory of the origin of the universe.<ref>{{cite book |first1=P. James E. |last1=Peebles |author1-link=Jim Peebles |display-authors=etal |title=Finding the Big Bang |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |year=2009 |page=172}}</ref> As Penzias would describe it later, ''[[New York Times]]'' science writer [[Walter Sullivan (journalist)|Walter Sullivan]] "apparently had a 'mole' in ''The Astrophysical Journal'' editorial office", and on May 21, a Sullivan story with the headline "Signals Imply a 'Big Bang' Universe" would appear on the front page of the ''Times''.<ref>{{cite book |first=Marcus |last=Chown |author-link=Marcus Chown |title=Afterglow of Creation: From the Fireball to the Discovery of Cosmic Ripples |publisher=[[University Science Books]] |year=1996 |page=87}}</ref> Penzias and Wilson, who had made their observations from a hilltop station in [[Holmdel, New Jersey]], would share the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] in 1978 for their discovery.
*A West German [[court of appeals]] condemned the behavior of ex-defense minister [[Franz Josef Strauss]], and refused to open trial against magazine proprietor [[Rudolf Augstein]] and the magazine's military expert Conrad Ahlers,<ref>{{cite news |title=A scandal rocks the young federal republic |url=http://www.dw.de/a-scandal-rocks-the-young-federal-republic/a-16295037 |access-date=26 August 2013 |newspaper=[[Deutsche Welle]] |date=10 October 2012 |first1=Michael |last1=Marek |first2=Birgit |last2=Görtz}}</ref> ruling that during the [[Spiegel affair|''Spiegel'' affair]] Strauss had exceeded his authority and committed ''Freiheitsberaubung'' (deprivation of personal freedom). However, because it was found that he operated under the "belief of acting lawfully" (''Verbotsirrtum''), he was exempted from punishment.
*Former First Lady [[Jacqueline Kennedy]] made her first public appearances since the funeral of President John F. Kennedy on November 25, 1963. Accompanied by her family in London, Mrs. Kennedy took her daughter and son to witness the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace in London.<ref>{{cite news |title=Palace Show Has new Star: Mrs. Kennedy |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |date=May 14, 1965 |page=5}}</ref>
*The Wet Mock Simulated Launch of [[Gemini 4]] was completed.<ref name="Grimwood 2">{{Source attribution}} {{cite book |title=Project Gemini Technology and Operations - A Chronology |chapter=PART III (A) Flight Tests January 1965 through December 1965 |last1=Grimwood |first1=James M. |last2=Hacker |first2=Barton C. |last3=Vorzimmer |first3=Peter J. |series=NASA Special Publication-4002 |chapter-url=https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4002/p3a.htm |publisher=[[NASA]] |access-date=4 March 2023}}</ref>
*'''Born:''' 
**[[José Antonio Delgado]], Venezuelan mountaineer and paraglider; in [[Caracas]] (died of hypothermia, 2006)
**[[Tim Chapman|Tim "Youngblood" Chapman]], American bounty hunter and co-star of ''[[Dog the Bounty Hunter]]''; in [[Ventura, California]]
**[[Hikari Ōta]], Japanese television comedian; in [[Kamifukuoka]], [[Saitama Prefecture]]
*'''Died:''' [[Dick Wantz]], 25, American baseball pitcher who had appeared in his first and only major league game (for the [[1965 California Angels season|California Angels]]) on April 13<ref>"Tribe Ruins Angel Coming Out Party— Only 11,278 See Jittery Cherubs Drop Season Opener, 7-1" ,''Los Angeles Times'', by John Ball, April 14, 1965, p.II-1</ref> died one day after undergoing surgery for a [[brain tumor]].<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times/63247128/ "Angels Dick Wantz Succumbs to Brain Tumor"], ''Los Angeles Times'', May 15, 1965, p.II-1</ref>

==[[May 14]], 1965 (Friday)==
*The first 270 members of the "Inter-American Peace Force" arrived in the Dominican Republic on behalf of the Organization of American States (OAS). The units consisted of 250 soldiers from the Army of the [[Honduras]], and 20 policemen from [[Costa Rica]], which did not have an army.<ref>"OAS Force Due to Arrive Today", ''Chicago Tribune'', May 13, 1965, p1</ref>
*'''Born:''' [[Eoin Colfer]], Irish children's author; in [[Wexford]]
*'''Died:''' 
**[[Frances Perkins]], 85, U.S. Secretary of Labor for 12 years (1933–1945) and the first woman to serve as a member of the U.S. President's cabinet.
**[[Belva Gaertner]], 80, American woman who was acquitted of murdering her lover Walter Law in a 1924 trial

==[[May 15]], 1965 (Saturday)==
*An [[avalanche]] came down from West Germany's highest mountain, the [[Zugspitze]], onto the Hotel Schneefernerhaus near [[Garmisch-Partenkirchen]], burying dozens of skiers and tourists.<ref>{{cite news |title=11 Are Killed in Avalanche at Alpine Spa |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |date=May 16, 1965 |page=1}}</ref> Until missing persons could be located, officials feared that as many as 90 people had been killed;<ref>{{cite news |title=600 in Search for Victims of Bavarian Slide— Death Toll May Hit 90 at Resort |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |date=May 17, 1965 |page=1A-2}}</ref> ultimately, the death toll was 10.<ref>{{cite news |title=10th Avalanche Victim Found |newspaper=[[Corpus Christi Caller-Times]] |location=[[Corpus Christi, Texas]] |date=May 20, 1965 |page=10-D}}</ref> The resort was in its final week of the 1964–1965 season and temperatures were above {{convert|16|C|F}} degrees when melting snow loosened and triggered the disaster.
*President Johnson ordered the United States Mint to resume production of [[Dollar coin (United States)|silver dollars]] for the first time since 1935, with directions that 45 million new coins would be minted and that "they will be distributed in the areas of the country where the silver dollar has traditionally been used as a medium of exchange".<ref>{{cite news |title=Mint to Roll out 45 Million Cartwheels |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |date=May 16, 1965 |page=22}}</ref> However, because of a shortage of silver and uncertainty about the metal composition, dollar coins would not be reintroduced until 1971.
*Qualification of the [[Gemini spacesuit#G3C and G4C suits|G4C]] [[Extravehicular activity|extravehicular]] suit was completed. This suit was basically the same as the [[Gemini spacesuit#G3C and G4C suits|G3C suit]] except for modifications which included a redundant zipper closure, two over-visors for visual and physical protection, automatic locking ventilation settings, and a heavier cover layer incorporating thermal and [[micrometeoroid]] protection. Six G4C suits would be at the launch site for the Gemini 4 flight crews by the end of May.<ref name="Grimwood 2"/>
*New Zealand's Prime Minister [[Keith Holyoake]] opened the [[Benmore Dam]] on South Island.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.odt.co.nz/the-regions/north-otago/29502/benmore-gets-more-with-first-full-rebuild |title=Benmore gets more with first full rebuild |last=Bruce |first=David |date=30 October 2008 |newspaper=[[Otago Daily Times]] |access-date=30 October 2008}}</ref>

==[[May 16]], 1965 (Sunday)==
*While waiting to take off on a mission, a [[B-57B Canberra]] jet bomber exploded on the ground at [[Bien Hoa Air Base]], Vietnam. This set off a chain of secondary explosions that destroyed 21 other airplanes at the base, killed 27 U.S. Air Force personnel, and injured 99 people.<ref>{{cite news |title=Blast Toll Set At 27 |journal=Phoenix Gazette |date=May 21, 1965 |page=8}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=21 KILLED IN VIET BLASTS— 22 Aircraft Destroyed; 35 GIs Hurt |journal=Chicago Tribune |date=May 16, 1965 |page=1}}</ref> Among the dead was 34-year-old USAF Major Robert G. Bell, who in 1959 had been one of the 32 finalists for [[NASA Astronaut Group 1]] that eventually was narrowed to the "[[Mercury Seven]]".<ref name="Burgess">{{cite book |last=Burgess |first=Colin |author-link=Colin Burgess (author) |title=Selecting the Mercury Seven: The Search for America's First Astronauts |publisher=[[Springer Science+Business Media]] |year=2011 |location=[[Chichester]], UK |pages=67–72 |isbn=978-1-4419-8404-3}}</ref> The initial explosion happened at about 8:25 in the morning, and a serviceman at the scene would write later that the series of explosions that followed (many of them from bombs with delayed fuses) "lasted about three hours... Napalm, 500 lb. and 700 lb. demolition bombs, frag bombs and 50 caliber ammunition went off like Chinese fireworks."<ref>{{cite news |title=Tucsonian Writes of Tragedy at Bien Hoa |journal=Tucson (AZ) Daily Citizen |date=May 20, 1965 |page=1}}</ref> USAF Major General Joseph H. Moore estimated that the disaster destroyed 10 percent of the B-57 bombers that comprised the American nuclear fleet.<ref>{{cite news |title=Probe Viet Air Base Blast— 26 Yanks Die; 102 Hurt; 22 Planes Burn |journal=Chicago Tribune |date=May 17, 1965 |page=1}}</ref> Sabotage was ruled out, and the accident was eventually traced to a loose turbine on the B-57B hitting the fuse of an armed {{Convert|500|lb|adj=on}} bomb.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.skyraider.org/skyassn/memberpics/hilliard/hilliard.htm |title=Capt Shelley Hilliard, USAF 602nd ACS, BienHoa, Oct,1964-Jun,1965 |publisher=A-1 Skyraider Association |access-date=May 15, 2020}}</ref>
*Major General Wladislaw Tykocinski of the Army of Poland, the senior foreign diplomat in West Berlin, asked the United States to grant him political asylum. Tykocinski, who left his wife and child behind in East Berlin, approached an American serviceman, 1st Sgt. Marion H. Tomlinson, at a delicatessen.<ref>{{cite news |title=Ranking Polish Diplomat Defects to U.S.— He Headed Mission in West Berlin |journal=Chicago Tribune |date=May 17, 1965 |page=3}}</ref> 
*U.S. Army Lt. General Marshall S. Carter, formerly the deputy director of the CIA, became the new director of the National Security Agency, replacing USAF Lt. General Gordon A. Blake.<ref>{{cite news |title=U.S. Security Post Goes to Ex-CIA Aide |journal=Chicago Tribune |date=May 17, 1965 |page=3}}</ref>
*'''Born:'''
**[[Krist Novoselic]], American bass guitarist for the grunge rock band [[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]]; in [[Compton, California]]
**[[Jason (comics)|Jason]] (pen name for John Arne Sæterøy), Norwegian cartoonist; in [[Molde Municipality|Molde]]
*'''Died:''' [[Wing Luke]], 40, Chinese-American lawyer and politician, was killed in a plane crash.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.historylink.org/File/2047 |last=Takami |first=David |title=Luke, Wing (1925-1965) |encyclopedia=[[HistoryLink]] |date=January 25, 1999 |access-date=July 22, 2022}}</ref>

==[[May 17]], 1965 (Monday)==
*Gasoline stations affiliated with the [[Cities Service Company]] changed their signs to reflect the new name, "[[CITGO]]", as well as a new symbol and new colors, as part of a $20,000,000 marketing changeover.<ref>{{cite news |title=Oil Company Plans Change in Marketing |newspaper=[[Phoenix Gazette]] |date=May 7, 1965 |page=43}}</ref> Through a spokesman, the Oklahoma-based oil producer (later acquired as a subsidiary of [[Petróleos de Venezuela]]) announced that "The distance from which the new CITGO emblem and color scheme can be seen is twice that of the previous green and white Cities Service signs and stations." Stanley D. Breitweiser went on to say that the name had been chosen from "more than 80,000 possible choices" generated by a computer programmed to create new five-letter words that began with "C", and that the logo, colors and name had been developed with the assistance of the design firm of Lippincott and Marguiles. He explained that "Its first portion, CIT, is derived from Cities Service. GO implies the company's power, energy and progressive nature."<ref>{{cite news |title=Cities Service Makes Change In Its Name |newspaper=Daily Times-News |location=[[Burlington, North Carolina]] |date=May 8, 1965 |page=5B}}</ref>
*An underground explosion at [[Cambrian Colliery]] in [[Clydach Vale]], Wales, killed 31 men and injured another 13.<ref>{{cite news |title=Welsh Coal Mine Blast Fatal to 31 |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |date=May 18, 1965 |page=3}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Death Roll, Cambrian Colliery, Explosion, 1965 |first=Bill |last=Richards |work=Welsh Coal Mines |url=http://www.welshcoalmines.co.uk/deathrolls/Cambrian.htm |access-date=2010-10-14}}</ref> The victims had been laboring {{Convert|850|ft}} underground, in a space only {{Convert|32|in}} high, and had no chance to evacuate; those who died "were identified by the numbers on their lamps".<ref>{{cite book |first=Ben |last=Curtis |title=The South Wales Miners: 1964–1985 |publisher=[[University of Wales Press]] |year=2013 |page=69}}</ref><ref name=Nash>{{cite book |first=Jay Robert |last=Nash |author-link=Jay Robert Nash |title=Darkest Hours |publisher=[[Rowman & Littlefield]] |year=1976}}</ref>
*'''Born:''' 
**[[Trent Reznor]], American singer and songwriter and founder of the industrial rock band [[Nine Inch Nails]]; in [[New Castle, Pennsylvania]]
**[[Hello Kitty murder case#Kidnapping|Chan Man-lok]], [[Wo Shing Wo]] triad member who was one of the perpetrators in the infamous [[Hello Kitty murder case]]{{cn|date=April 2024}}

==[[May 18]], 1965 (Tuesday)==
*President Johnson formally launched [[Head Start (program)|Project Head Start]], a $112,000,000 program to give summertime education to more than half a million American preschool age children from underprivileged families. According to the announcement from the White House, "the first 1,676 projects... at 9,508 centers will reach 375,842 boys and girls at a cost of $65,686,741", with the vast majority of the money coming from federal grants.<ref>{{cite news |title=Project 'Head Start' Under Way Over U.S. |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |date=May 19, 1965 |page=12}}</ref>
*[[Dolby Laboratories]] was founded in [[London]] by American inventor [[Ray Dolby]], who invented the [[Dolby noise-reduction system]] and other innovations in audio recording technology.<ref>{{cite news |title=Dolby seeks to remake moviegoing experience |first=Benny |last=Evangelista |newspaper=[[San Francisco Chronicle]] |date=May 18, 2015 |page=A1}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.yourtechstory.com/2019/12/17/ray-dolby-a-story-of-dolby-laboratories-founder-who-changed-the-audio-industry/ |title=Ray Dolby: A Story Of Dolby Laboratories Founder Who Changed The Audio Industry |author=Jayshri |website=YourTechHistory.com |date=December 17, 2019}}</ref>
*'''Died:''' [[Eli Cohen]], 40, Israeli spy, was executed in public in Syria. With the verdict of the court attached to his shirt, Cohen was taken to a gallows at the Garden of Martyrs Square in [[Damascus]] and hanged. His body remained on display for six hours before it was taken down.<ref>{{cite news |title=Syria Hangs Elie Cohen as Israeli Spy |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |date=May 18, 1965 |page=12}}</ref>

==[[May 19]], 1965 (Wednesday)==
*American inventor [[Paul C. Fisher]] filed for the patent on the "Anti-gravity pen", known also as the "[[space pen]]", which used "a pressurized ink supply which enables the pen to write when the force of gravity acts against the flow of ink in the ink cartridge" in order for astronauts to write data observations in a weightless environment.<ref>[https://patents.google.com/patent/US3285228 "Anti-gravity pen" US 3285228 A]</ref> Although there is an [[urban legend]] that NASA spent millions of dollars to develop an unnecessary replacement to a pencil, Fisher was privately funded and earned his costs back when both the American and [[Soviet space program]]s began purchasing pens, which were necessary because of the hazards of broken pencil tips, graphite dust, and flammable wood; the pens themselves were sold for six dollars apiece.<ref>{{cite book |first=Robert B |last=Durham |title=Modern Folklore |publisher=[[Lulu.com]] |year=2015 |page=388}}</ref> U.S. Patent Number 3,285,228 would be granted on November 15, 1966.
*A single [[sounding rocket]] successfully sent aloft a "mother-daughter" experiment to transmit radio signals between two instrument packages that parted in flight and climbed separately through the [[ionosphere]]. The experiment, employing a technique developed by scientists of [[Penn State University]], was launched at 4:11&nbsp;p.m. EDT by a four-stage Jevelin (ARGO D0-4) from the [[National Aeronautics and Space Administration]]'s [[Wallops Island Station]], [[Wallops Island]], [[Virginia]].
[[File:HHMU.jpg|thumb|right|The Hand-Held maneuvering unit]]
*Qualification of all extravehicular equipment planned for the Gemini 4 mission, including the ventilation control module, the extravehicular umbilical assembly, and the [[hand-held maneuvering unit]], was completed. The flight hardware was at the launch site ready for flight at the end of May.<ref name="Grimwood 2"/>
*The roof of the Key Food Supermarket in Brooklyn, New York, collapsed without warning upon the area closest to the checkout lines, injuring 25 employees and shoppers.<ref>{{cite news |title=Roof Falls on Supermarket and Injures 25 |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |date=May 20, 1965 |page=1}}</ref>

==[[May 20]], 1965 (Thursday)==
*[[PIA Flight 705|Pakistan International Airlines Flight 705]], a Boeing 720 airliner with 127 people on board, crashed in a desert area in [[Egypt]] as it was approaching the [[Cairo]] airport on arrival from [[Dhahran]], [[Saudi Arabia]]. All 13 members of the crew and 121 of the passengers were killed when the plane came in too low during its approach, and impacted about six miles south of Cairo.<ref>[https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19650520-0 Aviation-Safety.net]</ref><ref>"Plane Crashes; 121 Aboard— Liner Falls Approaching Egypt Port", ''Chicago Tribune'', May 20, 1965, p1</ref> The plane was making the inaugural flight in PIA's new service from [[Karachi]] to [[London]], and nearly all of the victims had been invited as guests, including 21 members of the Pakistani press who were assigned to cover the story.<ref>"Pakistani Jet Crashes Near Cairo; 121 Die", ''Chicago Tribune'', May 21, 1965, p2-19</ref>
*The [[De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter]] made its first flight.
*'''Born:''' [[Eric Norris]], American former stock car racing driver and stuntman; in [[Redondo Beach, California]], son of actor and martial arts champion [[Chuck Norris]]<ref>{{cite news|last=Wade|first=Susan|date=July 13, 1999|title=Chuck Norris' Racing Son Isn't Just A Chop Off The Engine Block|newspaper=[[The Seattle Times]]|url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19990713/2971485/chuck-norris-racing-son-isnt-just-a-chop-off-the-engine-block|access-date=November 28, 2016}}</ref>

==[[May 21]], 1965 (Friday)==
*Pitcher [[Ron Herbel]] of the [[San Francisco Giants]], described by one author as the player who "deserved to be the poster child for the designated hitter rule", got his first hit in a major league baseball game, after going hitless in his first 54 at bats. Herbel, who pitched the Giants to an 8–1 win over the [[Houston Astros]], was playing his first indoor game, at the Astrodome.<ref>"'Slugger' Herbel Leads S.F. With First Hit Of Career", ''Charleston (WV) Daily Mail'', May 22, 1965, p10</ref> He would finish his career in 1971 with the lowest batting average (.029) of any career major leaguer, as well as a career ERA of 3.83.
*The largest ever [[teach-in]] began at [[Berkeley, California]], attended by 30,000 people who gathered at the University of California campus for "Vietnam Day". "This brilliantly provocative event”, an historian would observe later, "organized by the Vietnam Day Committee (VDC), a collection of students and protesters disenchanted with liberal America and frightened by the South-East Asian conflict, stunned the University authorities and caused concern in Washington."<ref>Gerard J. DeGroot, ''Student Protest: The Sixties and After'' (Routledge, 2014)</ref>

==[[May 22]], 1965 (Saturday)==
*The new sport of [[skateboarding]] received its first wide recognition as the [[Skateboarding#1940s–1960s|First Annual National Skateboard Championships]] were conducted, in [[Anaheim, California]], and videotaped for nationwide broadcast on ''[[ABC's Wide World of Sports]]'' the following Saturday.<ref>Ben Marcus, ''The Skateboard: The Good, the Rad, and the Gnarly'' (MVP Books, 2011) p91</ref><ref>"ABC to Televise National Skateboard Playoffs", by Cynthia Lowrey, AP report in ''The Evening Times'' (Sayre PA), May 21, 1965, p7</ref> The two-day event, which attracted contestants "from as far away as Japan, Mexico, New York, Texas and Washington" featured a downhill and a flatland slalom, trick performances, and a figure-eight skating event, and took place at La Palma Stadium in Anaheim.<ref>"Skateboard Aces Vying", by Ken Knight, ''Independent Press-Telegram'' (Long Beach CA), May 23, 1965, p12</ref>
*'''Born:''' [[Venus Xtravaganza]] (stage name for Venus Pellagatti), American transgender performer; in [[Jersey City, New Jersey]] (murdered, 1988)<ref name="med">{{cite web |url=https://medium.com/th-ink/justice-for-venus-xtravaganza-1cbd45bc504a |title=Justice for Venus Xtravaganza |last=Iovannone |first=Jeffry J. |date=2018-07-12 |website= [[Medium (website)|Medium]] |publisher=A Medium Corporation |access-date=2019-05-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190531231428/https://medium.com/th-ink/justice-for-venus-xtravaganza-1cbd45bc504a |archive-date=2019-05-31 |url-status=live}}</ref>
*'''Died:''' 
**[[Frans-H. van den Dungen|Frans-Henri van den Dungen]], 66, Belgian physicist and co-author, in 1926, with Ernest De Donder, of findings that "the gravitational interaction in general relativity might be described by an integral equation of the Fredholm type (in a generalized space due to the number of degrees of freedom of the system of particles considered), whose solution seemed to imply a periodic phenomenon that exhibited similarity to the undulatory behaviour of microscopic particles in Schrödinger's wave mechanics."<ref>[[Jagdish Mehra]] and [[Helmut Rechenberg]], ''The Historical Development of Quantum Theory'' (Springer, 2001) p816</ref>
**[[Christopher Stone (broadcaster)|Christopher Stone]], 72, British broadcaster who, in 1927, became the first [[disc jockey]] when he hosted a program for BBC radio for introducing and playing songs on the air.

==[[May 23]], 1965 (Sunday)==
*In [[1965 Belgian general election|Belgium's parliamentary election]], Prime Minister [[Theo Lefevre]]'s coalition of [[Christian Social Party (Belgium, defunct)|Christian Socialists]] and [[Belgian Socialist Party|Belgian Socialists]] lost 39 seats in the 212 seat [[Belgian Chamber of Representatives|Chamber of Representatives]]. Formerly holding 180 seats, the coalition dropped to 141 seats, one fewer than the 142 necessary for a two-thirds majority in the Chamber that would be required for any constitutional changes. Lefebvre presented his resignation to King Baudouin the next day.<ref>"Belgian Premier Resigns After Loss", ''Phoenix Gazette'', May 24, 1965, p18</ref><ref>[[Dieter Nohlen|Nohlen, D]] & Stöver, P (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p289 {{ISBN|978-3-8329-5609-7}}</ref>
*[[Franz Jonas]] won a narrow victory in a bitter race for the new [[President of Austria]], defeating former Chancellor [[Alfons Gorbach]] by a margin of 2,324,474 to 2,260,992. Mayor of [[Vienna]] since 1951, Jonas was notable for having dropped out of school to become an apprentice typesetter, and for his fluency in the artificial language of [[Esperanto]]. As with his predecessor, [[Adolf Schärf]], Jonas would pass away in his second term.<ref>"Austria", in ''Heads of States and Governments Since 1945'', Harris M. Lentz, ed. (Routledge, 2014) p57</ref><ref>"Austria Names New President", ''Kansas City Times'', May 24, 1965, p1</ref>
*The Space Science Board of the [[National Academy of Sciences]] recommended to NASA that future astronauts who walked on the [[Moon]] should be kept under [[quarantine]] for at least three weeks after their return, just in case there were germs present on the lunar surface. The period was picked "because it exceeded the incubation of most terrestrial germs", and as "a compromise between those who thought a quarantine was unnecessary and those who argued for many months".<ref>David Harland, ''The First Men on the Moon: The Story of Apollo 11'' (Springer, 2007) p326</ref> The crew of [[Apollo 11]], lunar astronauts would be kept under a quarantine upon their return and until August 10, 1969.<ref>[https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4029/Apollo_11i_Timeline.htm "Apollo 11 Timeline"], NASA.gov</ref>
*Eight members of the crew of the Norwegian tanker MV ''Heimvard'' were killed, as 22 injured, when the vessel exploded and burned at [[Muroran]] in [[Japan]]'s [[Hokkaido Prefecture]], after it rammed into a pier. The force of the collision caused a kerosene stove to tip over, causing a fire that spread to the tanker's cargo of oil. Two men from a Japanese tugboat adjacent to the ''Heimvard'' were missing after the accident. As the ship burned, other Japanese tugboats pulled the tanker out to sea and prevented the flames from spreading to the 65 oil storage tanks on the coast.<ref>"Tanker Burns Near Tanks", ''San Antonio Express'', May 24, 1965, p2</ref><ref name=Times240565>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=3 Die in Blazing Tanker |date=24 May 1965 |page=8 |issue=56329 |column=F }}</ref>
*The Inter-American Peacekeeping Force was deployed in the Dominican Republic to replace the American troops that had been in the country since April 30. The force, sent by the OAS, would reach as many as 8,200 people and begin withdrawing on [[June 1966|June 28, 1966]], completing its mission by October.<ref>"Inter-American Peacekeeping Force", in ''An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Conflict and Conflict Resolution, 1945–1996'', John E. Jessup, ed. (Greenwood Publishing, 1998) p315</ref> During the occupation, the 270 troops already sent by Honduras and Costa Rica would be joined by 1,130 from Brazil, 184 from Paraguay, 160 from Nicaragua, and three staff officers from El Salvador.<ref>Mônica Herz, ''The Organization of American States (OAS): Global Governance Away From the Media'' (Taylor & Francis, 2011) p100</ref>
*'''Born:'''
**[[Manolo Sanchís]], Spanish soccer football player for [[Real Madrid C.F.|Real Madrid]] and for the Spanish National Team; in [[Madrid]]
**[[Melissa McBride]], American television and film actress known for ''[[The Walking Dead (TV series)|The Walking Dead]]'' and its sequels; in [[Lexington, Kentucky]]<ref>"For the Record", ''The Lexington (KY) Leader'', May 24, 1965, p.29</ref>
**[[Kappei Yamaguchi]], Japanese voice actor; in [[Fukuoka]]
*'''Died:''' 
**[[David Smith (sculptor)|David Smith]], 59, American abstract sculptor, was killed in an auto accident in [[Shaftsbury, Vermont]], while on his way to attend the opening of an art exhibit at [[Bennington College]].<ref>"Accident Kills Sculptor Here", ''Bennington (VT) Banner'', May 24, 1965, p1</ref>
**[[Earl Webb]], 67, American baseball player whose record for most [[Double (baseball)|doubles]] in a season — 67 in 1931 — remains a Major League Baseball record.

==[[May 24]], 1965 (Monday)==
*[[Subandrio]], the [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Indonesia)|Foreign Minister of Indonesia]] and chief of its Intelligence Bureau, told a political rally that there was a "Council of Generals" that was plotting to overthrow President [[Sukarno]] and the Indonesian government as part of a conspiracy jointly funded by the United States and the United Kingdom. In response to the allegations of the conspiracy, which Subandrio accepted as true without investigation, Subandrio persuaded the government to mobilize "progressive and revolutionary" officers against the fictitious Council.<ref>Victor M. Fic, ''Anatomy of the Jakarta Coup, October 1, 1965: The Collusion with China which Destroyed the Army Command, President Sukarno and the Communist Party of Indonesia'' (Yayasan Obor Indonesia, 2005) p6</ref>
*The [[United Kingdom]] officially adopted the [[metric system]] of weights and measures, to be phased in over a ten-year period. [[Douglas Jay]], the President of the [[Board of Trade]], made the announcement to the press, and said that it would aid British companies trading with the rest of Europe.<ref>"Switch by Industry to Metric— British System in 10 Years", ''Glasgow Herald'', May 25, 1965, p1</ref><ref>"Britain to Switch to Metric System", ''Kansas City Star'', May 24, 1965, p2</ref>
*'''Born:''' 
**[[Shinichirō Watanabe]], Japanese film director, producer, and screenwriter; in [[Kyoto]]
**[[John C. Reilly]], American actor and comedian; in [[Chicago]]
*'''Died:'''
**[[Sonny Boy Williamson II]] (stage name for Aleck Miller), 52, American blues musician, was found dead from a heart attack at his home in [[Helena, Arkansas]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=1798|last=Cochoran|first=Robert|title='Sonny Boy' Williamson II|encyclopedia=[[Encyclopedia of Arkansas]]|access-date=July 11, 2014}}</ref>
**[[Hans Jüttner]], 71, German former SS leader

==[[May 25]], 1965 (Tuesday)==
[[File:Muhammad Ali standing over Sonny Liston.jpg|thumb|alt=Muhammad Ali standing over Sonny Liston|Muhammad Ali standing over Sonny Liston]]
*World heavyweight boxing champion [[Muhammad Ali]] and the man whom he had beaten for the title in 1964, former champion [[Sonny Liston]], faced each other [[Muhammad Ali vs. Sonny Liston|in a much-anticipated rematch]] in [[Lewiston, Maine]].<ref>"Clay, Liston in Showdown Tonight— {{sic|It|'s|nolink=y}} Most Unusual Battle Since John L. Sullivan!", by Wilfrid Smith, ''Chicago Tribune'', May 25, 1965, p3-1; "Muhammad Ali Changes Tactics— Keeps Quiet", ''Dover (OH) Daily Reporter'', May 25, 1965, p16 [at the time, most newspapers refused to recognize Ali's adoption of a Muslim name the year before, and continued to refer to Ali by his former name of Cassius Clay]</ref> The match, seen by 4,280 in the small [[Androscoggin Bank Colisée|Central Maine Youth Center]], started at 9:30&nbsp;p.m. and was shown in theaters on closed-circuit television, and heard on the radio by millions of people. Despite all the hype, the fight was over in only 60 seconds into the first round. Ali struck Liston with what would become known as the "[[Muhammad Ali versus Sonny Liston|Phantom Punch]]", which few of the people watching saw on television because of the camera angle; "For many", a reporter would write the next day, "Liston seemed to fall without being hit."<ref>[http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1965/05/26/page/1/ "CLAY VICTOR IN 60 SECONDS"] — Keeps Title; Fans Boo as Liston Falls", by Wilfrid Smith, ''Chicago Tribune'', May 25, 1965, p1</ref><ref>"Ali Calls for Patterson After Liston Kayo", ''Fresno (CA) Bee'', May 26, 1965, p1-B</ref> As Liston lay on the canvas, the referee, former boxing champion [[Jersey Joe Walcott]], forgot to begin counting, and admitted later, "I did not count out Liston. I was told that he was on the floor 12 seconds.  Then I awarded the knockout."<ref>"Too Busy to Get Count: Joe Walcott",  ''Chicago Tribune'', May 26, 1965, p3-1</ref> Liston got back up, Ali and Liston began fighting again, and Walcott separated the two men and stopped the bout.
*'''Born:''' [[Yahya Jammeh]], [[President of the Gambia]] from 1994 to 2017; in [[Kanilai]]
*'''Died:''' [[Ethel du Pont]], 49, American heiress, hanged herself.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Jones|first1=David R.|title=Ethel du Pont, Heiress, Is Apparent Suicide at Suburban Detroit Home|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1965/05/26/101550607.html?pageNumber=1|accessdate=13 August 2016|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=May 26, 1965}}</ref>

==[[May 26]], 1965 (Wednesday)==
*The United States Senate passed an amended version of the [[Voting Rights Act of 1965]], by a 77–19 margin. Voting against the bill were 17 Democrats and two Republicans, all from the southern United States.<ref>{{cite book |first=Geoffrey |last=Kabaservice |title=Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, From Eisenhower to the Tea Party |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |year=2012 |page=423}}</ref> An amendment was added in order to get the bill to pass, avoiding a prohibition of the [[poll tax]]; as one author would note later "The compromise amendment... stated that Congress was against the use of poll taxes as a condition for voting, but it did not actually ban the use of the taxes."<ref>{{cite book |first=Nina M. |last=Moore |title=Governing Race: Policy, Process, and the Politics of Race |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |year=2000 |page=77}}</ref>
*After a week of civil warfare arising from a strike of tin miners, the offices of [[President of Bolivia|co-presidents of Bolivia]] were created,<ref>{{cite news |title=Junta Names Copresident of Bolivia |newspaper=Fresno Bee |location=Fresno, California |date=May 26, 1965 |page=1}}</ref> with President [[René Barrientos]] sharing power equally with General [[Alfredo Ovando Candía]] until new civilian presidential elections could be arranged. Barrientos would resign on January 2 to run in the campaign.<ref>{{cite book |chapter=Bolivia |title=Heads of States and Governments Since 1945 |editor-first=Harris M. |editor-last=Lentz |publisher=Routledge |year=2014 |page=96}}</ref>
*The new [[SOLAS Convention]] (International Convention for the '''S'''afety '''o'''f '''L'''ife '''a'''t '''S'''ea), opened for signing in 1960, entered into force worldwide.<ref>{{cite book |title=United States Treaties and Other International Agreements |volume=16 |chapter=Part 1 |publisher=[[U.S. Department of State]] |year=1966 |page=573}}</ref>

==[[May 27]], 1965 (Thursday)==
*[[New Zealand]] Prime Minister [[Keith Holyoake]] announced in Parliament that 120 troops from the [[16th Field Regiment, Royal New Zealand Artillery]] would become the first of that nation's troops to be committed to the [[Vietnam War]]. "Nothing will give Australian soldiers more satisfaction than to be in company with troops from New Zealand”, Holyoake told the opening session of Parliament in [[Wellington]].<ref>{{cite news |title=N.Z. WILL SEND GUNS, MEN TO VIETNAM |newspaper=The Age |location=Melbourne |date=May 28, 1965 |page=1}}</ref>
*Playing on its home field, [[Inter Milan]] of Italy defeated [[S.L. Benfica]] of Portugal, 1–0, before a crowd of 80,000 fans at the [[San Siro]] stadium to win its second consecutive [[1965 European Cup Final|European Cup]] in soccer football. Because of heavy rains that fell before the game, the field was slippery. The lone goal was made by [[Jair da Costa]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Internazionale Retain Cup |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |date=May 28, 1965 |page=6}}</ref>
*The first Australian troops in the [[Vietnam War]] departed on [[HMAS Sydney (R17)|HMAS ''Sydney'']], with the [[1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment]] being in the original group.<ref>{{cite news |title=BATTALION ON WAY TO VIETNAM; SAIL TODAY— Some to fly |newspaper=[[The Age]] |location=[[Melbourne]] |date=May 27, 1965 |page=1}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Garrie |last=Hutchinson |title=Pilgrimage: A Traveller's Guide to Australia's Battlefields |publisher=[[Black Inc.]] |year=2006 |page=399}}</ref>
*[[Indonesia–Malaysia Confrontation|The ''Konfrontasi'' between Indonesia and Malaysia]] continued with the start of the [[Battle of Sungei Koemba]], an ambush launched by the [[3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment]] (3 RAR), along the Sungei Koemba river in [[Kalimantan]], the Indonesian side of the island of [[Borneo]].<ref>{{cite book |title=The Encyclopaedia of Australia's Battles |editor-first=Chris |editor-last=Coulthard-Clark |publisher=[[Allen & Unwin]] |year=2001}}</ref>
*'''Born:''' [[Todd Bridges]], American television actor best known for ''[[Diff'rent Strokes]]''; in [[San Francisco]]
*'''Died:''' [[Antonio Ligabue]], 65, Italian [[Naïve art]]ist

==[[May 28]], 1965 (Friday)==
*In India, [[1965 Dhanbad coal mine disaster|An explosion in a coal mine killed 375 miners]] in [[Dhanbad]] in the [[Bihar]] state.<ref>[http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/mine-explosion-kills-hundreds-in-india "Mine explosion kills hundreds in India"], "This Day in History", History.com</ref><ref>"Mine Explosion Kills 200, Traps 200 More", ''Fresno (CA) Bee'', May 28, 1965, p1</ref> The cause was later attributed to an excess of coal dust from blasting an ignition by an electrical spark, which caused a tremendous explosion that killed hundreds of people underground, and more than 100 who were on the surface.<ref name=Nash/> 
*[[House of Councillors (Japan)|Japan's House of Councillors]] voted 121 to 69 to pass the [[Land reforms by country#Japan|Farmland Reward Bill]] that had already cleared the [[House of Representatives (Japan)|House of Representatives]], to compensate former landowners who had lost their property in the reforms that followed World War II. Law 121, 1965 would take effect on June 3.<ref>Haruhiro Fukui, ''Party in Power: The Japanese Liberal-Democrats and Policy-making'' (University of California Press, 1970) p173</ref>
*'''Born:''' [[Mary Coughlan (politician)|Mary Coughlan]], Irish [[Fianna Fáil]] politician who was [[Tánaiste]] (deputy prime minister) from 2008 to 2011; in [[Donegal (town)|Donegal]]
*'''Died:''' [[P. R. Stephensen]], 63, Australian left-wing and later right-wing political activist, former Communist Party member who co-founded the Fascist [[Australia First Movement]] in 1941<ref>{{cite book|last = Munro|first = Craig|title = Stephensen, Percy Reginald (1901 - 1965)|publisher = [[Melbourne University Press]]|year = 2000|url = http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120084b.htm|accessdate = 2013-10-28|archive-date = 21 December 2006|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20061221005336/http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120084b.htm|url-status = live}}</ref>

==[[May 29]], 1965 (Saturday)==
*The [[Samotlor Field|Samotlor oil field]], the sixth largest in the world, was discovered in the Soviet Union when drillers struck oil for the first time there. Located in the [[Tyumen Oblast]] in Western Siberia in the [[Russian SFSR]], near the border with the [[Kazakh SSR]], the Samotlor field would become the largest in the USSR, and later in Russia.<ref>{{cite book |chapter=Siberia |title=The A to Z of the Petroleum Industry |editor-first=M. S. |editor-last=Vassiliou |publisher=Scarecrow Press |year=2009 |page=460}}</ref>
*The [[Captain Cook Bridge, New South Wales|Captain Cook Bridge]] across the [[Georges River]] in [[Sydney]] opened for traffic, with seven spans to make it {{convert|1,660|ft}} long.<ref>{{cite book |title=St George Pictorial Memories: Rockdale, Kogarah, Hurstville |publisher=[[Kingsclear Books]] |year=1996 |page=19}}</ref>
*'''Born:''' [[Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov]], Tajikistan film director (d. 2015); in [[Dushanbe]], [[Tadzhik SSR]], [[Soviet Union]]

==[[May 30]], 1965 (Sunday)==
*In Canada, Jewish activists disrupted a Neo-Nazi rally at [[Allan Gardens]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi/orgs/canadian/ftp.py?orgs%2Fcanadian%2F%2Fc-far%2Fbigotrys-fellow-travellers |title=Shofar FTP Archives: "Hate Groups and Bigotry's Fellow Travellers", by Manuel Prutschi |access-date=August 24, 2006 |archive-date=September 14, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070914170758/http://www.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi/orgs/canadian/ftp.py?orgs%2Fcanadian%2F%2Fc-far%2Fbigotrys-fellow-travellers |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*In the [[Battle of Ba Gia]], the 1st Regiment of the Viet Cong ambushed the 1st Battalion of the South Vietnamese Army (ARVN)'s 51st Regiment. The defeat was so overwhelming that, even with air support from the United States, the ARVN battalion lost 392 men, along with 446 rifles and 90 crew-served weapons. Although South Vietnam claimed that it killed 556 Viet Cong, the ARVN soldiers captured only 20 weapons.<ref>{{cite book |title=Almanac of American Military History |volume=1 |editor-first=Spencer |editor-last=Tucker |editor-link=Spencer C. Tucker |publisher=ABC-CLIO |year=2012 |page=1979}}</ref>
*A [[Solar eclipse of May 30, 1965|total eclipse of the sun]] took place, with a path entirely over the sparsely inhabited area of the South Pacific Ocean east of New Zealand and west of South America.<ref>{{cite book |title=Annual Report of the National Academy of Sciences, Fiscal Year 1964-65 |publisher=[[National Academy of Sciences]] |year=1965 |page=136}}</ref>
*'''Died:''' [[Louis Hjelmslev]], 65, Danish linguist

==[[May 31]], 1965 (Monday)==
*Scotland's [[Jim Clark]] won the [[1965 Indianapolis 500|Indianapolis 500]] and set a new record for the fastest speed in the race's history, averaging 150.686 m.p.h. and finishing two laps (and five miles) ahead of second place [[Parnelli Jones]].<ref>"Clark Wins Fastest 500-Mile Race", ''Chicago Tribune'', June 1, 1965, p3-1</ref> Clark's auto, a Ford [[Lotus 38]]-[[Cosworth]] was the first [[rear-engine design]] car to win at Indianapolis.<ref>"Clark Starts New Indy Racing Era— Trend Now Toward Rear-Engine Cars", ''El Paso Herald-Post'', June 1, 1965, pC-1</ref> Minutes after Clark's win, Jones ran out of gas in the final lap and had to push his car across the finish line.<ref>"Parnelli Out of Gas", ''La Crosse (WI) Tribune'', June 1, 1965, p17</ref>
*The Brunei Malay Regiment became the [[Royal Brunei Armed Forces]].
*'''Born:'''
**[[Brooke Shields]], American film and television actress; in [[New York City]]
**[[DJ Casper]] (stage name for William Perry Jr.), American disc jockey (d. 2023); in [[Chicago, Illinois]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.suntimes.com/business/589550,CST-FIN-mcd05.article |title=CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Business |access-date=October 27, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071102081201/http://www.suntimes.com/business/589550,CST-FIN-mcd05.article |archive-date=November 2, 2007 }}</ref>

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