1965

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Events edit

January 1 - The People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan is founded by Nur Muhammad Taraki and Babrak Karmal.
February 21 - Malcolm X is assassinated by Nation of Islam member Thomas Hagan while preparing to address the OAAU in Manhattan's Audubon Ballroom.
March 7 - Bloody Sunday: some 200 Alabama State Troopers, acting on orders from county sheriff Jim Clark, attack 525 civil rights demonstrators in Selma, Alabama, as they attempt to march to the state capitol of Montgomery.
March 10 - Beginning of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
March 22 - Nicolae Ceaușescu is named General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party.
March 25 - Civil rights activist Viola Liuzzo is assassinated in Selma, Alabama by four members of the United Klans of America, the dominant faction of the Ku Klux Klan at the time.
April - Hồ Chí Minh steps down from his leadership positions with the Communist Party of Vietnam, ceding power to Le Duan.
August 6 - The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, officially overturning the last remaining Jim Crow laws in the United States.
September 5 - The People's Mujahedin of Iran is founded.
September 23 - End of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
September 30 - The Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66 are ordered by President Sukarno in response to an attempted coup by a group of Army officers.
October 3 - The Communist Party of Cuba is founded by Fidel Castro.
November 25 - Mobutu Sese Seko seizes power in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in a bloodless coup. End of the Congo Crisis.
December 30 - Ferdinand Marcos is elected President of the Philippines.

Births edit

Villain births edit

January 14 - Shamil Basayev
January 22 - Vasil Iliev
February 8 - Fares Mana'a
February 15 - Héctor Beltrán Leyva
March 15 - Milorad Ulemek
April 5 - Debra Denison
April 15 - Joseph Druce
April 19 - Suge Knight
April 24 - Amy Bishop
May 2 - Hüseyin Sözlü
May 16 - Carlos Castaño Gil
May 17 - Richard Baumhammers
May 25 - Yahya Jammeh
July 14 - Mine Ener
September 11 - Bashar al-Assad
September 14 - Dmitry Medvedev
October 25 - Maury Travis
Unknown - Abdullah Shah
Unknown - Cedric Maake

Victim births edit

January 7 - Richard Yost
January 28 - Anthony Sears
February 16 - Robin Murray O'Hair
February 18 - Sophia B. Addo (9/11 Victim)
February 20 - Alberta Williams
March 26 - Maria Colwell
May 27 - Dariusz Janiszewski
June 25 - Maria Colmenero-Silva
June 28 - Dawn Hochsprung
July 6 - Dana Gardner
July 14 - Anat Rosenberg
July 29 - Helen McCourt
August 26 - Shannon Dawn Wright
October 18 - Jacqueline Lamp
December 12 - Richard Guerrero
December 14 - Amy Sweeney
December 16 - Robin Fuldauer
December 23 - Jackie Reyes
Unknown - Brian Howe

Deaths edit

Villain deaths edit

February 21 - Malcolm X
March 3 - Vincas Vitkauskas
March 18 - Farouk of Egypt
June 2 - Nannie Doss
July 19 - Syngman Rhee

Victim deaths edit

January 11 - Bridget O'Hara
March 25 - Viola Liuzzo
October 26 - Sylvia Likens