Editing 1965

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== Events ==
* 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 ==

=== Villain births ===
* 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 ===
* 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 - [https://real-life-heroes.fandom.com/wiki/Shannon_Dawn_Wright Shannon Dawn Wright]
* October 18 - Jacqueline Lamp 
* December 12 - Richard Guerrero
* December 14 - [https://real-life-heroes.fandom.com/wiki/Amy_Sweeney Amy Sweeney]
*December 16 - Robin Fuldauer 
*December 23 - Jackie Reyes 
*Unknown - Brian Howe

== Deaths ==

=== Villain deaths ===
* February 21 - [[Malcolm X]]
* March 3 - [[Vincas Vitkauskas]]
* March 18 - [[Farouk of Egypt]]
* June 2 - [[Nannie Doss]]
* July 19 - [[Syngman Rhee]]

=== Victim deaths ===
* January 11 - Bridget O'Hara
* March 25 - Viola Liuzzo
* October 26 - Sylvia Likens