Editing 1965 (section)

== 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.