1965: Difference between revisions

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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.
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.

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 === Victim births ===
-* January 7 - Richard Yost
+* anuary 7 - Richard Yost
 *February 16 - Robin Murray O'Hair
 *February 18 - Sophia B. Addo (9/11 Victim)
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 * July 29 - Helen McCourt
 * October 18 - Jacqueline Lamp
-* December 12 - Richardo Guerrero
+* December 12 - Richard Guerrero
 * December 14 - [https://real-life-heroes.fandom.com/wiki/Amy_Sweeney Amy Sweeney]
 *December 16 - Robin Fuldauer