1965

Events

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 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, a local sub-group of the larger Ku Klux Klan.
April - Hồ Chí Minh steps down from his leadership positions with the Workers' Party of Vietnam, ceding power to Le Duan.
September 5 - The People's Mujahedin of Iran is founded.
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 - Fidel Castro establishes the UMAP concentration camps.
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.