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| 1965 |
| | | The Gambia becomes an independent member of the Commonwealth, with Dawda Jawara as prime minister | |
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| 1965 |
| | | Black activist and convert to Islam Malcolm X is assassinated when giving a speech in the Audubon Ballroom in New York | |
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| 1965 |
| | | George Grant publishes an influential political tract, Lament for a Nation: The Defeat of Canadian Nationalism | |
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| 1965 |
| | | The Vietnam War enters a new dimension with the deployment of US ground troops in the country | |
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| 1965 |
| | | Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov is the first to walk in space, moving round outside the Voshkod 2 spacecraft for more than ten minutes | |
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| 1965 |
| | | The first communications satellite, Early Bird, is launched from Cape Carnaveral | |
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| 1965 |
| | | Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras preside over simultaneous ceremonies, in Rome and Istanbul, revoking the mutual excommunications of 1054 | |
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| 1965 |
| | | US marines intervene in civil war in the Dominican Republic to prevent a communist takeover | |
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| 1965 |
| | | Woody Allen makes his screen debut with What's New Pussycat? | |
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| 1965 |
| | | Neil Simon's play The Odd Couple is produced in New York | |
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