Date: December 4, 1965
Venera program: The Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe toward Venus, which will be the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet. Date: November 16, 1965 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 16 📅 Events on this day in 1965 📅 On This Day (Today) More events…
The Beatles play to nearly 60,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York City, an event later regarded as the birth of stadium rock. Date: August 15, 1965 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 15 📅 Events on this day in 1965 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1965Pakistan…
Joseph-Désiré Mobutu seizes power in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and becomes President; he rules the country (which he renames Zaire in 1971) for over 30 years, until being overthrown by rebels in 1997. Date: November 24, 1965 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 24 📅 Events on this day…
The 173rd Airborne is ambushed by over 1,200 Viet Cong in Operation Hump during the Vietnam War, while the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment fight one of the first set-piece engagements of the war between Australian forces and the Viet Cong at the Battle of Gang Toi. Date: November 8, 1965 Read more on Wikipedia…
South Vietnamese Prime Minister Trần Văn Hương is removed by the military junta of Nguyễn Khánh. Date: January 27, 1965 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 27 📅 Events on this day in 1965 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1965Eisaku Satō First Postwar Japanese PM Visits Okinawa, August…
South Vietnamese Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo, a formerly undetected communist spy and double agent, is hunted down and killed by unknown individuals after being sentenced to death in absentia for a February 1965 coup attempt against Nguyễn Khánh. Date: July 16, 1965 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 16 📅 Events…