News
Civil Rights leader Malcom X is assassinated in Manhattan.
1965 Context: News, Entertainment, Lifestyle
News
Marching to support voting rights, Civil Rights demonstrators are violently attacked by State Troopers after crossing the Edmund Pettis Bridge in Selma, Alabama.
News
US Astronaut Ed White is the first American to walk in space, following the USSR Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov's spacewalk a few months earlier.
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Julie Christie and Omar Sharif in the film Doctor Zhivago directed by David Lean.
News
The Social Security Act of 1965 is signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson adding Medicare and Medicaid health care coverage for eligible Americans.
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The first US combat troops arrive in South Vietnam, as President Johnson sends in 3,500 Marines.
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Harold Wilson is elected Prime Minister in the UK.
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Several days of burning and looting follow allegations of police brutality in the Watts area of Los Angeles.
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The Houston Astrodome opens and is the first domed stadium in the world.
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Construction of the Gateway Arch is completed in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Detail from 1965 Coca Cola advertisement.
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Detail from 1965 Home Decor Advertisement
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Detail from a 1965 advertisement for Sears freezers.
Fashion
Detail from 1965 fashion advertisement.
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Detail from a 1965 advertisement for Schwinn Sting Ray bicycles.
Fashion
Vogue cover showing a mini dress/skirt.
Fashion
UK model Twiggy becomes a recognizable supermodel and sparks a fashion for shorter hairstyles.
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Detail from 1965 Vogue fashion spread.
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Detail from swimsuit advertisement.
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1965 Mattel Barbie Doll advertisement.
Television
At the Go Go in a scene from the US musical variety show Hullabaloo which debuts in 1965.
Movies
Jane Fonda in the 1965 film Cat Ballou, which co-stars Lee Marvin.
Television
The animated program A Charlie Brown Christmas debuts on American television.
Movies
The film adaptation of the Broadway musical Sound of Music is released starring Julie Andrews in the lead role.