June 1965

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The following events occurred in June 1965:

June 1, 1965 (Tuesday)

• Florida International University is founded in Miami, US.
• A coal mine explosion in Fukuoka, Japan kills 237 people.

June 2, 1965 (Wednesday)

• Vietnam War: The first contingent of Australian combat troops arrives in South Vietnam.
• Born: Steve and Mark Waugh, Australian cricketers, in Canterbury, New South Wales

June 3, 1965 (Thursday)

• Gemini 4 space mission: Gemini IV is launched from Cape Canaveral. Later the same day, Edward Higgins White becomes the first U.S. astronaut to walk in space.

June 4, 1965 (Friday)

• British ocean liner Pendennis Castle runs aground in Southampton Water, but is refloated undamaged after ​4 ¹⁄₂ hours.

June 5, 1965 (Saturday)

• The U.S. Navy begins full-time staffing of Dixie Station off South Vietnam by one aircraft carrier. Its aircraft carrier presence in the Gulf of Tonkin off Vietnam thus reaches five ships.
• Born: Sandrine Piau, French operatic soprano, at Issy-les-Moulineaux
• Died: Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland, 80, second son of King Gustav V of Sweden

June 6, 1965 (Sunday)

• Italian tanker SS Luisa explodes and catches fire at Bandar Mashar, Iran, killing 30 of her 41 crew, and two others onshore. The ship capsizes and sinks in shallow water.

June 7, 1965 (Monday)

• A mining accident in Kakanj, Bosnia and Herzegovina, results in 128 deaths.
• Born: Jean-Pierre François, French singer and footballer; Damien Hirst, English actress, in Bristol; Mick Foley, American professional wrestler
• Died: Judy Holliday, 43, US actress (breast cancer)

June 8, 1965 (Tuesday)

• The 332-ton collier ship Shelley sinks in Belfast Lough.
• Born: Alberto Marquez, academic and engineer, Mexico City.

June 9, 1965 (Wednesday)

• Born: Muhammad bin Abdul Karim Issa, Saudi politician, in Riyadh

June 10, 1965 (Thursday)

• Vietnam War – Battle of Dong Xoai: About 1,500 Vietcong mount a mortar attack on Dong Xoai, overrunning its military headquarters and the adjoining militia compound.
• Born: Elizabeth Hurley, English actress, in Basingstoke

June 11, 1965 (Friday)

• Allen Ginsberg is among the readers at the International Poetry Incarnation, a one-off event held in the Royal Albert Hall, London.

June 12, 1965 (Saturday)

• Battle of Sungei Koemba: An Australian patrol ambushes an Indonesian force on the Sungei Koemba river in Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo). At the end of the 20-minute action, the Australians have suffered no casualties, while eight Indonesians have been killed and one seriously wounded.
• The Beatles are appointed Members of the British Empire (MBE) in the Queen's Birthday Honours. The honour was believed to have been conveyed at the instigation of prime minister Harold Wilson. Since it was unusual for popular musicians to be appointed as MBEs, a number of previous recipients complained and protested: MP Hector Dupuis commented, "British royalty has put me on the same level as a bunch of vulgar numbskulls".

June 13, 1965 (Sunday)

• Huge crowds turn out at Drumcliffe Churchyard, County Sligo, Ireland, to celebrate the centenary of the birth of poet W.B. Yeats.
• The 1965 Belgian Grand Prix is held at Spa-Francorchamps and is won by Jim Clark.
• The Mobberly Hotel, Longview, Texas, US, is destroyed by fire.
• Died: Martin Buber, 87, Austrian-born Israeli philosopher

June 14, 1965 (Monday)

• A partial lunar eclipse takes place.
• The 24-hour clock is introduced in all British Rail timetables.

June 15, 1965 (Tuesday)

• United States Air Force Lt Colonel Charles D. Tubbs is killed and two other crewmen injured when their B-58 Hustler bomber crashes at the Paris Air Show. The plane lands short of the runway, striking the "instrument approach beacons", and bursts into flames.
• In the UK, the Hughes-Parry Committee submits its report on the legal status of the Welsh language.

June 16, 1965 (Wednesday)

• A planned anti-war protest at the US Pentagon becomes a teach-in, with demonstrators distributing 50,000 leaflets in and around the building.

June 17, 1965 (Thursday)

• The 1965 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference opens in London.
• Born: José Oscar Herrera, Uruguayan footballer, in Tala

June 18, 1965 (Friday)

• The original scheduled launch date of the "station that never was", WDV-11 in Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia. The city government had decreed in November 1963 that television could never be introduced in Warrnambool.
• Born: Uday Hussein, Iraqi politician, son of Saddam Hussein and his first wife, Sajida Talfah, in Tikrit (died 2003)

June 19, 1965 (Saturday)

• Houari Boumédienne's Revolutionary Council ousts President Ahmed Ben Bella, in a bloodless coup in Algeria.
• Sandown Racecourse, in Melbourne, Australia, is officially opened.
• Paul Gerald Coonce's Birth in Tucson, AZ makes 12 for the Coonce family.

June 20, 1965 (Sunday)

• Police in Algiers break up demonstrations by people who have taken to the streets chanting slogans in support of deposed President Ben Bella.
• The 1965 24 Hours of Le Mans is won by the North American Racing Team (NART), consisting of Masten Gregory, Ed Hugus and Jochen Rindt.

June 21, 1965 (Monday)

• The Premier of Tasmania, Eric Reece, announces that the Gordon Power scheme will "result in some modification to the Lake Pedder National Park"; no further details are revealed.
• Born: Yang Liwei, first Chinese astronaut, in Suizhong

June 22, 1965 (Tuesday)

• The Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea is signed in Tokyo.
• Died: David O. Selznick, 63, US film producer (heart attack)

June 23, 1965 (Wednesday)

• The seventh Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Final is played at the Stadio Comunale, Turin, Italy, and is won by Ferencvárosi TC of Hungary.

June 24, 1965 (Thursday)

• The Canberra Theatre Centre, Canberra, Australia, opens with a gala performance by The Australian Ballet.
• Born: Mum Jokmok, Thai comedian, actor and film director, in Yasothon Province

June 25, 1965 (Friday)

• A U.S. Air Force Boeing C-135 Stratolifter bound for Okinawa crashes just after takeoff at MCAS El Toro in Orange County, California, killing all 85 on board.
• In Poland, the Fourth Cabinet of Józef Cyrankiewicz takes office. Its members include future prime minister Piotr Jaroszewicz.
• Two bombs go off in Saigon; over 30 people are killed, and a total of 42 injured.

June 27, 1965 (Sunday)

• The Vietnam War's largest airmobile operation thus far takes place as 150 helicopters airlift the U.S. Army's 173rd Airborne Brigade and two South Vietnamese Army airborne battalions to attack a Viet Cong stronghold just north of Biên Hòa, South Vietnam.
• The 1965 French Grand Prix is held at Clermont-Ferrand and is won by Jim Clark.
• Born: S. Manikavasagam, Malaysian politician, in Penang

June 28, 1965 (Monday)

• Launch of the Indonesian newspaper Kompas.
• Born: Belayneh Densamo, Ethiopian long-distance runner, in Diramo Afarrara
• Died: Red Nichols, 60, US jazz musician (heart attack)

June 29, 1965 (Tuesday)

• A new lighthouse is towed out to the Kish Bank, off the coast of Dublin, Ireland, where it replaces the existing lightship; it goes into full operation in November of the same year.
• Pad Abort Test 2 of the Apollo spacecraft is carried out at Launch Complex 36, White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, US.
• Born: Ignacio Provencio, German-born US scientist, in Bitburg, Germany

June 30, 1965 (Wednesday)

• "Empty Chair Crisis": President Charles de Gaulle withdraws France's representatives from the European Council of Ministers after a failure to agree on the financing of the Common Agricultural Policy and the use of qualified majority voting in the European Community. The situation is eventually resolved with the Luxembourg Compromise six months later.
• Boris Podtserob replaces Viktor Avilov as the Soviet Union's ambassador to Austria.
• Born: Sylvie Lucas, Luxembourgish diplomat; Zurmang Gharwang Rinpoche, Tibetan Buddhist teacher, in Sikkim