On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
In 1965, the world population was approximately 3,334,533,703 people[†]
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 15, 1965, covering December 16, 1965.
Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass
Soundtrack
Various Artists
Barbra Streisand
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Herman's Hermits
The Beach Boys
Ramsey Lewis Trio
The Beatles
Elvis Presley
1965Melanie Sloan, American lawyer and activist[†]
Melanie Sloan is an American attorney, former counsel for the House Judiciary Committee, and the former Executive Director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a nonprofit government ethics and accountability watchdog group. In March 2017, Sloan joined a new government ethics watchdog group, American Oversight, as senior adviser.
1965J. B. Smoove, American comedian, writer, and actor[†]
Jerry Angelo Brooks, commonly known by his stage name J. B. Smoove, is an American comedian, actor, and writer. After beginning his career in 1995 on Def Comedy Jam, he was a writer and performer on NBC's Saturday Night Live (2003–2006). He is best known for his starring roles on HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm (2007–2024) and the CBS sitcom The Millers (2013–2015). He also portrayed a fictionalized version of himself on the BET improv-comedy reality television parody Real Husbands of Hollywood (2013–2016).
1965W. Somerset Maugham, British playwright, novelist, and short story writer (born 1874)[†]
William Somerset Maugham was an English writer, known for his plays, novels and short stories. Born in Paris, where he spent his first ten years, Maugham was schooled in England and went to a German university. He became a medical student in London and qualified as a physician in 1897. He never practised medicine, and became a full-time writer. His first novel, Liza of Lambeth (1897), a study of life in the slums, attracted attention, but it was as a playwright that he first achieved national celebrity. By 1908 he had four plays running at once in the West End of London. He wrote his 32nd and last play in 1933, after which he abandoned the theatre and concentrated on novels and short stories.
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US officials see Latin Amers ignoring deterioration in East-West relations from Vietnam war when they assume pro-USSR Communists are no threat
CAPE KENNEDY, Fla., Dec. 15 -- After twice having had its wings clipped by failure, the Gemini 6 finally climed to its space rendezuous today in a most spectacular way.
NASA cites 'budgetary considerations' in cancellation of Advanced Orbiting Solar Observatory; Adm seen holding fiscal '67 budget to $5.17 billion; Apollo project to remain on schedule; work on some other projects to be slowed
HOUSTON, Dec. 15 -- Four American astronauts steered Gemini 6 and Gemini 7 today to man's first rendezvous in the vastness of outer space.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 -- President Johnson hailed the Gemini satellite rendezvous today as a step toward the moon.
Sec McNamara says mil prospects include operational medium-range ballistic missile with nuclear warhead by '67, with deployment of several launchers by '68 or '69 and several doz by '76, s, NATO Mins Council; sees ICBM deployment by '75
Johnson, in conf with Pres Ayub Khan, Washington, restates basic reasons for US commitment
NYCTA meets with TWU, Amalgamated Transit Union and mediation panel; says that if it granted unions demands it would have to raise fare to 47¢ and raise basic wage rate for bus drivers from $3.22 to $4.60 an hr; Quill silent; illus
Wagner repts $200,000, 6-yr study directed by Prof L B Cohen finds rush-hr crowding could be eliminated by staggering working hrs, most people willing to make adjustments; several city officials and private experts question plan; study financed partly by $100,000 grant from Rockefeller Bros Fund
Mil action against N Vietnam: US bombers destroy Uongbi thermal power plant, 14 mi from Haiphong, 1st Amer strike against N Vietnamese target of top importance, closest to Hanoi or Haiphong; 1 Amer plane downed, pilot rescued; map