1965 U.S. National Championships (tennis)
The 1965 U.S. National Championships (now known as the US Open) was a tennis tournament that took place on the outdoor grass courts at the West Side Tennis Club, Forest Hills in New York City, United States. The tournament ran from 1 September until 12 September. It was the 85th staging of the U.S. National Championships, and the fourth Grand Slam tennis event of 1965.


1965 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Men's doubles
Roy Emerson /  Fred Stolle defeated   Frank Froehling /  Charles Pasarell 6–4, 10–12, 7–5, 6–3


1965 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Women's doubles
Carole Graebner /  Nancy Richey defeated  Billie Jean Moffitt /  Karen Susman 6–4, 6–4


1965 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Mixed doubles
Margaret Smith /  Fred Stolle defeated  Judy Tegart /  Frank Froehling 6–2, 6–2


1965 U.S. National Championships – Men's Singles
Manuel Santana defeated Cliff Drysdale 6–2, 7–9, 7–5, 6–1 in the final to win the Men's Singles tennis title at the 1965 U.S. National Championships.


1965 U.S. National Championships – Men's Singles, Seeds
The seeded players are listed below. Manuel Santana is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated.


1965 U.S. National Championships – Women's Singles
First-seeded Margaret Smith defeated fifth-seeded Billie Jean Moffitt 8–6, 7–5 in the final to win the Women's Singles tennis title at the 1965 U.S. National Championships.


1965 U.S. National Championships – Women's Singles, Seeds
The seeded players are listed below. Margaret Smith is the champion; others show in brackets the round in which they were eliminated.


1965 U.S. Open (golf)
The 1965 U.S. Open was the 65th U.S. Open, held June 17–21 at Bellerive Country Club in Town and Country, Missouri, a suburb west of St. Louis. Gary Player of South Africa defeated Kel Nagle of Australia in an 18-hole playoff to win his only U.S. Open title. Player was the first foreign-born winner of the U.S. Open since 1927, and the win completed his career Grand Slam at age 29. It was the fourth of his nine major titles. The 1965 U.S. Open was the first U.S. Open broadcast on color television.


1965 U.S. Open (golf)
The five-year-old course at Bellerive was the U.S. Open's longest to date at 7,191 yards (6,575 m), and had the potential to reach 7,500 yards (6,860 m). The quality of the young course's turf varied, with burned out or diseased areas which the USGA did not allow relief from. The field consisted of 136 professionals and 14 amateurs, with the top fifty and ties advancing after 36 holes. This was the first time that the U.S. Open was scheduled for four days, with the final round on Sunday. Previously the third and fourth rounds were both played on Saturday. The U.S. Women's Open also changed to this format, held two weeks later in early July.


1965 U.S. Open (golf), Final round and playoff
In the final round on Sunday, Player owned a three-stroke lead over Nagle with just three holes to play. But while Player double-bogeyed the par-3 16th hole, Nagle birdied the 17th. As Player reached the 18th tee, he knew he needed a birdie to win outright, as Nagle had parred the final hole for 282 (+2). Player had a 28-foot (8.5 m) putt for birdie, but left it 4 inches (10 cm) short and tapped in for a 72-hole tie. In the 18-hole playoff on Monday afternoon, Player built a five-shot lead after eight holes and held on to win by three strokes, 71 to 74. He won the championship with fiberglass-shafted golf clubs.


1965 U.S. Open (golf), Final round and playoff
With his win, Player joined Gene Sarazen and Ben Hogan as the only to win all four professional major championships, the career Grand Slam. Jack Nicklaus completed the feat himself the next year at the 1966 British Open. Player was also the first foreign-born winner of the U.S. Open in 38 years, since Scotland's Tommy Armour won in 1927.


1965 U.S. Open (golf), Final round and playoff
Arnold Palmer missed the 36-hole cut by two strokes, the only time from 1962 to 1967 that he placed outside the top-5 at the U.S. Open. Defending champion Ken Venturi was hampered by numbed fingers and missed the cut by ten strokes.


1965 U.S. Open (golf), Purse donated
The winner's share was $25,000 and both playoff participants received a $1,000 bonus, taken from the gate receipts of the Monday gallery of 6,790. Player donated his winner's share to cancer research ($5,000) and junior golf ($20,000) in the United States, fulfilling an earlier pledge to thank the people of America; his mother died of cancer when he was eight years old. Player paid his caddy $2,000 with his playoff bonus and $1,000 from his pocket.


1965 U.S. Women's Open
The 1965 U.S. Women's Open was the 20th U.S. Women's Open, held July 1–4 at Atlantic City Country Club in Northfield, New Jersey.


1965 U.S. Women's Open
Carol Mann, age 24, won her only U.S. Women's Open, two strokes ahead of runner-up Kathy Cornelius, the 1956 champion. It was the second of Mann's two major championships, who had an opening round of 78 (+6); at the 72nd hole on Sunday, she needed a par to win and made a birdie.


1965 U.S. Women's Open
This was the first U.S. Women's Open scheduled for four days since 1952, with the final round on Sunday. From 1953 through 1964, the third and fourth rounds were both played on Saturday; the U.S. Open also moved its final round to Sunday in 1965. The purse was substantially increased, with a winner's share of $4,000, up from $2,200 in 1964.


1965 U.S. Women's Open
Defending champion Mickey Wright, a four-time winner, had an injury to her left hand and did not compete.


1965 U.S. Women's Open
The course previously hosted the championship in 1948 and it returned in 1975.


1965 UC Davis Aggies football team
The 1965 UC Davis football team represented the University of California, Davis in the 1965 NCAA College Division football season. UC Davis competed in the Far Western Conference (FWC). The UC Davis sports teams were commonly called the “Cal Aggies” from 1924 until the mid 1970s.


1965 UC Davis Aggies football team
The Aggies were led by third-year head coach Herb Schmalenberger. They played home games at Toomey Field. The Aggies finished the season with a record of four wins and six losses (4–6, 3–2 FWC). They were outscored by their opponents 157–187 for the 1965 season.


1965 UC Davis Aggies football team, NFL Draft
No UC Davis Aggies players were selected in the 1966 NFL Draft.


1965 UC Riverside Highlanders football team
The 1965 UC Riverside Highlanders football team represented UC Riverside during the 1965 NCAA College Division football season. The Highlanders competed as an independent in 1965.


1965 UC Riverside Highlanders football team
UC Riverside was led by first-year head coach Pete Kettela. They played home games at Highlander Stadium in Riverside, California. The Highlanders finished the season with a record of six wins and two losses (6–2). Overall, the team outscored its opponents 189–183 for the season.


1965 UC Riverside Highlanders football team, Team players in the NFL
No UC Riverside players were selected in the 1966 NFL Draft.


1965 UC Santa Barbara Gauchos football team
The 1965 UC Santa Barbara Gauchos football team represented University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) during the 1965 NCAA College Division football season.


1965 UC Santa Barbara Gauchos football team
UCSB competed as an Independent in 1965. The team was led by third-year head coach "Cactus Jack" Curtice, and played home games at La Playa Stadium in Santa Barbara, California. They finished the regular season with a record of eight wins and one loss (8–1).


1965 UC Santa Barbara Gauchos football team
At the end of the season, the Gauchos qualified for a postseason bowl game, the 1965 Camellia Bowl, played in Sacramento, California. The lost the game against Cal State Los Angeles 10–18. That brought their final record to eight wins and two losses (8–2). For the 1965 season they outscored their opponents 225–95.


1965 UC Santa Barbara Gauchos football team, Team players in the NFL
No Santa Barbara Gaucho players were selected in the 1966 NFL Draft.


1965 UC Santa Barbara Gauchos football team, Team players in the NFL
The following finished their UC Santa Barbara career in 1965, were not drafted, but played in the NFL/AFL.


1965 UCI Road World Championships
The 1965 UCI Road World Championships took place on 5 September 1965 in San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain.


1965 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race
The Men's Individual Road Race of the 1965 UCI Road World Championships cycling event took place on 5 September in San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain.


1965 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race
The race was won by Great Britain's Tom Simpson, outsprinting Germany's Rudi Altig after the two had broken away with 40 km (24.9 mi) to go.


1965 UCI Track Cycling World Championships
The 1965 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were the world championships for track cycling that took place in San Sebastián, Spain from 6 to 12 September 1965. Nine events were contested, 7 for men (3 for professionals, 4 for amateurs) and 2 for women.


1965 UCLA Bruins football team
The 1965 UCLA Bruins football team represented University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the 1965 NCAA University Division football season. The team was coached by Tommy Prothro, who replaced William F. Barnes, in Prothro's first season at the helm. Under sophomore  quarterback Gary Beban, the team finished the season with an 8–2–1 record and the conference championship. They upset top-ranked and undefeated Michigan State, who had beaten them earlier the same season, in the Rose Bowl game. The Bruins finished ranked 4th in the final AP Poll and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 257 to 168.


1965 UCLA Bruins football team, Regular season
The Bruins lost their season opening game 13–3 at Michigan State, who then rose to become a top-ranked team in the country. The unheralded Bruins would go on a seven-game undefeated streak, surprising national powers like Syracuse and Penn State. Going into the 1965 UCLA-USC rivalry football game ranked #7, the conference championship and 1966 Rose Bowl were on the line. #6 USC, led by Heisman Trophy winner Mike Garrett led 16–6 until UCLA got a touchdown on a pass from Gary Beban to Dick Witcher with four minutes to play. After the two-point conversion made it 16–14, UCLA recovered an onside kick. Beban then hit Kurt Altenberg on a 50-yard bomb and UCLA won, 20–16.


1965 UCLA Bruins football team, Regular season
Integrated UCLA then faced all-white Tennessee in the newly built Liberty Bowl stadium in Memphis, Prothro's native city. On the last play of the game, Tennessee defensive back Bob Petrella intercepted a UCLA pass to save a Volunteer win by a score of 37–34. Tennessee's winning drive was aided by a controversial pass interference call, the clock had questionably stopped twice, and a dropped pass that appeared to be a lateral was recovered by UCLA but was later ruled an incomplete forward pass. After the game, Prothro stated, "For the first time in my life, I am ashamed to be a Southerner."


1965 UCLA Bruins football team, Regular season
The Bruins went to the 1966 Rose Bowl as a 141/2 point underdog in a rematch with undefeated and #1 ranked powerhouse Michigan State. UCLA, now dubbed "The Miracle Bruins" by Sports Illustrated, vanquished the heavily favored Spartans 14–12. That victory gave UCLA an 8–2–1 mark, prevented the Spartans from winning the AP title, and resulted in Prothro earning Coach of the Year accolades from his coaching colleagues. UCLA finished #4 that season, and due to their small size, earned the moniker "Gutty little Bruins."


1965 UCLA Bruins football team, Game summaries, Michigan State (Rose Bowl)
2nd quarter scoring: UCLA — Gary Beban 1-yard run (Kurt Zimmerman kick); UCLA — Beban 1-yard run (Zimmerman kick)


1965 UCLA Bruins football team, Game summaries, Michigan State (Rose Bowl)
4th quarter scoring: MSU — Bob Apisa 38-yard run (Jimmy Raye pass fail); MSU — Juday 1-yard run (Apisa run fail)


1965 UEFA European Under-18 Championship
The UEFA European Under-18 Championship 1965 Final Tournament was held in West Germany.


1965 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year
The 1965 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year was the 39th year of greyhound racing in the United Kingdom and Ireland.


1965 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary
The industry experienced a small rise in attendances and totalisator turnover for the first time since 1946. The National Greyhound Racing Club (NGRC) affiliated tracks saw 11,213,730 paying customers at 5972 meetings with tote turnover of £58,480,219. However the possibility of future increases was unlikely because there was competition from television, which had found its way into many of Britain's households, bingo halls (a recent gambling rival) which was now established and dance halls pulled in the younger generation. In addition many companies that owned tracks had evaluated that selling them for redevelopment brought large short term financial gain, especially in major cities.


1965 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Tracks
Staines Greyhound Stadium was demolished, five years after closing and the Mexborough greyhound track called the Dog Daisy Stadium, which was situated on the corner of Sedgefield Way and Harlington Road also shut. Seaforth Greyhound Stadium closed on 31 December. Romford Stadium Ltd sold their controlling interest in the Dagenham Greyhound Stadium track for £185,000 stating that government restrictions on fixtures forced both tracks to race on the same day which impacted attendances. Incidentally The Dagenham Coup court case continued.


1965 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, News
On 25 January Juvenile champion Hi Joe trained by Noreen Collin and owned by bookmaker Victor Chandler Sr. was stolen from his Epping kennels. Initial hopes were that he could be recovered quickly to allow him to line up for the English Greyhound Derby but as the weeks passed he had not been recovered.


1965 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, News
John Sutton became the Managing Director of the Greyhound Racing Association and the GRA extended its board by adding Major Percy Brown, John Cearns (son of WJ Cearns) and Charles Chandler Jr. to the directors. They then sold the Kingsfurze breeding establishment at Naas in County Kildare, the seven acre grounds had been breeding greyhounds for over 17 years. This was followed by the sale of Upper Childown Farm and Fan Court Farm grounds in Longcross near Chertsey. The two properties were used as a nursery and rearing establishment by the GRA.


1965 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, News
Further cutbacks by the GRA included the sacking of two advertising executives and five trainers from the Hook Estate and Kennels. Harry Buck, Dick Clark, Albert Jonas, Eric Hiscock and Jack Cooper all left while the remaining ten Hook Kennels trainers would cover the three tracks of White City Greyhounds, Harringay Stadium and Stamford Bridge Greyhounds. The Chairman and Directors were rewarded for their work by gaining a significant rise, doubling their salaries, which was deferred until 1966.


1965 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, News
Track Chromatography (a drug testing unit) was first used at Walthamstow in their purpose built lab. Leading owner, the 70 year old shipping magnate Noel Purvis retired after forty years owning greyhounds, he rated Mile Bush Pride as his greatest greyhound.


1965 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Ireland
Des Hanrahan became Chairman of the Bord na gCon and actively sought to buy any Irish tracks in danger of being sold to developers.


1965 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Ireland
At the seaside resort of Ballybunion in County Kerry, Matt Sullivan finally received a licence to open Ballybunion Greyhound Stadium despite having to go to court against the Bord na gCon, who had reservations that it was too close to the Kingdom Greyhound Stadium in Tralee.


1965 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Ireland
A litter whelped in February 1965, at the kennels of Leo Stack at Duagh, Co. Kerry, would become one of the greatest litters in the history of track racing. The litter, of five dogs and four bitches, was by Crazy Parachute out of Supreme Witch and included Forward Flash (a black dog), Forward King (a fawn dog), Spectre II and Tric-Trac (two black dogs) and Gezira (a fawn bitch).


1965 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Competitions
The Grand Prix at Walthamstow Stadium is cancelled for the second year in succession due to problems over filling the event. Walthamstow had applied for a change to 700 yards at late notice but it is refused by the NGRC. They will however apply for a longer distance the following year and be successful. Conna Count, a white and brindle dog became the fourth greyhound to successfully defend the Laurels at Wimbledon Stadium for a new increased prize of £1,500.


1965 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Competitions
Clonmannon Flash, the Jim Hookway trained greyhound won the Scottish Greyhound Derby, Northern Flat, Edinburgh Cup, Pall Mall Stakes, Gimcrack and Stewards' Cup. He subsequently received the accolade of Greyhound of the Year at the end of year awards held at the Dorchester Hotel.


1965 UMass Redmen football team
The 1965 UMass Redmen football team represented the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the 1965 NCAA College Division football season as a member of the Yankee Conference. The team was coached by Vic Fusia and played its home games at Alumni Stadium in Hadley, Massachusetts. The 1965 season was the Redmen's first in Alumni Stadium, their home field until 2012. UMass finished the season with a record of 7–2 overall and 4–1 in conference play.


1965 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships
The 1965 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships men's competition took place between June 25-26 at Balboa Stadium in San Diego, California. The women's division held their championships separately in Columbus, Ohio.


1965 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships
The Marathon championships were run in October at the Yonkers Marathon.


1965 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships
One of the highlights of this meet was the 6 mile run, where Olympic Champion Billy Mills, known for his stunning sprint in the Olympics ("Look at Mills, Look at Mills!") was run down by Gerry Lindgren. Mills surged to take a narrow victory, both men being given the same time, which was the world record.


1965 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships
Also running was Olympic double champion Peter Snell and 1500 silver medalist Josef Odložil as visiting international athletes. Snell had just lost his world record in the mile to Michel Jazy two weeks earlier. While Jim Ryun was a high school star who had run in that same race in the Olympics, his win here was his first American record, narrowly pushed by competition from Snell and Jim Grelle. Olympic Champions Bob Schul and Warren "Rex" Cawley also won.


1965 USAC Championship Car season
The 1965 USAC Championship Car season consisted of 18 races, beginning in Avondale, Arizona on March 28 and concluding at the same location on November 21. This season was notable for the Hoosier Grand Prix, the first ever road course race for this series. The USAC National Champion was Mario Andretti and the Indianapolis 500 winner was Jim Clark.


1965 USAF KC-135 Wichita crash
On 16 January 1965, a U.S. Air Force Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker crashed in the central United States, in a neighborhood in Wichita, Kansas, near McConnell Air Force Base. This resulted in the deaths of all seven crew members on board the aircraft and an additional twenty-three people on the ground.


1965 USAF KC-135 Wichita crash
This accident is the deadliest aviation disaster to occur in Kansas. It is also the second-deadliest aircraft accident in the United States involving victims on the ground, after the Green Ramp disaster in 1994, which killed 24 people on the ground.


1965 USAF KC-135 Wichita crash, Accident details
At 9:28 a.m. CST (3:28 p.m. UTC) on Saturday, 16 January 1965, a Boeing KC-135A-BN Stratotanker, serial number 57-1442, took off from the McConnell Air Force Base and gained very little altitude. During this time, the aircraft began to experience a large amount of yaw, and attempted to return to the airport. The crew then began to dump large quantities of fuel from the aircraft's refueling tanks. Shortly after this, the aircraft made a hard bank to the left, and began to enter a roll. Unable to recover, the aircraft crashed into a suburban neighborhood at the intersection of Piatt and 20th Street, just three minutes after take-off. The site is several blocks northwest of Wichita State University.


1965 USAF KC-135 Wichita crash, Accident details
The aerial refueling aircraft was loaded with 31,000 US gallons (120,000 l) of jet fuel, and the crash resulted in a large explosion and subsequent fire, which engulfed dozens of homes. The accident killed all seven crew members on the aircraft and an additional twenty-three people on the ground. In addition, at least twenty-seven people on the ground sustained injuries, three of which were serious.


1965 USAF KC-135 Wichita crash, Accident details
It was reported that the crew entry door was jettisoned and a B-52 Stratofortress bomber, which took off prior to the KC-135, may have blown a detached drag chute from an F-105 Thunderchief against the departing aircraft. These factors may have contributed to the crash. Recently un-redacted portions of the accident report indicate that the parachute ingested into the Number 1 engine was that of the crew member who attempted to bail out through the crew entry door. His body was found about 200 feet from the impact crater.


1965 USAF KC-135 Wichita crash, Accident details
The aircraft and crew were based at Clinton-Sherman Air Force Base in west central Oklahoma, less than 200 miles (320 km) to the southwest.


1965 USAF KC-135 Wichita crash, Aftermath
Ten months after the accident, the U.S. Air Force issued an official accident report that  stated that the crash was caused by "a rudder control system malfunction," which was impossible for the crew to overcome.


1965 USAF KC-135 Wichita crash, Aftermath
In 1971, the Piatt Memorial Park was opened to serve as a local recreational facility and a reminder of the tragedy. The park features several amenities, including a playground, a drinking fountain, and a basketball court. On July 14, 2007, more than forty-two years after the accident, an airplane-shaped twelve by twenty-two foot Imperial Black Granite monument with the names of all thirty victims of the crash inscribed on it was unveiled at a ceremony.


1965 USC Trojans football team
The 1965 USC Trojans football team represented the University of Southern California (USC) in the 1965 NCAA University Division football season. In their sixth year under head coach John McKay, the Trojans compiled a 7–2–1 record (4–1 against conference opponents), finished in second place in the Athletic Association of Western Universities (AAWU or Pac-8), and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 262 to 92. The team was ranked #10 in the final AP Poll and #9 in the final Coaches Poll.


1965 USC Trojans football team
Quarterback Troy Winslow led the team in passing, completing 78 of 128 passes for 1,019 yards with 11 touchdowns and 9 interceptions. Mike Garrett won the Heisman Trophy and led the team in rushing with 267 carries for 1,440 yards and 13 touchdowns. Dave Moton led the team in receiving with 29 catches for 493 yards and five touchdowns.


1965 USC Trojans football team, 1965 team players in the NFL
The following players were drafted into professional football following the season.


1965 USSR Chess Championship
The 1965 Soviet Chess Championship was the 33rd edition of USSR Chess Championship. Held from 24 November 1965 to 24 December 1965 in Tallinn. The tournament was won by Leonid Stein. The final were preceded by semifinals events at Leningrad and Omsk.


1965 Ukrainian Class B
The 1965 Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR (Class B) was the 35th season of association football competition of the Ukrainian SSR, which was part of the Ukrainian Class B. It was the fifteenth in the Soviet Class B and the third season of the Ukrainian Class B.


1965 Ukrainian Class B
The 1965 Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR (Class B) was won by SKA Lviv.


1965 Ukrainian Class B, Promotion / relegation play-off
Both games were played in Simferopol. Both teams were promoted.


1965 United Arab Republic presidential confirmation referendum
Presidential elections were held in the United Arab Republic (now Egypt) on 15 March 1965. The election took the form of a referendum on the candidacy of Gamal Abdel Nasser, who ran unopposed. He won with almost seven million votes, and only 65 against. Voter turnout was 98.5%.


1965 United Nations Security Council election
The 1965 United Nations Security Council election was held on 10 December 1965 during the twentieth session of the United Nations General Assembly, held at United Nations Headquarters in New York City. The General Assembly elected seven members, as non-permanent members of the UN Security Council for two-year mandates commencing on 1 January 1966.


1965 United Nations Security Council election, Rules
The Security Council has 15 seats, filled by five permanent members and ten non-permanent members. Each year, half of the non-permanent members are elected for two-year terms. A sitting member may not immediately run for re-election.


1965 United Nations Security Council election, Rules
In accordance with the rules whereby the ten non-permanent UNSC seats rotate among the various regional blocs into which UN member states traditionally divide themselves for voting and representation purposes, the three available seats were allocated as follows:


1965 United Nations Security Council election, Rules
To be elected, a candidate must receive a two-thirds majority of those present and voting. If the vote is inconclusive after the first round, three rounds of restricted voting shall take place, followed by three rounds of unrestricted voting, and so on, until a result has been obtained. In restricted voting, only official candidates may be voted on, while in unrestricted voting, any member of the given regional group, with the exception of current Council members, may be voted on.


1965 United Nations Security Council election, Result
At this time, the United Nations had 117 member states (for a timeline of UN membership, see Enlargement of the United Nations). There were no nominations before the election. The election was managed by then-President of the United Nations General Assembly Amintore Fanfani of Italy and a Mr. Wyzner of Poland and a Mr. Montero of Uruguay. Voting was conducted on a single ballot. Ballots containing more states from a certain region than seats allocated to that region were invalidated. The United Nations was expanded from six to ten non-permanent members in 1965. As a result of the expansion, Jordan was allowed to hold membership until 31 December 1966.


1965 United Nations Security Council election, Result
To fill the additional spots created by the expansion of the security council, four non-permanent members were elected. These seats were divided among three members from African and Asian States and one member from Western European and other States


1965 United States Grand Prix
The 1965 United States Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on October 3, 1965, at the Watkins Glen Grand Prix Race Course in Watkins Glen, New York. It was race 9 of 10 in both the 1965 World Championship of Drivers and the 1965 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. The 110-lap race was won by BRM driver Graham Hill after he started from pole position. Dan Gurney finished second for the Brabham team and his teammate Jack Brabham came in third.


1965 United States Grand Prix, Summary
In the last year of the 1.5-liter formula, Jim Clark had clinched his second Drivers' Championship (as well as winning the Indianapolis 500) before the teams arrived in North America for the season's last two races. Once again, however, it was Graham Hill and BRM who reigned at The Glen, winning for the third year in a row. Hill took pole, win and fastest lap, finishing twelve seconds ahead of the Brabhams of Dan Gurney and Sir Jack.


1965 United States Grand Prix, Summary
The weekend was cold (45 °F), windy (30 mph), and often wet. In practice, Jim Clark—a Scot, no less—wore a sweater over his driving suit. Ferrari was missing the previous year's World Champion, John Surtees, who had been injured in a sports car race in Canada the previous week. Hill's new BRM teammate, Jackie Stewart, who had broken Clark's string of five consecutive victories with his first Grand Prix win at Monza three weeks before, was running at The Glen for the first time, as was Austrian Jochen Rindt. American Bob Bondurant was making his Formula One debut.


1965 United States Grand Prix, Summary
The track was shrouded in mist on Friday, as Clark switched back and forth between his Lotus, with a 32-valve Climax engine, and teammate Mike Spence's 16-valve model. After bending the suspension on Spence's car by hitting the curb in 'The 90', Clark got back in his car and did a 1:12.7, which was fastest of the day until Hill beat it by two-tenths.


1965 United States Grand Prix, Summary
On Saturday, sunny but still cold, Clark and Hill continued their battle. Hill posted a 1:11.25 in the BRM, and Clark just failed to match him in his 32-valve Lotus, getting down to 1:11.35 before he sheared two teeth on a timing gear. Again, the Scot took teammate Spence's car, and he recorded a remarkable time of 1:11.16 to complete the duel. Overnight, however, the 32-valve engine was repaired, and when Clark decided to use it in the race, he would have to start from the second spot, alongside Hill. American Richie Ginther used the spare Honda to grab third spot, as the powerful V–12 made him the fastest car down the straight. The top six on the grid were Hill, Clark, Ginther, Spence, Lorenzo Bandini's Ferrari and Stewart.


1965 United States Grand Prix, Summary
It rained on Sunday morning, but a strong wind dried the track in time for the start, and 60,000 fans watched with hoods and parkas against the changing conditions. Hill jumped into an early lead, trailed by Clark and Ginther. Stewart charged up from the third row and moved inside Ginther in the Esses, but the Honda pinched the gap closed, forcing Stewart into the curb and bending his suspension. Stewart continued, while the stunned Ginther dropped back to eighth, but the throttle cable on Stewart's car split and he limped around to the pits. By the time he rejoined the race, the rain had returned, making his bent suspension too big of a handicap, and he retired.


1965 United States Grand Prix, Summary
On the second lap, Clark took the lead from Hill, as the two pulled away from Bandini, Spence, Gurney and Brabham. Three laps later, Hill regained the lead, and the two British World Champions dueled until lap 12, when Hill's BRM appeared alone, and Clark coasted into the pits with a broken piston. The group of four following the leaders had been battling hard, as Spence was twice forced off the road by Bandini, and retired on lap six with a broken timing chain. Hill now led Gurney by 14 seconds, followed by Bandini and Brabham.


1965 United States Grand Prix, Summary
By lap 24, Hill led by almost half a lap. Then, a sudden shower soaked the track as the leader began lap 37. In 'The Loop' at the end of the back straight, Hill was caught out by the slippery surface and went straight on into the grass, then bounced along for 200 yards before regaining the track. Hill's Dunlop tires were two seconds per lap slower in the wet than the Brabham team's Goodyears, and, aided by the off-track excursion, Gurney and Jack Brabham were able to close the sizable gap.


1965 United States Grand Prix, Summary
Gurney pulled right up on the BRM's tailpipes, but in his zeal, he overdid a corner and allowed teammate Brabham by into second. Now, it was team leader Brabham's turn to have a go, and he moved ahead of Hill on the outside of 'The 90,' right before the pits. Hill had been consistently taking corners with a late apex, then power-sliding the car around the outside of the turn's exit.


1965 United States Grand Prix, Summary
Hill's wide line out of the corner again carried him to the edge of the track, and with Brabham on his left, he forced the two-time Champion off and into a slow 360 across the wet grass. Gurney was back in second, and Brabham rejoined, once again in third. Gurney may have been tempted to challenge for the lead again, but a slipping clutch caused him to think better of it.


1965 United States Grand Prix, Summary
With the track almost completely dry near the end of the race, Hill put his foot down and set the fastest lap of the afternoon on lap 105. He came home twelve seconds ahead for his second win of the year and the completion of a remarkable three-year run at The Glen. After the season, the Watkins Glen Grand Prix Corporation was awarded the Grand Prix Drivers Association's "Best Organized Race Award," the first of three times The Glen would receive the honor.


1965 United States House of Representatives elections
There were at least four special elections to the United States House of Representatives in 1965, during 89th United States Congress.


1965 United States Road Racing Championship
The 1965 United States Road Racing Championship season was the third season of the Sports Car Club of America's United States Road Racing Championship. It began April 11, 1965, and ended September 5, 1965, after nine races. Separate races for sportscars and GTs were held at two rounds, while seven rounds were combined races. George Follmer won the season championship driving in the Under-2 Liter class.


1965 United States gubernatorial elections
United States gubernatorial elections were held in November 1965, in two states.


1965 United States gubernatorial elections, New Jersey
After his re-election win, Hughes tried to do an income tax, but that bill died. The tax would come into play afterthe state Supreme Court handed down a decision concerning property taxes for schools in 1973. Hughes would become Chief Justice in 1974, and after much battling with then-Gov. Brendan Byrne and the New Jersey Legislature concerning taxes for public education, the income tax finally made it to New Jersey.


1965 United States gubernatorial elections, Virginia
The 1965 Virginia's Governor's Race was colorful in that not only a new governor emerged, (Mills E. Godwin, Jr.), who would go on to serve the term as a Democrat and later serve another term as a Republican in the 1970s, but that another opponent, A. Linwood Holton, Jr., would go on to serve a term as Virginia's first Republican Governor since Reconstruction. Not to mention that George Lincoln Rockwell, the 'American Hitler', ran in this race.


1965 Upper Voltan parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in the Republic of Upper Volta on 7 November 1965. The country had been a one-party state since 1960, with the Voltaic Democratic Union–African Democratic Rally as the sole legal party. It therefore won all 75 seats in the National Assembly. Voter turnout was 97.4%.


1965 Upper Voltan presidential election
Presidential elections were held for the first time in the Republic of Upper Volta on 3 October 1965, as previously the President had been appointed by the National Assembly. At the time, the country was a one-party state, with the Voltaic Democratic Union–African Democratic Rally (UDV–RDA) as the sole legal party. Its leader, Maurice Yaméogo, was the only candidate, and was re-elected with 100% of the vote. Voter turnout was 98.4%.


1965 Uruguayan Primera División, Overview
It was contested by 10 teams, and Peñarol won the championship.


1965 Utah Redskins football team
The 1965 Utah Redskins football team represented the University of Utah during the 1965 NCAA University Division football season. Home games were played on campus in Salt Lake City at Ute Stadium.


1965 Utah Redskins football team
Under eighth-year head coach Ray Nagel, the Redskins were 3–7 overall and 1–3 in the Western Athletic Conference (WAC). Following a 2–2 start, Utah won just once in the final six games. After the season in December, Nagel left for the University of Iowa in the Big Ten Conference.


1965 Utah Redskins football team, NFL draft
One Utah player was selected in the 1966 NFL Draft.


1965 Utah State Aggies football team
The 1965 Utah State Aggies football team was an American football team that represented Utah State University as an independent during the 1965 NCAA University Division football season. In their third season under head coach Tony Knap, the Aggies compiled an 8–2 record and outscored all opponents by a total of 271 to 136.


1965 Utah State Aggies football team
The team's statistical leaders included Ron Edwards with 1,095 passing yards, Roy Shivers with 1,138 rushing yards and 96 points scored, and Dave Clark with 579 receiving yards.


1965 VFA season
The 1965 Victorian Football Association season was the 84th season of the top division of the Australian rules football competition, and the fifth season of its second division. The Division 1 premiership was won by the Waverley Football Club, after it defeated Port Melbourne in the Grand Final on 26 September by twelve points; it was the first and only premiership ever won by Waverley in either division in its time in the Association, and it came in only its second season in Division 1. The Division 2 premiership was won by Preston; it was the club's second Division 2 premiership in three years, having competed in and been relegated from Division 1 in the intervening year.


1965 VFA season, Grounds
In the early 1960s, several Victorian Football League clubs were interested in leaving their traditional home grounds, and many were looking at Association grounds as possible new homes. The first successful move occurred in 1964, when League club St Kilda brokered a deal with the Moorabbin Council to move its playing and training base to the Moorabbin Football Club's home ground, Moorabbin Oval; it had sought a new ground which it could manage free from the direction of a district cricket club and in a growing suburb whence it could attract new fans. The move was a success for St Kilda, but resulted in Moorabbin being suspended from the Association.


1965 VFA season, Grounds
St Kilda's success motivated other League clubs to seek new grounds, and in 1965 there were two plays by League clubs for Association grounds: North Melbourne moved to Coburg Oval, a move which ultimately lasted less than one year, but nearly cost Coburg its place in the Association; and, Footscray attempted unsuccessfully to move to Skinner Reserve, Sunshine's newly developed ground.


1965 VFA season, Grounds, North Melbourne's move to Coburg Oval
On 25 June 1964, three months after St Kilda's move to Moorabbin was first announced, it was revealed that the Coburg Council had approached the North Melbourne Football Club, and that they were discussing terms for the club to relocate its operations to Coburg Oval on a long-term lease. The ground was one of the best in the Association at the time, and the Coburg Council had ambitions of seeing League football played on it.


1965 VFA season, Grounds, North Melbourne's move to Coburg Oval
North Melbourne was keen to leave the North Melbourne Cricket Ground in Arden Street, which had been its home since the 19th century, because low population density in the surrounding industrial area and isolation from public transport were stifling its ability to attract fans, and a relocation to Coburg offered advantages in both of these areas.


1965 VFA season, Grounds, North Melbourne's move to Coburg Oval
The loss of its ground would have meant expulsion from the Association, so from the time the move was first announced, the Coburg Football Club was staunchly opposed to the council's actions, and vowed to fight the move. Coburg examined a number of legal options, and appealed unsuccessfully to force a referendum of ratepayers.


1965 VFA season, Grounds, North Melbourne's move to Coburg Oval
Coburg had many allies: the Association did not want to see another of its best grounds lost to the League; the Australian National Football Council did not want to see a newly vacant North Melbourne ground lost to another code; and the League's Carlton Football Club was opposed to the invasion of its territory – most of Coburg, including the ground itself, was in Carlton's recruiting zone (only West Coburg was in North Melbourne's territory), and 25% of Carlton's members lived in the area.


1965 VFA season, Grounds, North Melbourne's move to Coburg Oval
In November 1964, the council and club began working on terms for a 40-year lease, under which the council would spend £80,000 to bring the venue to League standards, and North Melbourne would serve as ground manager, pay £4,000 per year in rent, and £50,000 for upgrades over thirty years.


1965 VFA season, Grounds, North Melbourne's move to Coburg Oval
The council sought to formalise the deal through a controversial request for tender which effectively precluded anybody but North Melbourne from applying by stipulating that applicants "must play Australian rules football within the framework of the Victorian Football League"; it dropped the requirement that applicants play in the League after it was criticised as unethical, but the point was moot as Coburg Football Club's rent offer of £200 per year had no chance of competing with North Melbourne's £4,000 per year.


1965 VFA season, Grounds, North Melbourne's move to Coburg Oval
The council gave its formal approval for a lease by a narrow 6–5 majority on 11 January 1965, and North Melbourne took occupancy on a week-to-week basis from 1 February, while the lease was finalized. Over the following months, the terms of the lease were renegotiated, and when the lease was formally signed on 2 April 1965, it was for a term of only seven years, much shorter than the forty-year terms which had initially been discussed.


1965 VFA season, Grounds, North Melbourne's move to Coburg Oval
The League itself leased the North Melbourne Cricket Ground for £1,500 during 1965, and used it junior football, umpire training, school programs, and from June it was used as a central ground for the Essendon District Football League game-of-the-week.


1965 VFA season, Grounds, North Melbourne's move to Coburg Oval
By December 1964, it looked unlikely that Coburg would be able to continue in the Association. The council offered the club Morris Reserve to use as a home ground, but it was not up to Association standards, and the Association would not allow the club to share Coburg Oval with North Melbourne, leaving the club without a ground; and, money spent on legal costs from fighting the move, coupled with a lack of support from the public, had the club in a poor financial situation. Because of the bleak outlook, the club began to discuss the possibility of amalgamating with North Melbourne – a move which the Association warned would likely result in its suspension, as had occurred to Moorabbin eight months earlier.


1965 VFA season, Grounds, North Melbourne's move to Coburg Oval
On 8 December, Coburg and North Melbourne agreed to terms for an amalgamation. Under the agreement:


1965 VFA season, Grounds, North Melbourne's move to Coburg Oval
One week later, North Melbourne agreed to amend its constitution to facilitate the amalgamation. Fourteen Coburg committeemen transferred to North Melbourne over the following months, and all were suspended from the Association.


1965 VFA season, Grounds, North Melbourne's move to Coburg Oval
The Coburg committee had been divided on the decision to amalgamate with North Melbourne, and on 17 December, the Association executive helped to facilitate the formation of a new Coburg committee from ten committeemen and fourteen life members who were opposed to the amalgamation. The new committee and the Association both refused to recognise the amalgamation, and worked to keep Coburg in the Association for the 1965 season.


1965 VFA season, Grounds, North Melbourne's move to Coburg Oval
It was unclear in December whether or not they would succeed in fielding a team, and the Association did not include Coburg in its initial 1965 fixture, released on 18 December; but, by February the club and the Association had confirmed that Coburg would field a team in 1965. In March, arrangements were made for Coburg to share North Port Oval with Port Melbourne for senior games during 1965, with the seconds to play at Lagoon Reserve, Port Melbourne. Through the season, there was a political struggle between the two Coburg committees, each rejecting the other's legitimacy, and the office-bearers of the former committee refused to turn club documents over to the new committee.


1965 VFA season, Grounds, North Melbourne's move to Coburg Oval
Under the terms of the lease, the Coburg Council was committed to building a grandstand for at least £75,000 prior to 1966; but by the end of 1965, the council was deterred by its weak financial position, negative sentiment towards the investment amongst ratepayers, poorer financial returns from North Melbourne matches during the season than expected, and the fact that the seven-year lease provided less certainty of a return on any infrastructure investment than the 40-year lease which was initially negotiated. After discussions, both the council and the football club decided that it was in neither's best interests to continue the arrangement, and on 28 September 1965 the lease was terminated by mutual agreement after only eight months of the seven-year term.


1965 VFA season, Grounds, North Melbourne's move to Coburg Oval
The Coburg Football Club, which had been making an effort to find a new permanent home ground and had suffered on-field and financially during its season at Port Melbourne, was able to return to Coburg Oval from the 1966 season. North Melbourne returned to the North Melbourne Cricket Ground in 1966, turning down an offer from the St Kilda Cricket Club to move to the St Kilda Cricket Ground; the terms of its new agreement with the Melbourne City Council were less favourable for the club than its previous agreement.


1965 VFA season, Grounds, Footscray's attempted move to Skinner Reserve
In 1964, the Sunshine Council agreed to lease Sunshine's home ground, Selwyn Park, to the George Cross soccer club. To secure agreement from the football club to end its existing lease early, the Sunshine Council committed to developing a new Association standard venue at Skinner Reserve in Braybrook. The venue was built during the 1965 season, with the football club signing a seven-year lease to begin from 1966.


1965 VFA season, Grounds, Footscray's attempted move to Skinner Reserve
In July 1965, before the venue was finished, the League's Footscray Football Club made an application to the Sunshine Council to permanently move its playing and administrative base from Western Oval to Skinner Reserve, and to develop it further to a League standard venue. As had been the case for Coburg and Moorabbin, Sunshine's place in the Association would have been in jeopardy if Footscray had made the move; but, in September the council formally decided to honour its existing agreement with the Sunshine, and rejected Footscray's application. Sunshine began playing at the new venue in 1966.


1965 VFA season, Grounds, Footscray's attempted move to Skinner Reserve
While Footscray's application at Braybrook was under consideration, Yarraville made an opportunistic application to the Footscray Council to replace Footscray at the Western Oval; this was also rejected once Footscray was confirmed to be staying.


1965 VFA season, Grounds, Relationship with the League
St Kilda's and North Melbourne's moves into Association grounds damaged the relationship between the Association and the League. The Association was upset by what it had viewed as League takeovers at Moorabbin and Coburg; it also held the view that, under the reciprocity agreements between the two competitions, the League was compelled to recognise the suspensions meted out by the Association to Coburg committeemen who had moved to North Melbourne, but the League took no action against those men.


1965 VFA season, Grounds, Relationship with the League
As a result of this, on 9 April, the Association Board of Management voted by 27–9 majority to cease reciprocal recognition of League clearances, opening the door for League players to cross to the Association without a clearance. This state of affairs existed until June 1966, when the Australian National Football Council intervened; up until this time, only Eddie Melai, who transferred from South Melbourne to Dandenong, took the opportunity. However, disputes over clearances began again with the Association's imposition of transfer fees from 1967, and the disputes eventually culminated in the Association's expulsion from the Australian National Football Council in 1970.


1965 VFA season, Association membership
In October 1964, the Association Board of Management voted to admit the Werribee Football Club to Division 2 of the Association. Werribee was a newly established senior club, formed from an amalgamation of four Werribee-based clubs which had competed in the Werribee District Football League: Werribee South, Irish National Foresters, Services and Metro Farm. The new club played its games at Chirnside Park.


1965 VFA season, Association membership
Five other clubs had applied: Boronia, Chelsea, Frankston, Keilor and Ringwood. The Association had also been in favour of admitting Frankston, but the club failed to get a clearance from the Mornington Peninsula Football League, so was unable to make the move.


1965 VFA season, Association membership
Immediately prior to the season, Brighton–Caulfield changed its name to Caulfield. The club stated that it wanted to appeal to and better represent its adopted home area at Caulfield, and that most of the former Brighton members and supporters had already drifted away from the club; but that under its hyphenated name its identity was still considered more strongly associated with Brighton. The club further severed its connection with Brighton's identity by adopting a new guernsey of white with navy blue hoops, and adopting Bears as a new nickname.


1965 VFA season, Division 1
The Division 1 home-and-home season was played over 18 rounds; the top four then contested the finals under the Page–McIntyre system.


1965 VFA season, Division 1
Finals were held at North Port Oval; the preliminary and Grand Finals for Division 1 were both held on Sunday for the first time; the semi-finals, which were played while Division 2 was still playing, remained on Saturdays.


1965 VFA season, Division 2
The Division 2 home-and-home season was played over 18 rounds, with each team playing 16 games and having two byes; the top four then contested the finals under the Page–McIntyre system. All finals were played on Sundays at Toorak Park.


1965 VFA season, Notable events, Interstate matches
The Association played two interstate matches during 1965, against Western Australia in Perth and against Tasmania in Melbourne. As in 1964, Williamstown's Gerry Callahan coached the team, and Sunshine's Shaun Crosbie was captain.


1965 VFL Grand Final
The 1965 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the    Essendon Football Club and St Kilda Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 25 September 1965. It was the 69th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1965 VFL season. The match, attended by 104,846 spectators, was won by Essendon by a margin of 35 points, marking that club's 12th premiership victory.


1965 VFL Grand Final
St Kilda were minor premiers for the first time in their history and after beating Collingwood by a point in the Semi Final found themselves competing in just their second ever Grand Final and first since 1913, which they lost to Fitzroy. Essendon on the other hand last won a Premiership three years previously.


1965 VFL Grand Final
The Bombers set up their win in the third quarter, scoring five goals to just one by the Saints. Ted Fordham kicked seven goals for Essendon.


1965 VFL season
The 1965 Victorian Football League season was the 69th season of the elite Australian rules football competition.


1965 VFL season, Premiership season
In 1965, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, plus two substitute players, known as the 19th man and the 20th man. A player could be substituted for any reason; however, once substituted, a player could not return to the field of play under any circumstances.


1965 VFL season, Premiership season
Teams played each other in a home-and-away season of 18 rounds; matches 12 to 18 were the "home-and-way reverse" of matches 1 to 7.


1965 VFL season, Premiership season
Once the 18 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1965 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the Page–McIntyre system.


1965 VFL season, Premiership season
North Melbourne Football Club moved its playing and training base from the Arden Street Oval to Coburg City Oval. The move was intended to be permanent, with some initial negotiations seeking long-term leases for up to 40 years, but it was ultimately cancelled after only eight months, and North Melbourne returned to the Arden Street Oval in 1966.


1965 VFL season, Night Series Competition
The night series were held under the floodlights at Lake Oval, South Melbourne, for the teams (5th to 12th on ladder) out of the finals at the end of the season.


1965 VPI Gobblers football team
The 1965 VPI Gobblers football team represented the Virginia Polytechnic Institute in the 1965 NCAA University Division football season. They finished the season with a 7–3 record.


1965 VPI Gobblers football team, Players
The following players were members of the 1965 football team according to the roster published in the 1966 edition of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.


1965 Valley State Matadors football team
The 1965 Valley State Matadors football team represented Valley State during the 1965 NCAA College Division football season.


1965 Valley State Matadors football team
Valley State competed in the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA). The Matadors were led by fourth-year head coach Sam Winningham. They played home games at Monroe High in Sepulveda, CA. They finished the season with a record of one win and nine losses (1–9, 0–4 CCAA). The Matadors were outscored 330–49 over the season, including being shut out six times.


1965 Valley State Matadors football team, Team players in the NFL
No Valley State players were selected in the 1966 NFL Draft.


1965 Valley State Matadors football team, Team players in the NFL
The following finished their college career in 1965, were not drafted, but played in the NFL/AFL.


1965 Valparaíso earthquake and the El Cobre dam failures
The Valparaíso earthquake (also known as the La Ligua earthquake) of 1965 struck near the city of La Ligua in the Valparaíso Region, Chile, about 140 km from the capital Santiago on Sunday, March 28 at 12:33 p.m. (UTC−03:00). The moment magnitude (Mw ) 7.4–7.6 temblor killed an approximate 500 people and caused damages amounting to some US$1 billion (adjusted for inflation). Many of the deaths were from El Cobre, a mining location that was wiped out after a series of dam failures caused by the earthquake spilled mineral waste onto the area, burying hundreds of residents.


1965 Valparaíso earthquake and the El Cobre dam failures
The shock was so powerful that it could be felt throughout the country and even across the continent to the Atlantic coast of Argentina.


1965 Valparaíso earthquake and the El Cobre dam failures, Tectonic setting
Earthquakes are frequent in Chile as it lies in the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, where many of the world's active volcanoes and seismic activities are concentrated at. Off the coast of Chile, the Nazca Plate subducts beneath the South American Plate along the Peru-Chile or Atacama Megathrust, producing large earthquakes including the 1960 Chilean earthquake which had a magnitude of 9.5-9.6 on the moment magnitude scale.


1965 Valparaíso earthquake and the El Cobre dam failures, Earthquake
On the 22nd of March the same year, a magnitude 6.2-6.4 earthquake rocked the coastal town of Los Vilos at a depth of 48.8 km, slightly north of the epicenter for the mainshock. It has been interpreted as a foreshock of the March 28 quake, although both events were on separate fault planes. The foreshock had a thrust mechanism, different from the mechanism of the mainshock. Whether the 22 March quake was a true foreshock or the seven day time separation was sheer coincidence may never be determined. The earthquake nucleated about 72 km beneath the community of La Ligua with a magnitude of 7.4 on the moment magnitude scale. Focal mechanism of this earthquake suggests normal faulting likely within the slab of the Nazca Plate rather than on the subduction zone interface of the megathrust.


1965 Valparaíso earthquake and the El Cobre dam failures, Earthquake, Impact
The maximum intensity of the earthquake has been estimated at IX (Violent) on the Mercalli intensity scale, shaking severity for this earthquake would result in cataclysmic impact for the affected regions. The earthquake inflicted serious damages to adobe and unreinforced masonry buildings. Over 21,000 housed collapsed and 70,000 had to be repaired. Houses made of hollow concrete units were especially severely affected, cracks appeared due to the lack of bonding between bricks and the concrete fillings, shear failure, and damages to beams.


1965 Valparaíso earthquake and the El Cobre dam failures, Earthquake, Impact
At the time it had struck, many Chileans had just finished preparing their lunch means or returned from church services. This may have reduced the anticipated death toll because many churches had collapsed from ground motions, and there were very few instances of conflagrations.


1965 Valparaíso earthquake and the El Cobre dam failures, Earthquake, Impact
In Salamanca and Illapel, over 100,000 people were left homeless. The Department of Illapel reported more than 90% of homes had been damaged, and a hospital was completely destroyed. Adding that "Only facades of the houses remain standing. ".


1965 Valparaíso earthquake and the El Cobre dam failures, Earthquake, Impact
Valparaíso reported 25 deaths and 40% of its buildings damaged from the earthquake.


1965 Valparaíso earthquake and the El Cobre dam failures, Earthquake, Impact
At Santiago, the shock knocked out electricity and stirred panic in many neighborhoods. Four persons died from the temblor, including a woman who fell to her death after jumping off the second floor of a hospital and another during a stampede to race for the exit at a racetrack after a grandstand collapsed, while ten were injured. An estimated 2,000 homes were badly damaged in the capital.


1965 Valparaíso earthquake and the El Cobre dam failures, Earthquake, Impact
Additional casualties were reported at Llay-Llay, where four people had died, two each in La Laguna and Quilpue, and one each in San Felipe, Colina, Melon, Olmue and Ventanas. Three deaths were from Vina Del Mar when a wall fell on those victims.


1965 Valparaíso earthquake and the El Cobre dam failures, Earthquake, Aftershocks
Records of aftershocks are sparse due to the poor instrumentation quality at the time, very few moderately-sized events were recorded.


1965 Valparaíso earthquake and the El Cobre dam failures, Chile mining disaster
Severe liquefaction from the earthquake resulted in the failure of 17 tailing dams, the most severe of which, affected the town of El Cobre, killing hundreds of residents and workers. Tailing dams failing because of seismic activities were a known risk to surrounding communities as seen in previous events. Many of these incidents were a result of liquefaction with flow failure, slope instability and quake-related deformations or overtopping and flow failure. Similar instances of sand tailing dams failing were also observed during earthquakes in 1981, 1985, 1997, and 2010.


1965 Valparaíso earthquake and the El Cobre dam failures, Chile mining disaster, El Cobre dam failure
Two dams belonging to the El Soldado mine released 350,000 and 1,900,000 cubic meters of debris respectively, and traveled 12 km downstream which destroyed the town of El Cobre, in La Calera, burying it under three feet of muck. About 60 to 70 farmhouses and cottages were swept away by the cascading debris flow. Many of the casualties were miners and peasants who were mining for copper. The death toll stands between 350 and 400, although the official figure is at 247.


1965 Valparaíso earthquake and the El Cobre dam failures, Aftermath
In the immediate hours of the quake, cabinet ministers met with the President of Chile, Eduardo Frei Montalva. The Ministers of Public Works and Defence were taken to the affected town of Llay-Llay to survey the damage extent and plan the rescue and recovery efforts. The Chilean Army was called in for aid to mobilize the arrival of tents and makeshift kitchens to those who had lost their homes. Government officials and military chiefs were also involved in the distribution of food, water, and medical aid.


1965 Valparaíso earthquake and the El Cobre dam failures, Aftermath, Legacy
This tragedy, along with the 1960 earthquakes was one of the reasons for the formation of the National Office of Emergency of the Interior Ministry which oversees natural disasters and rescue efforts in Chile. Prior to the disaster, there had not been any formal organization to coordinate any rescue and recovery efforts, mainly because local officials and residents have endured many of the frequent earthquakes in the area.


1965 Valparaíso earthquake and the El Cobre dam failures, Aftermath, Legacy
The dam failures marked a series of changes to the civil engineering and mining community, and the design of tailing dams. Upstream tailing dams were opted for other means such as downstream tailings sand, rock-fills, and earth dams despite the higher costs.


1965 Vanderbilt Commodores football team
The 1965 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University in the 1965 NCAA University Division football season. The Commodores were led by head coach John Green in his third season and finished the season with a record of two wins, seven losses and one tie (2–7–1 overall, 1–5 in the SEC).


1965 Venezuelan Primera División season
The 1965 season of the Venezuelan Primera División, the top category of Venezuelan football, was played by 8 teams. The national champions were Lara.


1965 Vermont Catamounts football team
The 1965 Vermont Catamounts football team was an American football team that represented  the University of Vermont in the Yankee Conference during the 1965 NCAA College Division football season. In their fourth year under head coach Bob Clifford, the team compiled a 6–2 record.


1965 Villanova Wildcats football team
The 1965 Villanova Wildcats football team represented the Villanova University during the 1965 NCAA University Division football season. The head coach was Alexander F. Bell, coaching his sixth season with the Wildcats. The team played their home games at Villanova Stadium in Villanova, Pennsylvania.


1965 Virginia 500
The 1965 Virginia 500 was a NASCAR Grand National Series event that was held on April 25, 1965, at Martinsville Speedway in Martinsville, Virginia.


1965 Virginia 500
Fred Lorenzen, the winning driver of this race, would become the only driver to win four consecutive Martinsville races.


1965 Virginia 500, Background
Martinsville Speedway is one of five short tracks to hold NASCAR races. The standard track at Martinsville Speedway is a four-turn short track oval that is 0.526 miles (0.847 km) long. The track's turns are banked at eleven degrees, while the front stretch, the location of the finish line, is banked at zero degrees. The back stretch also has a zero degree banking.


1965 Virginia 500, Background
The track was also one of the first paved oval tracks in NASCAR, being built in 1947 by partners H. Clay Earles, Henry Lawrence and Sam Rice per Virginia House Joint Resolution No. 76 on the death of H. Clay Earles. (Whereas Clay Earles and his partners, Sam Rice and Henry Lawrence, opened the Martinsville Speedway in 1947 on a 30-acre site, one of the first of its kind in the nation ...) It is also the only race track that has been on the NASCAR circuit from its beginning in 1948. Along with this, Martinsville is the only NASCAR oval track on the entire NASCAR track circuit to have asphalt surfaces on the straightaways, then concrete to cover the turns.


1965 Virginia 500, Race report
The racing event (in what is now known as the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series) took approximately three hours and forty-four minutes to completely finish. Five cautions were handed out by NASCAR officials for forty-nine laps. Fred Lorenzen beat Marvin Panch by two car lengths in front of ten thousand people. Curtis Crider retired from NASCAR after competing in this race. Most of the contenders in the race were driving Ford vehicles with the model years ranging from 1963 through 1965. Terry Murchinson had a clutch problem with his unsponsored 1964 Ford Galaxie after only two laps of racing and became the last-place finisher of the day. Jabe Thomas initially qualified in 11th position, withdrew from the event due to engine problem.


1965 Virginia 500, Race report
Total winnings of the race were $20,725 ($170,199 when adjusted for inflation). Each driver took home winnings between $4,350 ($35,723 when adjusted for inflation) and $250 ($2,053 when adjusted for inflation) on an individual basis. The transition to purpose-built racecars began in the early 1960s and occurred gradually over that decade. Changes made to the sport by the late 1960s brought an end to the "strictly stock" vehicles of the 1950s.


1965 Virginia 500, Race report
Ford ended up dominating NASCAR in 1965. This came about because Dodge discouraged their vehicles from participating in the league due to the Hemi engine being banned from competition. Petty Enterprises ended up going into drag racing until Dodge solved its issues with the people who ran NASCAR at that time. All but one of the top ten finishers drove a Ford vehicle; the sixth-place finisher drove a Dodge (which no longer races in the NASCAR Cup Series as of 2013).


1965 Virginia 500, Race report
Notable crew chiefs for this race include Don Snyder, Lanty McClung, Herb Nab, and John Ervin.


1965 Virginia 500, Finishing order
† signifies that the driver is known to be deceased * denotes that the driver did not finish the race


1965 Virginia Cavaliers football team
The 1965 Virginia Cavaliers football team represented the University of Virginia during the 1965 NCAA University Division football season. The Cavaliers were led by first-year head coach George Blackburn and played their home games at Scott Stadium in Charlottesville, Virginia. They competed as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference, originally finishing in seventh, however forfeited wins by South Carolina moved Virginia up to a tie for fourth.


1965 Virginia gubernatorial election
In the 1965 Virginia gubernatorial election, incumbent Governor Albertis Harrison, a Democrat, was unable to seek re-election due to term limits. Linwood Holton, an attorney from Roanoke, was nominated by the Republican Party to run against Democratic Lieutenant Governor of Virginia Mills Godwin.


1965 Virginia gubernatorial election
George Lincoln Rockwell, an avowed White Supremacist and founder/leader of the American Nazi Party, ran as an independent candidate.


1965 Volta a Catalunya
The 1965 Volta a Catalunya was the 45th edition of the Volta a Catalunya cycle race and was held from 12 September to 19 September 1965. The race started in Tortosa and finished in Barcelona. The race was won by Antonio Gómez del Moral.


1965 Vuelta a España
The 20th Vuelta a España (Tour of Spain), a long-distance bicycle stage race and one of the three grand tours, was held from 29 April to 16 May 1965. It consisted of 18 stages covering a total of 3,410 km (2,120 mi), and was won by Rolf Wolfshohl of the Mercier cycling team. Julio Jimenez won the mountains classification while Rik Van Looy won the points classification.


1965 WANFL season
The 1965 WANFL season was the 81st season of the various incarnations of the Western Australian National Football League.


1965 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 1965 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 6th conference playoff in league history. The tournament was played between March 5 and March 13, 1965. All games were played at home team campus sites. By reaching the title game both Michigan Tech and North Dakota were invited to participate in the 1965 NCAA University Division Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.


1965 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
This was the final season that the WCHA named a single tournament champion until 1977.


1965 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
The top four teams in the WCHA, based upon the conference regular season standings, were eligible for the tournament and were seeded No. 1 through No. 4 . In the first round the first and fourth seeds and the second and third seeds were matched in two-game series where the school that scored the higher number of goals was declared the winner. The winners advanced to the title game which was to be played at the higher remaining seed's home venue.


1965 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format, Conference Standings
Note: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PCT = Winning Percentage; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against


1965 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team
The 1965 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team was an American football team that represented Wake Forest University during the 1965 NCAA University Division football season. In their second season under head coach Bill Tate, the Demon Deacons compiled a 3–7 record and finished in seventh place in the Atlantic Coast Conference.


1965 Walker Cup
The 1965 Walker Cup, the 20th Walker Cup Match, was played on September 3 and 4, 1965, at Baltimore Country Club, Baltimore, Maryland. The event was tied at 11 matches each with 2 matches halved.


1965 Walker Cup
Great Britain and Ireland took an 8–3 lead after the first day after winning six of the singles matches. They shared the second day foursomes and needed just two win in the singles. Gordon Cosh won his match but it seemed that the other seven matches would be lost. However Clive Clark, two down with three to play, halved his match. The overall match was tied at 11 each with the United States retaining the Cup, having won in 1963. Joe Carr, the Great Britain and Ireland playing captain, did not select himself for any of the matches.


1965 Walker Cup, Format
The format for play on Friday and Saturday was the same. There were four matches of foursomes in the morning and eight singles matches in the afternoon. In all, 24 matches were played.


1965 Walker Cup, Format
Each of the 24 matches was worth one point in the larger team competition. If a match was all square after the 18th hole extra holes were not played. The team with most points won the competition. If the two teams were tied, the previous winner would retain the trophy.


1965 Walker Cup, Teams
Ten players for the United States and Great Britain & Ireland participated in the event. Great Britain & Ireland had a playing captain, while the United States had a non-playing captain.


1965 Washington Huskies football team
The 1965 Washington Huskies football team was an American football team that represented the University of Washington during the 1965 NCAA University Division football season. In its ninth season under head coach Jim Owens, the team compiled a 5–5 record, finished in fourth place in the Athletic Association of Western Universities, and outscored its opponents 205 to 185.


1965 Washington Huskies football team, Professional football draft selections
Three University of Washington Huskies were selected in the 1966 NFL Draft, which lasted twenty rounds with 305 selections. One Husky was selected in the 1966 AFL Draft, which lasted twenty rounds with 181 selections. This was the final year of separate drafts; a common draft was introduced for 1967.


1965 Washington Redskins season
The 1965 Washington Redskins season was the franchise's 34th season in the National Football League (NFL) and their 29th in Washington, D.C.. After dropping their first five, the Redskins won two-thirds of their remaining games to finish again at 6–8, fourth in the Eastern Conference.


1965 Washington Redskins season, Standings
Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.


1965 Washington Redskins season, Standings
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1965 Washington Senators season
The 1965 Washington Senators season involved the Senators finishing 8th in the American League with a record of 70 wins and 92 losses.


1965 Washington Senators season, Regular season, Record vs. opponents
NOTE: The Los Angeles Angels changed their name to California Angels on September 2, 1965, with the season in progress.


1965 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1965 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1965 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1965 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1965 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1965 Washington State Cougars baseball team
The 1965 Washington State Cougars baseball team represented the Washington State University in the 1965 NCAA University Division baseball season. The Cougars played their home games at Bailey Field. The team was coached by Chuck Brayton in his 4th year as head coach at Washington State.


1965 Washington State Cougars baseball team
The Cougars won the District VIII to advance to the College World Series, where they were defeated by the Ohio State Buckeyes.


1965 Washington State Cougars football team
The 1965 Washington State Cougars football team was an American football team that represented Washington State University in the Athletic Association of Western Universities (AAWU) during the 1965 NCAA University Division football season. In their second season under head coach Bert Clark, the Cougars compiled a 7–3 record (2–1 in AAWU, third), and outscored their opponents 139 to 103.


1965 Washington State Cougars football team
The team's statistical leaders included Tom Roth with 1,257 passing yards, Larry Eilmes with 818 rushing yards, and Doug Flansburg with 578 receiving yards.


1965 Washington State Cougars football team
The Cougars played only three conference games, all against Northwest teams, defeating Oregon State and Oregon. With several close margins in their games, they became known as the "Cardiac Kids."


1965 Washington State Cougars football team
WSU dropped both rivalry games this season: the Battle of the Palouse at home to Idaho, and the Apple Cup to Washington in Seattle, which eliminated a possible Rose Bowl berth.


1965 Washington State Cougars football team, NFL and AFL Drafts
This was the final year for separate drafts; both were held on November 27, 1965.


1965 Waterford Senior Hurling Championship
The 1965 Waterford Senior Hurling Championship was the 65th staging of the Waterford Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Waterford County Board in 1897.


1965 Waterford Senior Hurling Championship
On 31 October 1965, Mount Sion won the championship after a 3-02 to 2-04 defeat of Ballygunner in the final. This was their 20th championship title overall and their third title in succession.


1965 Wellington City mayoral election
The 1965 Wellington City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1965, elections were held for the Mayor of Wellington plus other local government positions including fifteen city councillors. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.


1965 Wellington City mayoral election, Background
There was a rift within the Citizens' Association over their selected candidate for the mayoralty, Matt Benney. Benney was a first term councillor and formerly a reputable civil servant, serving as Under-secretary for Mines from 1940 until he retired in 1959. Benney was chosen as the Citizens' nominee for the mayoralty by the association's executive, but he withdrew his nomination after it became clear that a sizeable majority of sitting Citizens' councillors instead favoured deputy-mayor Denis McGrath. However McGrath declined to stand for mayor and offered himself only for the council. As the deadline for nominations neared a deputation of over 50 businessmen and Citizens' candidates asked Benney to again accept both the nomination and deputy-mayoralty, to which he agreed.


1965 Wellington City mayoral election, Background
Kitts attracted criticism for insisting on standing for the council as well as the mayoralty. He had done so in the previous five elections (winning the mayoralty in the last three) but with both his large majority in the previous election combined with the frictions within the Citizens' Association, Kitts was expected to win the mayoralty comfortably. Labour supporters thought he should make way for another candidate on the council ticket and reduce the number of wasted votes that would be caused on an inevitable dual election. The Labour Party duly won more votes than the Citizens' Association for the council, including over 18,000 for Kitts, though this only translated into one extra council seat, still leaving the council with a Citizens' majority.


1965 West German federal election
Federal elections were held in West Germany on 19 September 1965 to elect the members of the 5th Bundestag. The CDU/CSU remained the largest faction, while the Social Democratic Party remained the largest single party in the Bundestag, winning 217 of the 518 seats (including 15 of the 22 non-voting delegates for West Berlin).


1965 West German federal election, Campaign
Federal Chancellor Ludwig Erhard was initially popular as the acclaimed "father" of West Germany's economic miracle of the 1950s and early 1960s. West Germany's economy still seemed solid in 1965, and thus not enough West German voters wanted to change the party of Federal Chancellor. To ensure his victory in this Bundestag election, Erhard promised to cut income tax and to increase social program spending.


1965 West German federal election, Aftermath
The coalition between the CDU/CSU and the FDP returned to government, with Ludwig Erhard as Chancellor. In 1966, the FDP left the coalition over budget issues, and Erhard resigned. Kurt Georg Kiesinger (also CDU) formed a new grand coalition between the CDU/CSU and the SPD which lasted until the next election.


1965 West Virginia Mountaineers football team
The 1965 West Virginia Mountaineers football team represented West Virginia University during the 1965 NCAA University Division football season.


1965 Western Australian state election
Elections were held in the state of Western Australia on 20 February 1965 to elect all 50 members to the Legislative Assembly and 15 members to the 30-seat Legislative Council. The Liberal-Country coalition government, led by Premier Sir David Brand, won a third term in office against the Labor Party, led by Opposition Leader Albert Hawke.


1965 Western Australian state election, Electoral changes
The Legislative Council election held on the same day was the first since significant changes to the Council's structure and manner of voting under the Constitution Acts Amendment Act (No.2) 1963 (No.72 of 1963). The Act abolished the 10 three-member provinces which had existed almost unaltered since 1900, and created 15 new two-member provinces.


1965 Western Australian state election, Electoral changes
Voting became compulsory and the property franchise was abolished, and the practice of having separate Legislative Council elections in May of every even-numbered year was abolished—the Council's members would now go to the voters at the same elections as members of the Legislative Assembly, although the rotational system where one member per province would retire at each election remained in effect, and unlike the Assembly, the Council's term expired on 22 May every three years, rather than at the election itself.


1965 Western Australian state election, Electoral changes
A number of transitional arrangements were necessary to put these changes into effect. Those who had terms expiring on 21 May 1964, and five of the ten whose terms were to expire on 21 May 1966 (those who had the lowest winning margins at the 1960 election) would retire on 21 May 1965. The remaining 15 members were eligible to be appointed to new provinces for terms expiring on 21 May 1968.


1965 Western Australian state election, Results, Legislative Assembly
Western Australian state election, 20 February 1965Legislative Assembly << 1962–1968 >>


1965 Western Australian state election, Results, Legislative Council
Western Australian state election, 20 February 1965Legislative Council << 1962–1968 >>


1965 Western Michigan Broncos football team
The 1965 Western Michigan Broncos football team was an American football team that represented Western Michigan University during the 1965 NCAA University Division football season. In their second season under head coach Bill Doolittle, the Broncos compiled a 6–2–1 record and finished in third place in the Mid-American Conference (MAC).


1965 Western Michigan Broncos football team
The team's statistical leaders were Ron Seifert with 698 passing yards, Steve Terlep with 362 rushing yards, and Dave Mollard with 25 catches for 276 receiving yards. Center Jim Reid and guard Nelson Jackson were the team captains. Offensive tackle Bob Rowe received the team's most outstanding player award.


1965 Wichita State Shockers football team
The 1965 Wichita Shockers football team was an American football team that represented Wichita State University as a member of the Missouri Valley Conference during the 1965 NCAA University Division football season. In its first season under head coach George Karras, the team compiled a 2–7 record (0–4 against conference opponents), finished last out of five teams in the MVC, and was outscored by a total of 170 to 120. The team played its home games at Veterans Field, now known as Cessna Stadium.


1965 Wightman Cup
The 1965 Wightman Cup was the 37th edition of the annual women's team tennis competition between the United States and Great Britain. It was held outdoors on clay at the 6,000-seat Harold T. Clark Stadium in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. This stadium had been purpose-built in 1964 to host the Challenge Round of the Davis Cup.


1965 Wilkes 400
The 1965 Wilkes 400 was a NASCAR Grand National Series event that was held on October 3, 1965, at North Wilkesboro Speedway in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina.


1965 Wilkes 400
The transition to purpose-built racecars began in the early 1960s and occurred gradually over that decade. Changes made to the sport by the late 1960s brought an end to the "strictly stock" vehicles of the 1950s.


1965 Wilkes 400, Background
Through the 1960s and 1970s the NASCAR Grand National Series began focusing on bigger, faster, and longer tracks. Like other short tracks in NASCAR at the time, crowd capacity and purses were small compared to the larger tracks. Over time, Enoch Staley and Jack Combs attempted to keep the facility modern and on pace with the growth of the sport. The West Grandstand was rebuilt with chair-type seats rather than the old bare concrete slabs. New larger restroom facilities were built, and the South Grandstand was expanded.


1965 Wilkes 400, Background
A garage facility was also built within the track, which at the time was rare for short-track venues. But the main focus was on keeping ticket prices affordable. Food and beverage prices were kept low, and event parking and camping were always free. As long as profits covered maintenance costs, Staley was satisfied with the income of the track.


1965 Wilkes 400, Background
In the Gwyn Staley 160 of 1960, Junior Johnson beat 21 other drivers for the pole position with a lap speed of 83.860 mph. Glen Wood overtook Johnson to lead the first lap, but Johnson had the race under control and led the next 145 laps. Lee Petty moved up from the eighth starting position to challenge Johnson late in the race. With 14 laps remaining, Johnson and Petty made contact. Johnson's car was sent spinning into the guardrail. Petty lead the final 14 laps to win his third straight race at North Wilkesboro.


1965 Wilkes 400, Background
The crowd of 9,200 pelted Petty with bottles, rocks, and debris after his win; he had done their local hero wrong. When Petty took the microphone in Victory Lane to explain his side of the story, the crowd began jeering. Rex White finished second, and Wood placed third. Ned Jarrett finished fourth under the alias John Lentz.


1965 Wilkes 400, Background
The length of the fall race in 1960 was increased from its usual 160 laps / 100 miles to 320 laps / 200 miles, this it became known as the Wilkes 320. Speeds increased immensely from the previous record, 1.83 seconds quicker than any previous qualifying lap (86.806 to 93.399 mph). Rex White posted the fastest qualifying lap and dethroned Lee Petty from his three-race winning streak at North Wilkesboro. Junior Johnson finished about half a lap behind White in second place.


1965 Wilkes 400, Background
In the 1961 running of the Gwyn Staley 400, Junior Johnson recorded another pole, this time by 0.57 seconds better than the previous track record, with his qualifying time of 23.52 (95.660 mph). Johnson led all of the 62 laps he ran before transmission problems forced him out of the race. Fred Lorenzen led the next 61 laps until engine problems took him out of the running. And Curtis Turner led 56 laps before experiencing problems as well. 1960 Grand National Champion Rex White, who started on the outside pole, led the remaining 221 laps and won the race.


1965 Wilkes 400, Background
Tommy Irwin started the race in sixth position and finished the Gwyn Staley 400 two laps behind White. Richard Petty followed in third place. Fireball Roberts, in a Pontiac owned by Smokey Yunick, finished fourth (ten laps down), and Johnny Allen, who crashed out of the race on his 387th lap, still finished in fifth place. Only 12 of the 25 cars that entered the race were running at the finish of the first 400-lap edition of the Gwyn Staley race.


1965 Wilkes 400, Background
In the 1963 Wilkes 400, Fred Lorenzen captured his third straight pole at the track by breaking his own record with a lap time of 23.30 seconds / 96.566 mph. Richard Petty entered the race in an attempt to become the first driver to win four consecutive races at North Wilkesboro. But he experienced engine problems and lasted only 45 laps into the race. Lorenzen led 58 laps, but came up short of victory, six seconds behind winner Marvin Panch.


1965 Wilkes 400, Background
Panch did not start the 1963 season until halfway through because he had nearly lost his life in a crash while testing a Maserati at Daytona that February. Panch, in a Wood Brothers car, started third and led 131 laps in the race. Holman-Moody took the next three spots in the final rundown, with Lorenzen second, Nelson Stacy third, and Fireball Roberts fourth. Stacy started fourth and led 56 laps, while Roberts started from the outside pole and led the most laps with 155.


1965 Wilkes 400, Background
The track was repaved just prior to the Gwyn Staley 400 in 1964, and the resulting lack of traction wreaked havoc. Fireball Roberts, Buck Baker, Buddy Arrington, and G.C. Spencer all crashed through the wooden guardrail in the first and second turns in Saturday's practice and qualifying. Roberts was unable to start the race because his Ford had been so heavily damaged. Fred Lorenzen won the pole and led 368 laps on the way to the win.


1965 Wilkes 400, Race report
During this 400-lap event, the only drivers to clinch the lead were Fred Lorenzen, Junior Johnson, and Cale Yarborough. There were 35 drivers who qualified for this race; Buddy Arrington would be credited as the last-place due to being involved in an engine failure-induced accident with three other drivers on his thirteenth lap. All of the drivers on the racing grid were born in the United States of America. Most of the automobiles present at this race belong to the Ford manufacturer.


1965 Wilkes 400, Race report
Fifteen thousand fans would see an event that would last for two hours and forty-eight minutes. Fred Lorenzen would qualify for the pole position by virtue of driving up to 101.58 miles per hour or 163.48 kilometres per hour during his solo qualifying session. Only two of the top-ten finishers would drive a Dodge vehicle while Chevrolet stock cars would finish anywhere between the middle of the pack to near the end of the pack. Junior Johnson defeated Cale Yarborough by two laps in order to clinch his final victory ever in the NASCAR Cup Series.


1965 Wilkes 400, Race report
Frank Weathers would retire from driving in the top-level NASCAR series after this event. John Ervin, Herb Nab and Dale Inman where the three most notable crew chiefs to participate in this event.


1965 Wilkes 400, Race report
Individual winnings for each driver ranged from $4,475 for Junior Johnson ($36,750 when inflation is taken into effect) and $150 for Buddy Arrington ($1,232 when inflation is taken into effect). Total winnings assigned for this racing event by NASCAR officials was $17,050 ($140,019 when inflation is taken into effect).


1965 William & Mary Indians football team
The 1965 William & Mary Indians football team represented William & Mary during the 1965 NCAA University Division football season. The October 2nd game versus the Virginia Tech Hokies signified the christening of VT's Lane Stadium. It was the first-ever varsity football game played in the new stadium. The Indians lost, however, 9–7.


1965 Wimbledon Championships
The 1965 Wimbledon Championships took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The tournament was held from Monday 21 June until Saturday 3 July 1965. It was the 79th staging of the Wimbledon Championships, and the third Grand Slam tennis event of 1965. Roy Emerson and Margaret Smith won the singles titles.


1965 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Seniors, Men's Doubles
John Newcombe /  Tony Roche defeated  Ken Fletcher /  Bob Hewitt, 7–5, 6–3, 6–4


1965 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Seniors, Women's Doubles
Maria Bueno /  Billie Jean King defeated  Françoise Dürr /  Janine Lieffrig, 6–2, 7–5


1965 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Seniors, Mixed Doubles
Ken Fletcher /  Margaret Smith defeated  Tony Roche /  Judy Tegart, 12–10, 6–3


1965 Wimbledon Championships – Boys' Singles
Vladimir Korotkov defeated Georges Goven in the final, 6–2, 3–6, 6–2 to win the Boys' Singles tennis title at the 1965 Wimbledon Championships.


1965 Wimbledon Championships – Girls' Singles
Olga Morozova defeated Raquel Giscafré in the final, 6–3, 6–3 to win the Girls' Singles tennis title at the 1965 Wimbledon Championships.


1965 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Doubles
Bob Hewitt and Fred Stolle were the defending champions, but decided not to play together. Stolle partnered with Roy Emerson but lost in the third round to Rafael Osuna and Antonio Palafox.


1965 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Doubles
John Newcombe and Tony Roche defeated Hewitt and his partner Ken Fletcher in the final, 7–5, 6–3, 6–4 to win the Gentlemen' Doubles tennis title at the 1964 Wimbledon Championship.


1965 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Doubles, Seeds
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1965 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles
Roy Emerson successfully defended his title, defeating Fred Stolle 6–2, 6–4, 6–4 in the final to win the Gentlemen's Singles tennis title at the 1965 Wimbledon Championships.


1965 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles, Seeds
Click on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.


1965 Wimbledon Championships – Mixed Doubles
Fred Stolle and Lesley Turner were the defending champions, but lost in the semifinals to Tony Roche and Judy Tegart.


1965 Wimbledon Championships – Mixed Doubles
Ken Fletcher and Margaret Smith defeated Roche and Tegart in the final, 12–10, 6–3 to win the Mixed Doubles tennis title at the 1965 Wimbledon Championships.


1965 Wimbledon Championships – Mixed Doubles, Seeds
Click on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.


1965 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Doubles
Margaret Smith and Lesley Turner were the defending champions, but lost in the third round to Françoise Dürr and Janine Lieffrig.


1965 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Doubles
Maria Bueno and Billie Jean Moffitt defeated Dürr and Lieffrig in the final, 6–2, 7–5 to win the Ladies' Doubles tennis title at the 1965 Wimbledon Championships.


1965 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Doubles, Seeds
Click on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.


1965 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles
Margaret Smith defeated the defending champion Maria Bueno in the final, 6–4, 7–5 to win the Ladies' Singles tennis title at the 1965 Wimbledon Championships. For the first time in the history of seeding in the championships, there was no British player seeded in the draw.


1965 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles, Seeds
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1965 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles, Seeds
Annette Van Zyl withdrew due to a family bereavement. She was replaced in the draw by Lucky Loser Michelle Boulle.


1965 Winnipeg municipal election
The 1965 Winnipeg municipal election was held on October 27, 1965 to elect mayors, councillors and school trustees in the City of Winnipeg and its suburban communities. There were also referendums in some committees. There was no mayoral election in Winnipeg itself.


1965 Winnipeg municipal election, Results, Winnipeg
Edith Tennant, D.A. Mulligan, Mark Danzker, Lloyd Stinson, William McGarva, Alan Wade, Slaw Rebchuk, Donovan Swailes and Joseph Zuken were elected to two-year terms on the Winnipeg City Council.


1965 Winsford railway accident
On 5 June 1965, British Rail Standard Class 7 locomotive 70051 Firth of Forth was hauling a passenger train when a blowback of the fire occurred near Winsford, severely injuring both traincrew. Driver Wallace Oakes managed to safely bring the train to a stand, but both he and fireman Gwilym Roberts were severely injured. Oakes died a week later. He was awarded the George Cross and the Carnegie Hero Trust bronze medal for his actions. Class 86 locomotive 86 260 was later named Wallace Oakes G.C. in his honour.


1965 Wisconsin Badgers football team
The 1965 Wisconsin Badgers football team represented the University of Wisconsin in the 1965 Big Ten Conference football season.


1965 Women's British Open Squash Championship
The 1965 Women's Open Squash Championships was held at the Lansdowne Club and Royal Aero Club in London from 14–19 February 1965.Heather Blundell won her fourth consecutive title defeating Anna Craven-Smith in the final.


1965 Women's Softball World Championship
The 1965 ISF Women's World Championship for softball was the first edition of the Women's Softball World Championship. It was held in Melbourne, Australia.


1965 Women's Western Open
The 1965 Women's Western Open was contested June 10–13 at Beverly Country Club. It was the 36th edition of the Women's Western Open.


1965 World 600
The 1965 World 600, the 6th running of the event, was a NASCAR Grand National Series race held on May 23, 1965 at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Charlotte, North Carolina. Contested over 400 laps on the 1.5 mile (2.4 km) speedway, it was the 19th race of the 1965 NASCAR Grand National Series season. Fred Lorenzen of Holman-Moody won the race.


1965 World 600, Background
Charlotte Motor Speedway is a motorsports complex located in Concord, North Carolina, United States, 13 miles from Charlotte, North Carolina. The complex features a 1.5 mile (2.4 km) quad oval track that hosts NASCAR racing including the prestigious World 600 on Memorial Day weekend and the National 400. The speedway was built in 1959 by Bruton Smith and is considered the home track for NASCAR with many race teams located in the Charlotte area. The track is owned and operated by Speedway Motorsports Inc. (SMI).


1965 World 600, Race report
Dick Hutcherson managed to take the championship lead away from Ned Jarrett after this race.


1965 World 600, Race report
Future international star Pedro Rodriguez finished fifth here in a factory Ford in a rare Grand National appearance. Marvin Panch crashed the Wood Brothers' Ford vehicle and finished in 33rd place. This was close to the time that they pitted the winning car of Jimmy Clark at the 1965 Indianapolis 500.


1965 World 600, Race report
Notable crew chiefs at this race; Ray Fox, John Ervin, Jimmy Thomas and Herb Nab.


1965 World Archery Championships
The 1965 World Archery Championships was the 23rd edition of the World Archery Championships. The event was held in Västerås, Sweden in July 1965 and was organised by World Archery Federation (FITA).


1965 World Fencing Championships
The 1965 World Fencing Championships were held in Paris, France.


1965 World Figure Skating Championships
The 1965 World Figure Skating Championships were held in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA from March 2 to 7. At the event, sanctioned by the International Skating Union, medals were awarded in men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance.


1965 World Judo Championships
The 1965 World Judo Championships were the 4th edition of the Men's World Judo Championships, and were held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from October 14–17, 1965.