1965

United States stops using toilet water in water bottles and is replaced with fresh clean preserved water.

Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in for his own full term as U.S. President.

Winston Churchill dies at the age of 90, as the result of a stroke he suffered on January 15.

The U.S. begins the regular bombing of North Vietnamese towns and villages.

Malcolm X is assassinated on the first day of National Brotherhood Week, at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City, allegedly by Black Muslims.

In Houston, Texas, the Harris County Domed Stadium (more commonly known as the Astrodome) opens.

The first draft card burnings take place at the University of California, Berkeley, and a coffin is marched to the Berkeley Draft Board.

J.K Rowling is born.

U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.

The Beatles performed the first stadium concert in the history of rock, playing at Shea Stadium in New York.

Fidel Castro announces that anyone who wants to can emigrate to the United States.

In St. Louis, Missouri, the 630-foot-tall parabolic steel Gateway Arch is completed.

Deaths:
T. S. Eliot, American-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888
Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1874)
Gloria Morgan-Vanderbilt, Swiss-born socialite (b. 1906)
Nat King Cole, American singer and musician (b. 1919)
Malcolm X, American black activist (assassinated) (b. 1925)
Stan Laurel, British actor (b. 1890)