1965

1965

• Medicare bill passes.
• 34 people die in Watts ghetto riot.
• 190,000 troops are in Vietnam.
• 32,000 people make 54-mile "freedom march" from Selma to Montgomery.
• 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 Cold Blood killers Richard Hickock and Perry Smith, convicted of murdering 4 members of the Herbert Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, are executed by hanging at the Kansas State
• Bob Dylan elicits controversy among folk purists by "going electric" at the Newport Folk Festival.
• Jefferson Airplane debuts at the Matrix in San Francisco, California and begins to appear there regularly.
• The Beatles performed the first stadium concert in the history of rock, playing at Shea Stadium in New York.
• At the Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt, 66 ex-SS personnel receive life sentences, 15 others smaller ones.
• Rock musician Bob Dylan releases his influential album Highway 61 Revisited, featuring the song "Like a Rolling Stone."
• The soap opera Days of our Lives debuts on NBC.
• A Charlie Brown Christmas, the first Peanuts television special, debuts on CBS.