Also in 1965

• 23 of March - NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States' first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young).
• 15 of August - The Beatles play to nearly 60,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York City, an event later regarded as the birth of stadium rock.
• 16 of November - Venera program: The Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe toward Venus, which will be the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet.