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Months in Year 1965: January February March April May June July August September October November December

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Jan 2nd - NY Jets sign quarterback Joe Namath
Jan 10th - NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 34-14
Jan 16th - AFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 38-14
Jan 23rd - Boston Celtic center Bill Russell misses all 14 shots in loss to Philadelphia Warriors led by Wilt Chamberlain
Jan 31st - Pud Galvin elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
Feb 3rd - Braves offer Milwaukee $500,000 to terminate their lease a year earlier, the proposal is turned down
Feb 7th - Cassius Clay becomes a Muslim & adopts the name Muhammad Ali
Feb 11th - Braves propose to pay 5 cents from each ticket to bring a new team to Milwaukee
Feb 17th - US-Japan baseball relations suspended over Masanori Murakami dispute
Feb 19th - NFL adds 6th official
Mar 5th - Ernie Terrel beats Eddie Machen in 15 for Heavyweight boxing title
Mar 6th - Bruce Taylor hits 105 for NZ v India in 1st Test Cricket innings
Mar 20th - 27th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Michigan 91-80
Mar 21st - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open
Mar 26th - A truck loses control down Moosic Street, Scranton, Pennsylvania, killing the driver. This accident later inspired the 1974 Harry Chapin song, "30,000 Pounds of Bananas."
Mar 28th - Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA All State Ladies' Golf Invitational
Apr 4th - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Baton Rouge Golf Invitational
Apr 9th - 1st game at Astrodome, Houston beats Yankees 2-1 in exhibition as Mickey Mantle hits 1st indoor homerun
Apr 11th - 29th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 271
Golfer Jack Nicklaus Apr 12th - 1st NL game at Houston's Astrodome (Phillies beat Astros 2-0)
Apr 15th - NFL changes penalty flag from white to bright gold
Apr 19th - 69th Boston Marathon won by Morio Shigematsu of Japan in 2:16:33
Apr 24th - NY Met Casey Stengel wins his 3,000 game as manager
Apr 25th - 19th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 1
Apr 25th - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Pensacola Golf Invitational
May 1st - 91st Kentucky Derby: Bill Shoemaker on Lucky Debonair wins in 2:01.2
May 1st - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Chicago Blackhawks, 4 games to 3
May 2nd - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Golf Invitational
May 2nd - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open
May 4th - Willie Mays 512th HR breaks Mel Ott's 511th NL record
May 11th - West Indies becomes 1st holders of the Frank Worrell Cricket Trophy
May 15th - 91st Preakness: Ron Turcotte aboard Tom Rolfe wins in 1:56.2
May 15th - Canadian Football Players Association organizes
May 16th - Susie Maxwell wins LPGA Muskogee Civitan Golf Open
May 19th - West Ham United wins 5th Europe Cup II
May 23rd - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
May 25th - Muhammad Ali KOs Sonny Liston in 1 for Heavyweight boxing title
May 29th - Phillies Dick Allen hits 529' HR out of Connie Mack Stadium
May 30th - Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
Jun 5th - 97th Belmont: John Sellers aboard Hail to All wins in 2:28.6
Jun 6th - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Blue Grass Golf Invitational
Jun 6th - Yankees Tom Tresh bangs 3 consecutive HRs beating White Sox 12-0
Jun 12th - Morio Shigematsu runs world record marathon (2:12:00)
Jun 13th - Susie Maxwell wins LPGA Western Golf Open
Jun 14th - Cincinnati Red Jim Maloney no-hits NY Mets but loses in 11, 1-0
Jun 20th - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open
Jun 21st - 65th US Golf Open: Gary Player shoots 282 at Bellerive CC in St Louis
Jun 22nd - Freddie Trueman ends his Test cricket career, v NZ at Lord's
Jun 27th - Carol Mann wins LPGA Carling Golf Open
Jun 30th - NFL grants Atlanta Falcons a franchise
Jul 1st - FC Twente '65 Enschede soccer team forms in Enschede
Jul 2nd - 79th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Roy Emerson beats Fred Stolle (62 64 64)
Jul 3rd - 72nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith beats M Fraiser (64 75)
Jul 3rd - Phillies Dick Allen & Frank Thomas get into a fight during practice
Jul 4th - 20th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Carol Mann
Jul 9th - 94th British Golf Open: Peter Thomson shoots a 285 at Royal Birkdale
Jul 11th - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Midwest Golf Open
Jul 13th - 36th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-5 at Metropolitan Stadium, Minn
Jul 13th - All star MVP: Juan Marichal (SF Giant)
Jul 18th - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Yankee Golf Open
Jul 20th - NY Yankee pitcher Mel Stottlemyre hits an inside-the-park grand slam
Jul 23rd - Dick Stuart homers in a major league-record 23rd different park
Jul 24th - Casey Stengel resigns as manager of NY Mets
Jul 25th - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Tournament
Jul 29th - Major league record 26 strikeouts, Phillies (16), Pirates (10)
Aug 1st - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open
Aug 5th - Dave Marr wins PGA title
Aug 6th - 32nd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Cleveland 24, All-Stars 16 (68,000)
Aug 8th - Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Milwaukee Golf Open
Aug 12th - Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, Inc applies for a NL franchise
Aug 15th - 47th PGA Championship: Dave Marr shoots a 280 at Laurel Valley GC PA
Aug 15th - Mary Mills wins LPGA St Louis Golf Open
Aug 16th - AFL awards its 1st expansion franchise (Miami Dolphins)
Baseball Player Hank Aaron Aug 18th - Hank Aaron loses a HR, because he hit it out of batter's box
Aug 18th - Orioles' Brooks Robinson hits into his record tying (George Sisler)
Aug 19th - Cincinnati Red Jim Maloney 2nd no-hitter of year beats Chicago Cubs, 1-0
Aug 20th - Eddie Mathews & Hank Aaron (1954-65) pass Babe Ruth-Lou Gehrig hitting 772 HRs while playing together on the same team
Aug 22nd - Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Omaha Jaycee Golf Open
Aug 22nd - San Francisco Giants pitcher Juan Marachal hits LA Dodger catcher John Roseboro on the head with his bat causing a 14 minute brawl
Aug 29th - Willie Mays sets NL record for HRs in a month with his 17th of August
Aug 30th - Casey Stengel announces his retirement after 55 years in baseball
Sep 2nd - Cubs slugger Ernie Banks hits his 400th HR (off Curt Simmons)
Sep 3rd - Jim Hickman becomes 1st NY Met to hit 3 HRs in a game
Sep 9th - Sandy Koufax pitches his 4th no-hitter, a perfect game vs Cubs (1-0)
Sep 10th - Phillies 10,000th game to a decision since 1900, Phils beat Cards
Sep 11th - Braves 2nd straight one-hitter against the Mets
Sep 12th - 79th US Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith beats Billie Jean King (86 75)
Sep 12th - 85th US Mens Tennis: Manuel Santana beats Cliff Drysdale (62 79 75 61)
Hall of Fame MLB shortstop Ernie Banks Sep 12th - Manuel Santana wins US Tennis Open
Sep 12th - Mary Mills wins LPGA Eugene Golf Open
Sep 13th - Willie Mays's 500th HR (off Don Nottebart), Giants 11th straight win
Sep 16th - Boston Red Sox Dave Morehead no-hits Cleve Indians, 2-0
Sep 18th - Mickey Mantle Day at Yankee Stadium: Mantle play his 2,000th game
Sep 19th - Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Visalia Golf Open
Sep 26th - 11th LPGA Championship won by Sandra Haynie
Sep 29th - Ralph Boston of US, sets then Long Jump record at 27' 4 3/4"
Sep 29th - Phillies catcher Pat Corrales sets record by reaching base twice on catcher's interference in one game & 6 times in one season
Oct 2nd - Dodgers beat Braves to clinch NL pennant
Oct 2nd - Phillies' Chris Short strikes-out 18 NY Mets
Oct 3rd - Cubs tie major league record of 3 triple plays in a season
Oct 3rd - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational
Oct 3rd - Whitey Ford notches #232 to become Yankees winningest pitcher
Oct 8th - Once-Hertogenbosch soccer team FC de Bosch forms
Oct 9th - 16th Ryder Cup: US wins 19½-12½ at Royal Birkdale, England
Oct 14th - Sandy Koufax hurls his 2nd shutout of World Series beating Twins 2-0
Oct 15th - Dodgers & Sandy Koufax win 7th game of 62nd World Series vs Twins
Oct 20th - 19th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 5-2 at Montreal
Oct 24th - Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Phoenix Thunderbirds Golf Tournament
Oct 30th - Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Las Cruces Golf Open
Nov 1st - Ernie Terrel beats George Chuvalo in 15 for Heavyweight boxing
Nov 7th - Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Tall City Golf Open
Nov 9th - 1st NY Knick game postponed (black-out) vs St Louis
Nov 9th - Willie Mays named NL MVP
Nov 10th - Willie Mays wins NL MVP
Nov 11th - Heavyweight Cassius Clay KOs Floyd Patterson in Las Vegas
Nov 14th - Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Alamo Golf Open
Nov 17th - William Eckert is unanimously elected commissioner of baseball
Heavyweight Boxing Champ Muhammad Ali Nov 22nd - Muhammad Ali TKOs Floyd Patterson in 12 for Heavyweight boxing title
Nov 26th - Dodgers 2nd baseman Jim Lefebvre is voted NL Rookie of Year
Nov 27th - 53rd CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeat Winn Blue Bombers, 22-16
Nov 28th - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
Dec 4th - 2nd NY Knick game postponed (due to death of opponent 76ers' owner)
Dec 4th - SF Giant Masanori Murakami, 4-1 this year, does not renew his contract signing instead with the Nankai Hawks of Osaka for $40,000
Dec 9th - Frank Robinson is traded from Cincinnati to the Orioles
Dec 10th - Test Cricket debut of Doug Walters v England at the Gabba
Dec 12th - Gale Sayers of Chicago Bears scores 6 TDs, ties NFL record
Dec 15th - William Eckert replaces Ford Frick as 4th commissioner of baseball
Dec 26th - Buffalo Bills beat San Diego Chargers 23-0 in AFL championship game
Dec 29th - CBS purchases NFL TV rights for 1966-68 at $18.8 million per year