August 1965

Sunday 01:

Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands announces her engagement to Claus von Amsberg.

Friday 06:

US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into United States law.

Saturday 07:

Singapore is expelled and separated from the Federation of Malaysia.

Monday 09:

Space disasters: A fire at a Titan missile base near Little Rock, Arkansas kills 53 construction workers.

Wednesday 11:

Race riots (the Watts riots) begin in Watts area of Los Angeles, California

Sunday 15:

John Coltrane plays in Chicago, Illinois for the Downbeat Jazz Festival with Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner.

Wednesday 18:

United States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in the first major American ground battle of the war.

Thursday 19:

Japanese prime minister Eisaku Sato becomes the first post-World War II sitting prime minister to visit Okinawa.

Monday 30:

Rock musician Bob Dylan releases his influential album Highway 61 Revisited featuring the song "Like a Rolling Stone."