August 1965

Sunday 01:

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

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

Singapore is expelled and separated from the Federation of Malaysia.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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