December 1965

Wednesday 01:

The Border Security Force is formed in India as a special force to guard the borders

Tuesday 07:

Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras simultaneously lift mutual excommunications that had been in place since 1054

Friday 10:

The Grateful Dead play their first concert, at the Fillmore in San Francisco.

Wednesday 15:

Gemini program: Gemini 6A is launched

Saturday 18:

Japan and South Korea begin formal relations

Sunday 19:

Prisoners Ronald Ryan and Peter Walker escape from Pentridge Prison, Melbourne. During the escape a guard is killed. Ryan would hang for his death, in 1967.

Thursday 30:

Ferdinand Marcos becomes President of the Philippines