Editing 1965 (section)

===January&ndash;February===
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{{main|February 1965}}
* [[January 14]] &ndash; The First Minister of [[Northern Ireland]] and the [[Taoiseach]] of the [[Republic of Ireland]] meet for the first time in 43 years.
* [[January 20]] 
** [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] is [[Second inauguration of Lyndon B. Johnson|sworn in]] for a full term as President of the United States.
** [[Indonesia]]n President [[Sukarno]] announces the withdrawal of the Indonesian government from the United Nations.
* [[January 29]] &ndash; [[Tampere Ice Stadium|Hakametsä]], the first ice rink of Finland, is inaugurated in [[Tampere]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://yle.fi/a/3-7765473|title=Suomen ensimmäinen jäähalli täyttää 50 vuotta – "Hakamettä" on monelle kiekkoilijalle toinen koti|first=Kirsi|last=Matson-Mäkelä|work=[[Yle]]|date=29 January 2015|access-date=29 January 2025|language=fi}}</ref>
* [[January 30]] &ndash; The [[Death and state funeral of Winston Churchill|state funeral]] of Sir [[Winston Churchill]] takes place in London with the largest assembly of dignitaries in the world until the 2005 funeral of [[Pope John Paul II]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4421081.stm|work=[[BBC News]]|title=Holding history's largest funeral|date=2005-04-08|access-date=2010-03-29}}</ref>
* [[February 4]] &ndash; [[Trofim Lysenko]] is removed from his post as director of the Institute of Genetics at the [[Russian Academy of Sciences|Academy of Sciences]] in the Soviet Union. [[Lysenkoism|Lysenkoist]] theories are now treated as pseudoscience.<ref>{{cite journal|title=The descent of Lysenko|last=Cohen|first=Barry M.|journal=[[Journal of Heredity]]|volume=56|pages=229–33|year=1965|issue=5|doi=10.1093/oxfordjournals.jhered.a107425}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Joravsky|first=David|title=The Lysenko Affair|url=https://archive.org/details/lysenkoaffair0000jora|url-access=registration|location=Cambridge, Mass.|publisher=[[Harvard University Press]]|year=1970|series=Russian Research Center studies, 61|isbn=0-674-53985-0}}</ref>
* [[February 12]] &ndash; The African and [[Malagasy Republic|Malagasy]] Common Organization (''{{lang|fr|Organization Commune Africaine et Malgache}}''; OCAM) is formed as successor to the Afro-Malagasy Union for Economic Cooperation (''{{lang|fr|Union Africaine et Malgache de Cooperation Economique}}''; UAMCE), formerly the [[African and Malagasy Union]] (''{{lang|fr|Union Africaine et Malgache}}''; UAM).
[[File:Flag of the Gambia.svg|thumb|180px|February 18: Flag of the newly independent Gambia]]
* [[February 15]] &ndash; The [[maple leaf]] is adopted as the [[flag of Canada]], replacing the [[Canadian Red Ensign]] flag.
* [[February 18]] &ndash; [[The Gambia]] becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
* [[February 20]]
** ''[[Ranger 8]]'' crashes into the Moon, after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the [[Apollo program]] [[astronaut]]s.
** [[Suat Hayri Ürgüplü]] forms the new (interim) government of [[Turkey]] (29th government).
* [[February 21]] &ndash; [[Malcolm X]] is [[Assassination of Malcolm X|gunned down]] while giving a speech at the [[Audubon Ballroom]] in Harlem.