Editing 1965 in politics (section)

=== August ===
*August 4 - The [[Cook Islands]] becomes a free [[New Zealand]]-[[associated state]], with its own [[constitution of the Cook Islands|constitution]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Cook_Islands.html|title=Cook Islands|publisher=World Statesmen|access-date=7 November 2012}}</ref>
*August 6 - U.S. President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] signs the [[Voting Rights Act of 1965]] into law, outlawing [[literacy test]]s and other discriminatory voting practices.
*August 9 - [[Singapore]] leaves [[Malaysia]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Singapore.html|title=Singapore|publisher=World Statesmen|access-date=24 January 2013}}</ref>
*August 11 - The [[Watts Riots]] begin in Los Angeles, ending on the 16th after resulting in 34 deaths and over 3,000 arrests.
*August 18 - [[Vietnam War]] – [[Operation Starlite]]: 5,500 [[United States Marines]] destroy a [[Viet Cong]] stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in [[Quảng Ngãi Province]], in the first major American ground battle of the war.
*August 19 - At the conclusion of the [[Frankfurt Auschwitz trials]], 66 ex-[[SS]] personnel receive [[life sentence]]s, 15 others smaller ones.
*August 20 - [[Jonathan Myrick Daniels]], an [[Episcopal Church (United States)|Episcopal]] seminarian from [[Keene, New Hampshire]], is murdered in [[Hayneville, Alabama]], while working in the [[civil rights movement]].
*August 31 - President Johnson signs a law penalizing the burning of draft cards with up to 5 years in prison and a $1,000 fine.