Events from 1965

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1965

16 events
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1965 ID: 1812
Pope Paul VI completes Second Vatican Council, becomes first pope to visit United States
ID: 1812
1965 ID: 1813
Sandoz stops LSD production at U.S. government request
ID: 1813
1965 ID: 1814
Griswold v. Connecticut: Justice Black warns of 'great unconstitutional shift of power to the courts'
ID: 1814
1965 ID: 1815
US chemical abortions begin (estimated 756 million by 2019)
ID: 1815
1965 ID: 1816
Hoover Foundation incorporated with Rosenstiel as principal contributor
ID: 1816
1965 ID: 1817
Immigration Act opens US to European intellectuals, many with German academic backgrounds
ID: 1817
1965 ID: 1818
CEDADE (Spanish Nazi organization) officially founded in Barcelona
ID: 1818
1965 ID: 1819
First commercial communications satellite
ID: 1819
1965 ID: 1820
Medicare and Medicaid programs create specialized healthcare accounting requirements
ID: 1820
1965 ID: 1821
Gordon Moore proposes Moore's Law predicting exponential growth in computing power
ID: 1821
1965 ID: 1822
Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson discover cosmic microwave background radiation
ID: 1822
1965 ID: 1823
Kecksburg Incident - Large fireball crashes in Pennsylvania woods, military recovers acorn-shaped object
ID: 1823
1965 ID: 1824
Stephanie Kwolek at DuPont invents Kevlar, a revolutionary high-strength polymer
ID: 1824
1965 ID: 4504
Ted Nelson coins 'hypertext' and develops transclusion concept - include by reference not copy, enabling automatic update propagation
ID: 4504
1965 ID: 4320
March 1965
DEC introduces PDP-8 for $18,000 - first mass-produced minicomputer, sells 50,000 units
ID: 4320
1965 ID: 4321
April 1965
Gordon Moore predicts transistor density will double every year - Moore's Law shapes semiconductor industry
ID: 4321