Set Description
Comics published in the month/year I was born.
To make my set (even) more interesting, I have researched (from various sources) and noted a sample of world events from October 1965:
3rd: Fidel Castro announces that Che Guevara has resigned and left the country. U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 which ends quotas based on national origin.
4th: At least 150 are killed when a commuter train derails at the outskirts of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Prime minister Ian Smith of Rhodesia and Arthur Bottomley of the Commonwealth of Nations begin negotiations in London. Pope Paul VI visits the United States. He appears for a Mass in Yankee Stadium and makes a speech at the United Nations. The University of California, Irvine opens its doors.
5th: Pakistan severs diplomatic relations with Malaysia because of their disagreement in the UN.
6th: Ian Brady, a 27-year-old stock clerk from Hyde in Cheshire, is arrested for allegedly hacking to death 17-year-old apprentice electrician Edward Evans at a house on the Hattersley housing estate.
7th: Seven Japanese fishing boats are sunk off Guam by super typhoon Carmen; 209 are killed.
8th: Indonesian mass killings of 1965–1966: The Indonesian army instigates the arrest and execution of communists which last until next March. The Seven Fundamental Principles of the Red Cross and Red Crescent are adopted at the XX International Conference in Vienna, Austria. The International Olympic Committee admits East Germany as a member. The Post Office Tower opens in London.
9th: Yale University presents the Vinland map. A brigade of South Korean soldiers arrive in South Vietnam.
10th: The first group of Cuban refugees travels to the U.S.
12th: Per Borten forms a government in Norway. The U.N. General Council recommends that the United Kingdom try everything to stop a rebellion in Rhodesia.
13th: Congo President Joseph Kasavubu fires Prime Minister Moise Tshombe and forms a provisional government, with Évariste Kimba in a leading position.
15th: Protesting the Vietnam War, the Catholic Worker Movement stages an anti-war protest in Manhattan. One draft card burner is arrested, the first under the new law.
16th: Police find a girl's body on Saddleworth Moor near Oldham in Lancashire. The body is quickly identified as that of 10-year-old Lesley Ann Downey, who disappeared on Boxing Day the previous year from a fairground in the Ancoats area of Manchester. Ian Brady, arrested for the murder of a 17-year-old man in nearby Hattersley, is charged with murdering Lesley, as is his 23-year-old girlfriend Myra Hindley. Anti-war protests draw 100,000 in 80 U.S. cities and around the world.
17th: The New York World's Fair at Flushing Meadows closes. Due to financial losses, some of the projected site park improvements fail to materialize.
18th: The Indonesian government outlaws the Communist Party of Indonesia.
20th: Ludwig Erhard is re-elected Chancellor of West Germany (he had first been elected in 1963).
21st: Comet Ikeya–Seki approaches perihelion, passing 450,000 kilometers from the sun. The Organization of African Unity meets in Accra, Ghana.
22nd: French authors André Figueras and Jacques Laurent are fined for their comments against Charles de Gaulle. African countries demand that the United Kingdom use force to prevent Rhodesia from declaring unilateral independence. Colonel Christophe Soglo stages a second coup in Dahomey.
24th: British Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Commonwealth Secretary Arthur Bottomley travel to Rhodesia for negotiations. British police find the decomposed body of a boy on Saddleworth Moor.
25th: The Soviet Union declares its support of African countries in case Rhodesia unilaterally declares independence.
26th: Anti-government demonstrations in the Dominican Republic. A crime that shocked Indianapolis, 16 year old Sylvia Likens found murdered after 3 months of torture.
27th: Brazilian president Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco removes power from parliament, legal courts and opposition parties. Süleyman Demirel of AP forms the new government of Turkey.
28th: French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville travels to Moscow. Pope Paul VI promulgates Nostra aetate, a "Declaration on the Relation of the (Roman Catholic) Church with Non-Christian Religions" by the Second Vatican Council which includes a statement that Jews are not collectively responsible for the death of Jesus Christ. In St. Louis, Missouri, the 630-foot (190 m) Gateway Arch is completed. Mehdi Ben Barka, a Moroccan politician, is kidnapped in Paris and never seen again.
29th: Moors murders: Ian Brady and Myra Hindley appear in court, charged with the murders of Edward Evans (17), Lesley Ann Downey (10), and John Kilbride (12) from Manchester. An 80-kiloton nuclear device is detonated at Amchitka Island, Alaska as part of the
Vela Uniform program, code-named
Project Long Shot.
30th: In the Vietnam War, near Da Nang, US Marines repel an intense attack by Viet Cong forces, killing 56 guerrillas. A sketch of Marine positions is found on the dead body of a 13-year-old Vietnamese boy who sold drinks to the Marines the day before. In Washington, D.C., a pro-Vietnam War march draws 25,000. English model Jean Shrimpton wears a controversially short white shift dress to the Victoria Derby at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, Australia. This was a pivotal moment of the introduction of the miniskirt to women's fashion.
Set Goals
To collect all the comics published in October 1965. I presently have 35 in my collection, of which seven have been graded by CGC.