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Events in the year 1965 in the Republic of India.
Incumbents
- President of India – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
- Prime Minister of India – Lal Bahadur Shastri
- Vice President of India – Zakir Husain
- Chief Justice of India – P. B. Gajendragadkar
Governors
- Andhra Pradesh – Pattom A. Thanu Pillai
- Assam – Vishnu Sahay
- Bihar – M. A. S. Ayyangar
- Gujarat – Mehdi Nawaz Jung (until 1 August), Nityanand Kanungo (starting 1 August)
- Jammu and Kashmir – Mahraja Karan Singh (starting 30 March)
- Karnataka – S. M. Shrinagesh (until 2 April), V. V. Giri (starting 2 April)
- Kerala – V. V. Giri (until 2 April), Ajith Prasad Jain (starting 2 April)
- Madhya Pradesh – Hari Vinayak Pataskar (until 10 February), K. Chengalaraya Reddy (starting 10 February)
- Maharashtra – P V Cherian
- Nagaland – Vishnu Sahay
- Odisha – Ajudhia Nath Khosla
- Punjab – Hafiz Mohammad Ibrahim (until 1 September), Sardar Ujjal Singh (starting 1 September)
- Rajasthan – Sampurnanand
- Uttar Pradesh – Bishwanath Das
- West Bengal – Padmaja Naidu
Events
- National income - ₹283,600 million
- 14 January - Food Corporation of India was founded.
- 26 January – Anti-Hindi agitations break out in India because of which Hindi does not get "National Language" status and remains one of the 2 Official Languages of India.
- 24 February – English is adopted as an associate language in dealings between the Central government and the non Hindi speaking states.
- 20 March – First fighting in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 between West Pakistan and India only.
- 29 May – 1965 Dhanbad coal mine disaster – A mining accident in Dhanbad, India kills 274.
- July 14 - Sheikh Abdullah kept at custody in Kodaikanal for two years from July 1965 - June 1967. [1]
- 5 August – War begins between India and Pakistan.
- 2 September – Kashmir is declared an "Integral Part of India" and is not a "disputed territory", later responded by the Pakistani troops entering the Indian sector of Kashmir.
- 6 September – Indian troops attempt to invade Lahore.
- 6–22 September – A full-scale Indo-Pakistani war is fought over Kashmir, which ends after a UN Security Council calls for a ceasefire on 20 September.
- 8 September – India opens two additional fronts against Pakistan.
- 9 September – U.N. Secretary General U Thant negotiates with Pakistan President Ayub Khan.
- 16 September – China protests against Indian provocations in its border region.
- 18 September – Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin invites the leaders of India and Pakistan to meet in the Soviet Union to negotiate.
- 22 September – Radio Peking announces that Indian troops have dismantled their equipment on the Chinese side of the border.
- 24 September – Fighting resumes between Indian and Pakistani troops.
- October - Nanda Devi Plutonium Mission by Central Intelligence Agency. [2]
- 1 December – The Border Security Force is formed as a special force to guard the borders.
- Femina Miss India held for the first time
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Births
Aamir Khan - 26 March – Prakash Raj, actor and film director.
- 23 April – Jamling Tenzing Norgay, mountain climber.
- 25 April – Brahmaji, actor.
- 3 June – Radha, actress.
- 19 June – Ashish Vidyarthi, actor.
- 2 July – Krishna Bhagavaan, actor.
- 15 August – Raghavendra Rajkumar, actor and producer.
- 19 August – Hemant Birje, actor
- 2 September – Partho Sen-Gupta, independent film director and script writer.
- 27 September – Sudha Chandran, dancer, actress.
- 11 October – Ronit Roy, film and television actor [3]
- 1 November – Padmini Kolhapure, actress.
Shahrukh Khan - 30 November – Tashi Tenzing, mountain climber.
- 10 December – Jayaram, actor.
- 25 December – Swami Ramdev, Yogguru.
- 27 December – Salman Khan, actor, film producer and television host.
01 June- Dr. Jayarama Reddy, Professor at St. Joseph's University, Bengaluru, Author, Scientist and You Tuber.
Full date unknown
- S. Joseph, poet.
- Amita Kanekar, novelist.
Deaths
- 21 January – Geeta Bali, actress (b. 1930).
- 3 March – Amirbai Karnataki, actress and singer (b. c1906).
Full date unknown
- Motilal, actor (b. 1910).
- A.B. Purani, disciple and biographer of Sri Aurobindo (b. 1894).
See also
References
- ^ Ramakrishnan, T. (31 March 2022). "When the 'Lion of Kashmir' landed in Kodaikanal". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
- ^ "Did nuclear spy devices trigger Himalayan floods?". BBC News. 20 February 2021. Retrieved 16 September 2023.
- ^ "Birthday Special: A look back at Ronit Roy's journey, that's worth penning down in golden words". The Indian Express. 11 October 2017. Archived from the original on 24 July 2019. Retrieved 12 March 2020.