We Are Celebrating 96.....

Did You Know? -1965 was an interesting year

Nov 1st - 1st concert at Fillmore Auditorium, SF

Nov 1st - Trackless trolley plunged into Nile River drowning 74 (Cairo Egypt)

Nov 3rd - Sandy Koufax wins NL Cy Young Award unanimously

Nov 4th - Lee Breedlove sets female land speed record (308.56 MPH) in Utah

Nov 8th - "Days of Our Lives" premieres on TV

Nov 9th - Willie Mays named NL MVP

Nov 9th - Several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours in the Northeast Blackout of 1965.

Nov 11th - Heavyweight Cassius Clay KOs Floyd Patterson in Las Vegas

Nov 11th - Rhodesia proclaimed independence from Britain by PM Ian Smith

Nov 12th - Ferdinand Marcos elected president of Philippines

Nov 12th - Venera 2 launched by Soviet Union toward Venus

Nov 14th - KCST TV channel 39 in San Diego, CA (NBC) begins broadcastin

Nov 14th - US government sends 90,000 soldiers to Vietnam

Nov 15th - Craig Breedlove sets land speed record (600.601 mph-966.57 kph)

Nov 16th - Venera 3 launched, 1st to land on another planet (crashes into Venus)

Nov 16th - Walt Disney launches Epcot Center: Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow

Nov 17th - General Meeting of UN refuses admittance of China PR

Nov 19th - Kellogg's Pop Tarts pastries created

Nov 21st - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

Nov 22nd - "Man of La Mancha" opens at ANTA Wash Sq Theater NYC for 2329 perfs

Nov 23rd - 31st Heisman Trophy Award: Mike Garrett, Southern Cal (RB)

Nov 23rd - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Nov 26th - France launches 1st satellite, 92 lb (42 kg) A1-capsule (Asterix)

Nov 27th - 15-25,000 demonstrate against war in Vietnam in Wash DC

Nov 27th - 1st French satellite launched, France becomes 3rd nation in space