What happened with running shoes in 1965?
Running shoe materials start to transition from reliance on leather to synthetic materials.
What else happened in 1965?
On January 20, Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as President of the USA. He makes his “We Shall Overcome” speech on March 15.
The state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill takes place in London on January 30.
On March 8 about 3500 US Marines arrive in Vietnam to be the first American ground combat troops in Vietnam.
The first ever skateboarding championship is held on May 22.
Cigarette advertising is banned on British television in August.
The Nobel Prize in Medicine is awarded to François Jacob, André Michel Lwoff and Jacques Monod.
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