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January 1 – Trans-Canada Airlines is renamed Air Canada.
January 9 – The Hope Slide, the largest landslide ever recorded in Canada, kills four.
January 16 – The Canada-United States Automotive Agreement is signed
January 28 – The Queen issues a royal proclamation, effective February 15, making the Maple Leaf flag the National Flag of Canada.
February 15 – Canada adopts the maple leaf for the national flag.
March 2 – Lucien Rivard escapes from a Montreal area jail
March 7 – Canadian Roman Catholic churches celebrate mass in the vernacular for the first time due to the reforms of Vatican II
March 20 – Peter Lougheed is elected leader of the Alberta Progressive Conservative Party
April 2 – Lester Pearson gives a speech at Temple University in the United States that calls for a stop to the bombing of North Vietnam, infuriating President Lyndon Johnson
May 16 – Cross Country Checkup debuts on radio
June 7 – Navy, army, and air force commands are replaced by six functional commands
July 8 – A crash of a Canadian Pacific Airlines flight in British Columbia kills 52.
September 9 – The Fowler Report is released. It advocates creation of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)
September 13 - The new Toronto City Hall is opened.
November 8 – Federal election: Lester Pearson's Liberals win a second consecutive minority
November 9 – A failure at an Ontario power station causes the 1965 Blackout that stretches from Florida to Chicago and all of southern Ontario.
November 29 – Alouette 2 is launched.
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Eligibility age for pensions is lowered from 70 to 65
