1965 in Luxembourg

Incumbents

Events

January – March

• 26 February - Fernand Georges is appointed to the Council of State.^[1]
• 2 March – Luxembourg City is agreed to remain one of the seats of the European Union as part of the negotiations over the Merger Treaty.^[2]
• 20 March – Representing Luxembourg, France Gall wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1965 with the song Poupée de cire, poupée de son.

April – June

• 12 June – A law is signed governing industrial relations, making arbitration compulsory.^[3]

July – September

• 23 August – Antoine Krier replaces Nicolas Biever in the government, after Biever's death the previous month.^[4]

October – December

• 30 December – Compulsory national service is reduced to six months.^[5]

Births

• 14 January – Désirée Nosbusch, singer
• 22 October – Georges Lentz, composer
• 4 December - Françoise Groben, cellist
• 10 December – Alain Hamer, football referee

Deaths

• 15 July – Nicolas Biever, politician and trade unionist
• 23 September – Emile Maar, Resistance leader
• 9 October – François Simon, politician

Footnotes

References

• (French) Thewes, Guy (2006) (PDF). Les gouvernements du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg depuis 1848 (2006 ed.). Luxembourg City: Service Information et Presse. ISBN 978-2-87999-156-6. http://www.gouvernement.lu/publications/gouvernement/gouvernements_depuis_1848/Les_gouv_2006.pdf. Retrieved 12 December 2009.