The Executive Yuan (cabinet) appoints Rear Admiral Liu Hoh-tu as ambassador to Sierra Leone.
The Government Information Office announces Mandarin films, actors, actresses, and producers to receive 1965 Kinma (Golden Horse) awards.
Liu Chieh, ambassador to the United Nations, returns for home consultations.
17. M. H. Yuan, president of the Taiwan Sugar Corporation, leaves for Geneva to attend the International Sugar Conference.
Korean Agricultural Minister Kyun Hee Cha arrives for a four-day visit.
Grayson Kirk, president of Columbia University, arrives for a week's visit.
18. The first windmill power plant in the Far East begins operations in Penghu (the Pcscadores).
A five-member mission led by Finance Minister Chen Ching-yu leaves for the United States to attend the annual conventions of the International Monetary Fund, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and the International Development Association.
19. Defense Minister Chiang Ching-kuo leaves for the United States for a 10-day visit.
Fourteen Chinese military reporters leave for the Philippines to visit U.S. military installations.
21. The 36th session of the Legislative Yuan (parliament) is convened in Taipei.
23. The Executive Yuan appoints Lieutenant General Chang Kuo-ying as vice minister of national defense.
A four-member Chinese mission leaves for Bangkok to attend the conference of the U.N. Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East.
The Executive Yuan approves the elevation of the Chinese legation in Haiti to the status of embassy.
Wang Kung-chi, ambassador to the Malagasy Republic, returns for home consultations.
24. Glenn T. Seaborg, chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, arrives for a two-day visit.
U.S. Representatives Chet Holifield, Craig Hosmer, and John B. Anderson arrive for a three-day visit.
26. The fifth Asian Soft Tennis Tournament is opened in Taipei.
Chow Hong-tao, Taiwan provincial finance commissioner, leaves for the United States for a month's visit.
28. The nation observes Confucius' birthday.
A 10-member police mission leaves for West Germany for a six-week study tour.
30. The Taiwan Provincial Government announces Taiwan's population at the end of August totaled 12,482,816, an increase of 28,514 over the previous month.
October 2. Kao Hsin, chairman of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Commission, announces overseas Chinese investment in Taiwan between April, 1951, and September, 1965, totaled US$120,069,179.
3. Archduke Otto von Hapsburg, former crown prince of Austria-Hungary, arrives for a 10-day visit.
4. The ninth Executive Council meeting of the Eastern Regional Organization for Public Administration and the Seminar of Administration of Land Reform for Rural Development are opened in Taipei.
A six-member Chinese team leaves for Rio de Janeiro to attend the fourth world judo championships.
5. U.S. Representatives L. Mendel Rivers, Porter Hardy, and Speedy O. Long, and General Mark Clark, former commander of the U.N. Forces in Korea, arrive for a three-day visit.
U.S. Senator Daniel B. Brewster arrives for a two-day visit.
6. Bautista Ochoteco, new Uruguayan ambassador to China, arrives.
A seven-member Brazilian government and representative mission arrives for a three-day visit.
7. A Chinese farm technical mission leaves for Brazil for two years of service.
Harry Hynd and John Burns Hynd, members of the British Parliament, arrive for a week's visit.
Hsieh Ying-chou, president of the Supreme Court, returns after attending the World Jurisprudence Conference in Washington and the Asian' Judicial Conference in Tokyo.
8. The Asian Christians Anti-Communist Conference is opened in Taipei.
9. Tingfu F. Tsiang, former ambassador to the United Nations and the United States, dies of cancer in New York.
General Albert C. Wedemeyer, chief of staff of the Allied Forces Command in the China Theater during World War II, arrives for an eight-day visit.
10. The nation observes the 54th anniversary of the founding of the Republic.
13. Abhai Chandavimol, vice education minister of Thailand, arrives for a three-day visit.
15. The third Sino-Vietnamese Economic Cooperation Conference is opened in Taipei.