WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO APRIL 1965
Find out what all happened January to April 1965

The British Government announces the cancellation of the TSR-2 aircraft project. (6. April 1965)

Vietnam War: A car bomb explodes in front of the United States Embassy, Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others. (30. March 1965)

Winston Churchill's funeral. (30. January 1965)

The current design of the Flag of Canada is chosen by an act of Parliament. (28. January 1965)

Hindi becomes the official language of India. (26. January 1965)

Ranger 8 crashes into the moon after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program astronauts. (20. February 1965)

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. (21. March 1965)

The Mirzapur Cadet College formally opens for academic activities in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). (9. January 1965)

The Hamilton River in Labrador, Canada is renamed the Churchill River in honour of Winston Churchill. (1. February 1965)

Project Ranger: The Ranger 8 probe launches on its mission to photograph the Mare Tranquillitatis region of the Moon in preparation for the manned Apollo missions. Mare Tranquillitatis or the "Sea of Tranquility" would become the site chosen for the Apollo 11 lunar landing. (17. February 1965)

The wreck of the SS Georgiana, valued at over $50,000,000 and said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is discovered by teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence, exactly 102 years after its destruction. (19. March 1965)

United States President Lyndon B. Johnson proclaims his "Great Society" during his State of the Union address. (4. January 1965)

A Rolling Stones concert in London, Ontario is shut down by police after 15 minutes due to rioting. (26. April 1965)

Launch of Early Bird, the first communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit. (6. April 1965)

The 1964–1965 New York World's Fair opens for its second and final season. (21. April 1965)

Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, and a communist spy of the North Vietnamese Viet Minh, along with Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Trần Thiện Khiêm attempted a coup against the military junta of Nguyễn Khánh. (19. February 1965)

NASA spacecraft Ranger 9, equipped to convert its signals into a form suitable for showing on domestic television, brings images of the Moon into ordinary homes before crash landing. (24. March 1965)

An Iberia Airlines Convair 440 crashes into the sea on approach to Tangier, killing 47 of 51 occupants. (31. March 1965)

The first Ford Mustang rolls off the show room floor, two days before it is set to go on sale nationwide. (15. April 1965)

NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States' first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young). (23. March 1965)