WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO MAY 1965
Find out what all happened January to May 1965

Vietnam War: American warships begin the first bombardment of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam. (27. May 1965)

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

Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King, Jr. successfully complete their 4-day 50-mile march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama. (25. March 1965)

Bloody Sunday: a group of 600 civil rights marchers is brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama. (7. March 1965)

Pakistan's Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) successfully launches its seventh rocket in its Rehber series. (29. April 1965)

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

The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states, killing 256 people. (11. April 1965)

Malcolm X is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City by members of the Nation of Islam. (21. February 1965)

Teenage sniper Michael Andrew Clark kills three and wounds six others shooting from a hilltop along Highway 101 just south of Santa Maria, California. (25. April 1965)

Vietnam War: The first United States combat troops are sent to South Vietnam. (9. February 1965)

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

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

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

Astrodome opens. First indoor baseball game is played. (9. April 1965)

The People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan is founded in Kabul, Afghanistan. (1. January 1965)

Premier Tom Playford of South Australia loses power after 27 years in office. (6. March 1965)

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

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

President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to the Selma crisis, tells U.S. Congress "We shall overcome" while advocating the Voting Rights Act. (15. March 1965)