WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO JUNE 1965
Find out what all happened February to June 1965

Nguyen Cao Ky becomes Prime Minister of South Vietnam at the head of a military junta; General Nguyen Van Thieu becomes the figurehead chief of state. (14. June 1965)

March Intifada: A Leftist uprising erupts in Bahrain against British colonial presence. (5. March 1965)

The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom. (18. February 1965)

The Supreme Court of the United States handed down its decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples. (7. June 1965)

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

United States occupation of the Dominican Republic: American troops land in the Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship" and to evacuate U.S. Army troops. (28. April 1965)

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

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)

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

Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9, the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes. (21. March 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)

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

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

The launch of Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew. Ed White, a crew member, performs the first American spacewalk. (3. June 1965)

The civilian Prime Minister of South Vietnam, Phan Huy Quat, resigns after being unable to work with a junta led by Nguyen Cao Ky. (9. June 1965)

The US and South Vietnamese Air Force begin Operation Rolling Thunder, a sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam. (2. March 1965)

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

The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes on the Moon. (12. May 1965)