WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO APRIL 1965
Find out what all happened March to April 1965

The first model of the new Saab Viggen fighter aircraft is unveiled. (4. April 1965)

Civil war breaks out in the Dominican Republic when Colonel Francisco Caamaño, overthrows the triumvirate that had been in power since the coup d'état against Juan Bosch. (24. April 1965)

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9, the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes. (21. March 1965)