WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO MAY 1965
Find out what all happened March to May 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)

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)

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

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 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)

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

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

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

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

PIA Flight 705, a Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 720-040B, crashes while descending to land at Cairo International Airport, killing 121 of the 127 passengers and crew. (20. May 1965)

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

The British Government announces the cancellation of the TSR-2 aircraft project. (6. April 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 1964–1965 New York World's Fair opens for its second and final season. (21. April 1965)

Battle of Dong-Yin, a naval conflict between ROC and PRC, takes place. (1. May 1965)

Astrodome opens. First indoor baseball game is played. (9. April 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 first issue of The Vigilant is published from Khartoum. (23. March 1965)