WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO JULY 1965
Find out what all happened January to July 1965

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Vietnam War: the first 4,000 101st Airborne Division paratroopers arrive in Vietnam, landing at Cam Ranh Bay. (29. July 1965)

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

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

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

Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean and explodes, killing everyone aboard. (8. February 1965)

Full independence is granted to the Maldives. (26. July 1965)

U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid. (30. July 1965)

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

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

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