WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO MAY 1965
Find out what all happened February to May 1965

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

Israeli spy Eli Cohen was hanged in Damascus, Syria. (18. May 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 Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom. (18. February 1965)

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

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

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

The first issue of The Vigilant is published from Khartoum. (23. March 1965)

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

Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, became the first person to walk in space. (18. March 1965)

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

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

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

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

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

A new red-and-white maple leaf design is adopted as the flag of Canada, replacing the old Canadian Red Ensign banner. (15. February 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)