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What Happened In March 1965 In History

Historical Events for March, 1965

  • 2nd » The United States Air Force e.g US and Vietnam Air Force called South Vietnamese Air Force begin Operation Rolling Thunder, a sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam.
  • 5th » March Intifada: A Left-wing politics e.g Leftist uprising erupts in Bahrain against British colonial presence.
  • 6th » Premier Thomas Playford IV or Tom Playford of South Australia loses power after 27 years in office.
  • 7th » Selma to Montgomery marches known as Bloody Sunday: a group of 600 Civil Rights e.g civil rights marchers is brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama.
  • 15th » President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to the Selma, Alabama known as Selma crisis, tells Congress of the United States known as U.S. Congress "We shall overcome" while advocating the Voting Rights Act.
  • 18th » Astronaut named Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to Extra-vehicular activity called walk in space.
  • 19th » The wreck of the SS known as Georgiana, valued at over $50,000,000 and said to have been the most powerful Confederate States of America known as Confederate cruiser, is discovered by teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence, exact
  • 21st » Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9, the last in a series of unmanned Moon or lunar space probes.
  • 21st » Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma, Alabama or Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
  • 23rd » The first issue of 'The Vigilant' is published from Khartoum.
  • 24th » 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.
  • 25th » Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King, Jr. successfully complete Selma to Montgomery marches called their 4-day 50-mile march from Selma, Alabama known as Selma to the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.
  • 30th » Vietnam War: A car bomb explodes in front of the United States Embassy, Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others.

Famous Birthdays on March in 1965

  • 1st » Stewart Elliott, Canadian jockey
  • 1st » Mary Lou Lord, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Helium (band) named Helium)
  • 1st » Booker T (wrestler) called Booker T, American wrestler and sportscaster
  • 2nd » Ron Gant, American baseball player
  • 2nd » Lembit Öpik, Irish politician
  • 3rd » Dragan Stojković, Serbian footballer
  • 4th » WestBam, German DJ and producer
  • 4th » Paul W. S. Anderson, English director, producer, and screenwriter
  • 4th » Andrew Collins (broadcaster) or Andrew Collins, English journalist
  • 4th » Stacy Edwards, American actress
  • 4th » Khaled Hosseini, Afghan physician and author
  • 4th » Yury Lonchakov, Russian colonel, pilot, and astronaut
  • 4th » Viktor Shapovalov, Russian race car driver
  • 4th » Jonathan Shearer, Scottish reality contestant, winner of 'Castaway 2007'
  • 6th » Jim Knight, English politician
  • 7th » Jack Armstrong (baseball) named Jack Armstrong, American baseball player
  • 7th » Jean-Pierre Barda, French-Swedish singer and actor (Army of Lovers)
  • 7th » Steve Beuerlein, American football player
  • 7th » Cameron Daddo, Australian actor
  • 7th » Jesper Parnevik, Swedish golfer
  • 8th » Fátima Lopes, Portuguese fashion designer
  • 8th » Kenny Smith, American basketball player
  • 9th » Brian Bosworth, American football player
  • 9th » Benito Santiago, Puerto Rican baseball player
  • 10th » Valdemaras Martinkėnas, Lithuanian footballer and manager (d. 2004)
  • 10th » Rod Woodson, American football player
  • 11th » Nigel Adkins, English footballer and manager
  • 11th » Jesse Jackson, Jr., American politician
  • 11th » Wallace Langham, American actor
  • 11th » Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, English interior designer
  • 11th » Jenny Packham, English fashion designer
  • 11th » Andy Sturmer, American singer-songwriter, drummer, and producer (Beatnik Beatch and Jellyfish (band) called Jellyfish)
  • 11th » Allan Vainola, Estonian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Vennaskond)
  • 12th » Steve Finley, American baseball player
  • 12th » Shawn Gilbert, American baseball player
  • 12th » Steve Levy, American journalist
  • 12th » Coleen Nolan, English singer and television host (The Nolans)
  • 12th » Ivari Padar, Estonian politician
  • 12th » Liza Umarova, Kazakh singer and actress
  • 13th » Cees Geel, Dutch actor
  • 13th » Gigi Rice, American actress
  • 14th » Kevin Brown (right-handed pitcher) named Kevin Brown, American baseball player
  • 14th » Aamir Khan, Indian actor, director, and producer
  • 14th » Kiana Tom, American actress, television host, and author
  • 14th » Billy Sherwood, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Yes (band) or Yes, Conspiracy (band) or Conspiracy, Lodgic, and Yoso)
  • 14th » John Stephenson (cricketer, born 1965) e.g John Stephenson, English cricketer
  • 14th » Kevin Williamson (screenwriter) named Kevin Williamson, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
  • 15th » Sunetra Gupta, Indian epidemiologist, academic, and author
  • 15th » Svetlana Medvedeva, Russian wife of Dmitry Medvedev, First Lady of Russia
  • 16th » Steve Armstrong, American wrestler
  • 16th » Mark Carney, Canadian-English economist and banker
  • 16th » Richard Daniel Roman, English-Spanish songwriter and producer
  • 16th » Belén Rueda, Spanish actress
  • 18th » Birgit Clarius, German heptathlete
  • 18th » Yoriko Douguchi, Japanese actress
  • 19th » Kevin F. Harris, American composer
  • 19th » Fred Stoller, American comedian and actor
  • 20th » William Dalrymple (historian) known as William Dalrymple, Scottish historian and author
  • 20th » Adrian Oxaal, American-English guitarist (James (band) named James and Sharkboy)
  • 21st » Xavier Bertrand, French politician
  • 22nd » John Kordic, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1992)
  • 22nd » Emma Wray, English actress
  • 23rd » Sarah G. Buxton, American actress
  • 23rd » Richard Grieco, American model and actor
  • 23rd » Marti Pellow, Scottish singer-songwriter (Wet Wet Wet)
  • 23rd » Gary Whitehead, American poet and painter
  • 24th » Peter Jacobson, American actor
  • 24th » Kaido Kalm, Estonian ice sledge hockey player
  • 24th » Patrick Scales, German bass player and educator
  • 24th » Gurmit Singh, Singaporean actor
  • 24th » The Undertaker, American wrestler
  • 25th » Avery Johnson, American basketball player and coach
  • 25th » Stefka Kostadinova, Bulgarian high jumper
  • 25th » Sarah Jessica Parker, American actress, singer, and producer
  • 26th » Trey Azagthoth, American guitarist (Morbid Angel)
  • 27th » Sonia Falcone, Bolivian painter
  • 27th » Gregor Foitek, Swiss race car driver
  • 27th » Dina Talaat, Italian-Egyptian actress and dancer
  • 28th » Steve Bull, English footballer and manager
  • 29th » Jill Goodacre, American model and actress
  • 29th » Emilios T. Harlaftis, Greek astrophysicist (d. 2005)
  • 29th » Dominic Littlewood, English journalist
  • 29th » William Oefelein, American commander, pilot, and astronaut
  • 29th » Voula Patoulidou, Greek runner
  • 30th » Piers Morgan, English journalist
  • 31st » Tom Barrasso, American ice hockey player and coach
  • 31st » Jean-Christophe Lafaille, French mountaineer (d. 2006)
  • 31st » William McNamara, American actor
  • 31st » Steven T. Seagle, American author and screenwriter

Famous Deaths for March 1965

  • 1st » Joseph-Eugène Limoges, Canadian bishop (b. 1879)
  • 5th » Chen Cheng, Chinese general and politician (b. 1897)
  • 5th » Pepper Martin, American baseball player (b. 1904)
  • 6th » Margaret Dumont, American actress (b. 1889)
  • 7th » Louise Mountbatten, German-Swedish wife of Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (b. 1889)
  • 11th » James Reeb, American minister and activist (b. 1927)
  • 13th » Corrado Gini, Italian sociologist and statistician (b. 1884)
  • 13th » Vittorio Jano, Italian engineer (b. 1891)
  • 13th » Fan S. Noli, Albanian-American bishop and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Albania (b. 1882)
  • 14th » Marion Jones Farquhar, American tennis player (b. 1879)
  • 17th » Amos Alonzo Stagg, American football player and coach (b. 1862)
  • 18th » Farouk of Egypt (b. 1920)
  • 18th » Jack Quinlan, American sportscaster (b. 1927)
  • 20th » Daniel Frank, American long jumper (b. 1882)
  • 23rd » Mae Murray, American actress, dancer, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1889)
  • 26th » Olof Sandborg, Swedish actor (b. 1884)
  • 27th » Dirk Lotsy, Dutch footballer (b. 1882)
  • 28th » Clemence Dane, English author and playwright (b. 1888)
  • 28th » Jack Hoxie, American actor (b. 1885)
  • 28th » Charles William Train, English sergeant, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1890)
  • 29th » Zlatko Baloković, Croatian violinist (b. 1895)
  • 30th » Philip Showalter Hench, American physician, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine or Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)

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