Premier Tom Playford Loses Power After 27 Years in South Australia, March 6, 1965

Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers are brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama. Date: March 7, 1965 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 7 📅 Events on this day in 1965 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1965Get Smart Premieres on NBC…

Mel Brooks and Buck Henry's spy-comedy series Get Smart premieres on NBC Television. Date: September 18, 1965 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on September 18 📅 Events on this day in 1965 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1965Pope Paul VI Begins First Papal Visit to the Americas, October 4,…

The maple leaf is adopted as the flag of Canada, replacing the Canadian Red Ensign flag. Date: February 15, 1965 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 15 📅 Events on this day in 1965 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1965Gemini 7 Launch with Frank Borman and Jim Lovell,…

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. Date: March 21, 1965 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 21 📅 Events on this day in 1965 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 19651965…

Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned operations are to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam has to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000. Date: November 27, 1965 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 27 📅 Events on this day in 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 US Army troops. Date: April 28, 1965 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 28 📅 Events on this day in 1965 📅 On This Day (Today) More…