Representatives of the National Congress of American Indians testify before members of the US Senate in Washington, D.C., against the termination of the Colville tribe. Date: April 7, 1965 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 7 📅 Events on this day in 1965 📅 On This Day (Today)
Launch of Early Bird, the first commercial communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit. Date: April 6, 1965 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 6 📅 Events on this day in 1965 📅 On This Day (Today)
My Fair Lady wins Best Picture at the 37th Academy Awards. Date: April 5, 1965 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 5 📅 Events on this day in 1965 📅 On This Day (Today)
Vietnam War: A car bomb explodes in front of the United States Embassy, Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others. Date: March 30, 1965 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 30 📅 Events on this day in 1965 📅 On This Day (Today)
An Mw 7.4 earthquake in Chile sets off a series of tailings dam failures, burying the town of El Cobre and killing at least 500 people. Date: March 28, 1965 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 28 📅 Events on this day in 1965 📅 On This Day (Today)
Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King Jr. successfully complete their four-day 50-mile (80 km) march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama. Date: March 25, 1965 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 25 📅 Events on this day in 1965 📅 On This Day (Today)
NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States' first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young). Date: March 23, 1965 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 23 📅 Events on this day in 1965 📅 On This Day (Today)
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)
Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9, the last in a series of uncrewed lunar space probes. Date: March 21, 1965 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 21 📅 Events on this day in 1965 📅 On This Day (Today)
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. Date: March 19, 1965 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 19 📅 Events on…