Historical Events In 1965

Mar 10 Dutch Princess Margriet &Pieter van Vollenhoven, get engaged

Mar 06 Bruce Taylor hits 105 for New Zealand vs India in first Test Cricket innings

Mar 25 Actor Sarah Jessica Parker born this day.

Mar 01 Australia suspends champion swimmer Dawn Fraser for 10-years for misconduct

Mar 23 LCDR John W. Young, USN, Pilot of Gemini 3 completed 3 orbits in 4 hours., 53 minutes at an altitude of 224 km. Recovery was by helicopters from USS Intrepid (CVS-11).

Mar 02 "Sound Of Music" opens

Mar 28 Near the West Coast of Central Chile a 7.3 quake occurs about 400 persons were killed or missing, 350 were injured, and extensive property damage was reported

Mar 07 Christian-democrats win parliament in Chile

Mar 17 Beatles announce their film is named "8 Arms to Hold on to You" (Help)

Mar 19 Indonesia nationalizes all foreign oil companies

Mar 15 LBJ asks congress to ensure everybody's right to vote

Mar 11 Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer and Eleanor Parker starred in the film adaptation of the popular Broadway hit, "The Sound of Music".

Mar 21 US Ranger 9 launched; takes 5,814 pictures before lunar impact

Mar 06 The first nonstop helicopter crossing of North America, JR Willford

Mar 03 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

Mar 03 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Mar 03 Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer and Eleanor Parker starred in the film adaptation of the popular Broadway hit, "The Sound of Music".

Mar 01 Gas explosion kills 28 in apartment complex (La Salle, Quebec)

Mar 13 Jeff Beck replaces Eric Clapton of the Yardbirds

Mar 22 D Senanayake wins general elections in Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

Mar 14 Israeli cabinet approves diplomatic relations with West Germany

Mar 16 University of Waterloo starts bilingual course in Honours French and Political Science; for students preparing to enter federal Civil Service.

Mar 29 House of Commons approves Canada Pension Plan

Mar 24 US Ranger 9 strikes Moon, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of crater Alphonsus

Mar 18 USSR launches Voshkod 2; Alexei Leonov makes first spacewalk (20 minutes)

Mar 07 Alabama state troopers &600 black protestors clash in Selma

Mar 19 Chivu Stoica becomes President of the Council of Romanian People's Republic &Nicolae Ceausescu appointed first Secretary of Romanian communist party

Mar 31 US ordered the first combat troops to Vietnam

Mar 25 West German Bondsdag extends war crimes retribution

Mar 06 "How to Succeed in Business" closes at 46th St NYC after 1415 performances

Mar 04 David Attenbrough became the new controller of BBC2

Mar 11 Indonesia President Sukarno accepts qualifications of Suharto

Mar 13 Beatles' "Eight Days a Week", single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks

Mar 07 American marines land in South Vietnam

Mar 08 US combat forces arrive in South Vietnam (3,500 Marines)

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