Historical Events In 1965
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)
Mar 03 Temptations' "My Girl" reaches #1
Mar 07 Bruce Taylor takes 5-86 in debut innings for New Zealand after ton
Mar 18 Soviet astronaut Alexei Leonov is first man to walk in space
Mar 21 Martin Luther King Jr begins march from Selma to Montgomery AL
Mar 05 Ernie Terrel beats Eddie Machen in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
Mar 19 Rembrandt's "Titus" sells for then record ƒ7,770,000
Mar 22 US confirms its troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong
Mar 25 Martin Luther King Jr led 25,000 to state capitol in Montgomery AL
Mar 18 Egypt's exiled King Farouk dies in Rome.
Mar 23 Moroccan army shoots on demonstrators, about 100 killed
Mar 20 Venkataraghavan takes 8-72 vs New Zealand at Delhi
Mar 18 Rolling Stones fined £5 each for public urination
Mar 17 The X-22A VTOL research aircraft made its first flight at Buffalo, N.Y.
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