March 1965

Sunday 07:

In Selma, Alabama, State troopers and local law enforcement forcefully break up a group of 600 civil rights marchers. The event was televised and was dubbed Bloody Sunday.

Monday 08:

Vietnam War: 3,500 United States Marines arrive in South Vietnam, becoming the first American combat troops in Vietnam.

Thursday 18:

Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.

Saturday 20:

1965 – In Naples, Italy, France Gall wins the tenth Eurovision Song Contest for Luxembourg singing "Poupée de cire, poupée de son" (Wax doll, talking doll).

Sunday 21:

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.

Monday 22:

Bob Dylan "goes electric," releasing his first album featuring electric instruments, Bringing It All Back Home.

Tuesday 23:

NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States' first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young).

Wednesday 24:

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.

Thursday 25:

Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King, Jr. complete successfully their 4-day 50-mile march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery.

Tuesday 30:

Vietnam War: A car bomb explodes in front of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others.