| 1965-08-04
Cook Islands Constitution Day: The Cook Islands gain Self Governing status from New Zealand.
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| 1965-08-15
The Beatles play to nearly 60,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York City, in an event later seen as marking the birth of stadium rock.
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| 1965-01-26
Hindi becomes the official language of India.
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| 1965-12-06
Pakistan's Islamic Ideology Advisory Committee recommends that Islamic Studies be made a compulsory subject for Muslim students from primary to graduate level.
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| 1965-08-09
A fire at a Titan missile base near Searcy, Arkansas kills 53 construction workers.
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| 1965-07-08
Train robber Ronald Biggs escapes from Wandsworth Prison, London.
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| 1965-04-24
Civil war breaks out in the Dominican Republic when Colonel Francisco Caamaño, overthrows the triumvirate that had been in power since the coup d'état against Juan Bosch.
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| 1965-11-09
Several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours in the Northeast Blackout of 1965.
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| 1965-02-18
The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
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| 1965-12-22
In the United Kingdom, a 70mph speed limit is applied to all rural roads including motorways for the first time. Previously, there had been no speed limit.
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| 1965-02-01
The Hamilton River in Labrador, Canada is renamed the Churchill River in honour of Winston Churchill.
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| 1965-10-04
Becoming the first Pope to ever visit the United States of America and the Western hemisphere, Pope Paul VI arrives in New York.
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| 1965-11-16
Venera program: The Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe toward Venus, the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet.
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| 1965-03-07
Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers are forcefully broken up in Selma, Alabama.
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| 1965-06-03
Launch of Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew. Crew-member Ed White performs the first American spacewalk.
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| 1965-11-06
Cuba and the United States formally agree to begin an airlift for Cubans who want to go to the United States. By 1971, 250,000 Cubans made use of this program.
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| 1965-11-14
Vietnam War: The Battle of the Ia Drang begins – the first major engagement between regular American and North Vietnamese forces.
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| 1965-03-25
Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King, Jr. successfully complete their 4-day 50-mile march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.
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| 1965-02-20
Ranger 8 crashes into the moon after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program astronauts.
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| 1965-12-29
Filming began on Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey in England.
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| 1965-12-16
Vietnam War: General William Westmoreland sends U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara a request for 243,000 more men by the end of 1966.
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| 1965-10-23
Vietnam War: The 1st Cavalry Division (United States) (Airmobile), in conjunction with South Vietnamese forces, launches a new operation seeking to destroy North Vietnamese forces in Pleiku in the II Corps Tactical Zone (the Central Highlands).
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| 1965-11-02
Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old Quaker, sets himself on fire in front of the river entrance to the Pentagon to protest the use of napalm in the Vietnam war.
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| 1965-07-29
Vietnam War: the first 4,000 101st Airborne Division paratroopers arrive in Vietnam, landing at Cam Ranh Bay.
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| 1965-10-28
Nostra Aetate, the "Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions" of the Second Vatican Council, is promulgated by Pope Paul VI; it absolves the Jews of responsibility for the death of Jesus, reversing Innocent III's 760 year-old declaration.
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| 1965-05-12
The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes on the Moon.
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| 1965-07-26
Full independence is granted to the Maldives.
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| 1965-08-06
US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.
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| 1965-08-07
The infamous first party between Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters and motorcycle gang the Hells Angels takes place at Kesey's estate in La Honda, California introducing psychedelics to the gang world and forever linking the hippie movement to the Hell's Angels.
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| 1965-01-28
The current design of the Flag of Canada is chosen by an act of Parliament.
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| 1965-11-08
The Murder (Abolition of the Death Penalty) Act 1965 is given Royal Assent, formally abolishing the death penalty in the United Kingdom.
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| 1965-10-17
The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair closes after a two year run. More than 51 million people had attended the two-year event.
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| 1965-07-04
Homophile activists picket at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, the first in a series of Annual Reminders of the second-class status of LGBT people in the United States.
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| 1965-08-19
Japanese prime minister Eisaku Sato becomes the first post-World War II sitting prime minister to visit Okinawa.
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| 1965-12-15
Gemini program: Gemini 6A, crewed by Wally Schirra and Thomas Stafford, is launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida. Four orbits later, it achieves the first space rendezvous, with Gemini 7.
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| 1965-03-15
President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to the Selma crisis, tells U.S. Congress "We shall overcome" while advocating the Voting Rights Act.
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| 1965-06-10
Vietnam War: The Battle of Dong Xoai begins.
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| 1965-01-04
United States President Lyndon B. Johnson proclaims his "Great Society" during his State of the Union address.
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| 1965-02-17
Project Ranger: The Ranger 8 probe launches on its mission to photograph the Mare Tranquillitatis region of the Moon in preparation for the manned Apollo missions. Mare Tranquillitatis or the "Sea of Tranquility" would become the site chosen for the Apollo 11 lunar landing.
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| 1965-12-07
Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras simultaneously lift mutual excommunications that had been in place since 1054.
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| 1965-10-01
Apostasia of 1965, a political move in Greece designed to overthrow the Prime Minister, George Papandreou.
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| 1965-04-09
Astrodome opens. First indoor baseball game is played.
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| 1965-09-09
The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development is established.
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| 1965-08-11
Race riots (the Watts riots) begin in Watts area of Los Angeles, California.
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| 1965-03-19
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 then teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence, exactly 102 years after its destruction.
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| 1965-05-12
West Germany and Israel establish diplomatic relations.
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| 1965-03-05
March Intifada: A Leftist uprising erupts in Bahrain against British colonial presence.
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| 1965-09-06
War of 1965: India retaliates following Pakistan's failed Operation Grand Slam which resulted in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 that is ended following the signing of the Tashkent Declaration.
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| 1965-11-27
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.
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| 1965-03-31
An Iberia Airlines Convair 440 crashes into the sea on approach to Tangier, killing 47 of 51 occupants.
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| 1965-09-09
Hurricane Betsy makes its second landfall near New Orleans, Louisiana, leaving 76 dead and $1.42 billion ($10–12 billion in 2005 dollars) in damages, becoming the first hurricane to top $1 billion in unadjusted damages.
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| 1965-12-01
The Border Security Force is formed in India as a special force to guard the borders.
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| 1965-04-04
The first model of the new Saab Viggen fighter aircraft plane is unveiled.
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| 1965-03-18
Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.
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| 1965-11-09
Catholic Worker member Roger Allen LaPorte, protesting against the Vietnam War, sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building.
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| 1965-05-20
PIA Flight 705, a Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 720 – 040 B, crashes while descending to land at Cairo International Airport, killing 119 of the 125 passengers and crew.
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| 1965-11-13
The SS Yarmouth Castle burns and sinks 60 miles off Nassau with the loss of 90 lives.
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| 1965-02-09
Vietnam War: The first United States combat troops are sent to South Vietnam.
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| 1965-04-21
The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair opens for its second and final season.
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| 1965-10-30
Vietnam War: Just miles from Da Nang, United States Marines repel an intense attack by wave after wave of Viet Cong forces, killing 56 guerrillas. Among the dead, a sketch of Marine positions is found on the body of a 13-year-old Vietnamese boy who sold drinks to the Marines the day before.
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| 1965-08-09
Singapore seceded from Malaysia and gained independence.
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| 1965-04-26
A Rolling Stones concert in London, Ontario is shut down by police after 15 minutes due to rioting.
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| 1965-10-01
General Suharto crushes an attempted coup in Indonesia.
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| 1965-11-08
The 173rd Airborne is ambushed by over 1,200 Viet Cong in Operation Hump during the Vietnam War, while the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment fight one of the first set-piece engagements of the war between Australian forces and the Vietcong at the Battle of Gang Toi.
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| 1965-03-24
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.
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| 1965-05-16
The Campbell Soup Company introduces SpaghettiOs under its Franco-American brand.
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| 1965-11-29
Canadian Space Agency launches the satellite Alouette 2.
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| 1965-08-31
The Aero Spacelines Super Guppy aircraft makes its first flight.
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| 1965-02-21
Malcolm X is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City by members of the Nation of Islam.
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| 1965-10-15
Vietnam War: The National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam stages the first public burning of a draft card in the United States to result in arrest under a new law.
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| 1965-11-28
Vietnam War: In response to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's call for "more flags" in Vietnam, Philippines President Elect Ferdinand Marcos announces he will send troops to help fight in South Vietnam.
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| 1965-10-21
Comet Ikeya-Seki approaches perihelion, passing 450,000 kilometers from the sun.
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| 1965-07-20
Turkish prime minister Suat Hayri Urguplu returns from a visit to Moscow and announces the Soviet Union will provide aid to his country.
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| 1965-06-18
Vietnam War: The United States uses B-52 bombers to attack National Liberation Front guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam.
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| 1965-09-07
China announces that it will reinforce its troops on the Indian border.
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| 1965-08-18
Vietnam War: Operation Starlite begins – United States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in the first major American ground battle of the war.
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| 1965-03-21
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.
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| 1965-12-25
The Yemeni Nasserite Unionist People's Organisation is founded in Taiz
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| 1965-04-06
Launch of Early Bird, the first communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit.
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| 1965-09-30
General Suharto rises to power after an alleged coup by the Communist Party of Indonesia. In response, Suharto and his army massacre over a million Indonesians suspected of being communists.
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| 1965-11-24
Joseph Désiré Mobutu seizes power in the Congo and becomes President; he rules the country (which he renames Zaire in 1971) for over 30 years, until being overthrown by rebels in 1997.
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| 1965-07-16
The Mont Blanc Tunnel linking France and Italy opens.
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| 1965-04-28
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 U.S. Army troops.
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| 1965-06-07
The Supreme Court of the United States hands down its decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples.
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| 1965-07-18
Russian satellite Zond 3 launched.
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| 1965-07-28
Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces his order to increase the number of United States troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000.
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| 1965-07-30
US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.
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| 1965-03-21
Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9 which is the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes.
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| 1965-07-25
Bob Dylan goes electric as he plugs in at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music.
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| 1965-09-21
Gambia, Maldives and Singapore are admitted as members of the United Nations.
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| 1965-09-22
The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 (also known as the Second Kashmir War) between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, ends after the UN calls for a cease-fire.
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| 1965-11-11
In Rhodesia (modern-day Zimbabwe), the white-minority government of Ian Smith unilaterally declares independence.
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| 1965-12-09
The Kecksburg UFO incident: a fireball is seen from Michigan to Pennsylvania; witnesses report something crashing in the woods near Pittsburgh. In 2005 NASA admits that it examined an object.
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| 1965-09-07
Vietnam War: In a follow-up to August's Operation Starlight, United States Marines and South Vietnamese forces initiate Operation Piranha on the Batangan Peninsula.
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| 1965-05-27
Vietnam War: American warships begin the first bombardment of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam.
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| 1965-04-06
The British Government announces the cancellation of the TSR-2 aircraft project.
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| 1965-09-30
Lockheed L-100, the civilian version of the C-130 Hercules, was introduced.
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| 1965-04-11
The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states, killing 256 people.
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| 1965-03-06
Premier Tom Playford of South Australia loses power after 27 years in office.
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| 1965-03-23
NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States' first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young).
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| 1965-12-30
Ferdinand Marcos becomes President of the Philippines.
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| 1965-11-26
In the Hammaguir launch facility in the Sahara Desert, France launches a Diamant-A rocket with its first satellite, Asterix-1 on board, becoming the third country to enter outer space.
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| 1965-05-01
Battle of Dong-Yin, a naval conflict between ROC and PRC, takes place.
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| 1965-01-01
The People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan is founded in Kabul.
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| 1965-02-15
A new red-and-white maple leaf design is adopted as the flag of Canada, replacing the old Canadian Red Ensign banner.
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| 1965-04-29
Pakistan's Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) successfully launches its seventh rocket in its Rehber series.
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| 1965-11-08
The British Indian Ocean Territory is created, consisting of Chagos Archipelago, Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches islands.
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| 1965-07-14
The Mariner 4 flyby of Mars takes the first close-up photos of another planet.
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| 1965-03-30
Vietnam War: A car bomb explodes in front of the US Embassy, Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others.
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