Editing 1965 (section)

===March&ndash;April===
{{main|March 1965}}
{{main|April 1965}}
* [[March 2]] &ndash; [[Vietnam War]]: [[Operation Rolling Thunder]] &ndash; The [[United States Air Force]] [[2nd Air Division]], [[United States Navy]] and [[Republic of Vietnam Air Force|South Vietnamese air force]] begin a 3{{frac|1|2}}-year aerial bombardment campaign against [[North Vietnam]].
* [[March 7]]
** [[Mass in the Catholic Church]] worldwide is said in local languages (rather than Latin) for the first time.<ref>{{cite news|title=Biggest Change Greets Catholics Tomorrow|location=Tucson|newspaper=Daily Citizen|date=6 March 1965|page=10}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first=Piero|last=Marini|title=A Challenging Reform: Realizing the Vision of the Liturgical Renewal, 1963-1975|publisher=Liturgical Press|year=2007|page=97}}</ref>
** "[[Selma to Montgomery marches#"Bloody Sunday" events|Bloody Sunday]]": Some 200 Alabama State Troopers attack 525 civil rights demonstrators in [[Selma, Alabama]], as they attempt to [[Selma to Montgomery marches|march to the state capitol of Montgomery]].
* [[March 8]] &ndash; Vietnam War: Some 3,500 [[United States Marines]] arrive in [[Da Nang]], [[South Vietnam]], becoming the first American ground combat troops in [[Vietnam]].
* [[March 9]] &ndash; The "[[Selma to Montgomery marches#Second march: "Turnaround Tuesday"|Turnaround Tuesday]]" march from Selma to [[Montgomery, Alabama]], under the leadership of [[Martin Luther King Jr.]], stops at the site of "Bloody Sunday", to hold a prayer service and return to Selma, in obedience to a court [[Injunction|restraining order]]. On the same day, [[White supremacist]]s attack three white ministers, leaving [[Unitarian Universalist]] minister [[James J. Reeb]] in a coma.
* [[March 10]] &ndash; An engagement is announced between [[Princess Margriet of the Netherlands]] and [[Pieter van Vollenhoven]], who will become the first commoner and the first Dutchman to marry into the [[Dutch royal family]].
* [[March 18]] &ndash; [[Cosmonaut]] [[Alexei Leonov]] leaves his [[Voskhod 2]] spacecraft for 12 minutes, becoming the first person to walk in space.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-50017409|title=Alexei Leonov: First person to walk in space dies aged 85|website=BBC News|date=11 October 2019|access-date=11 October 2019}}</ref>
* [[March 20]]
** "[[Poupée de cire, poupée de son]]", sung by [[France Gall]] (music and lyrics by [[Serge Gainsbourg]]), wins the [[Eurovision Song Contest 1965]] (staged in Naples) for [[Luxembourg]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://eurovision.tv/event/Naples-1965/final|title=Official Eurovision Song Contest 1965 scoreboard|website=[[Eurovision Song Contest]]}}</ref>
** The [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1965]] begins.
* [[March 23]]
** [[Events of March 23, 1965]]: Large student demonstration in Morocco, joined by discontented masses, meets with violent police and military repression. 
** [[Gemini 3]]: [[NASA]] launches the United States' first 2-person crew ([[Gus Grissom]], [[John Young (astronaut)|John Young]]) into [[Geocentric orbit|Earth orbit]].
**The first issue of ''[[The Vigilant]]'' is published from [[Khartoum]].
* [[March 25]] &ndash; Martin Luther King Jr. and 25,000 civil rights activists successfully end the 4-day march from Selma, Alabama, to the capitol in Montgomery.
*[[March 28]] &ndash; At least 400 are killed or missing after an [[1965 Valparaíso earthquake and El Cobre dam failure|earthquake triggered a series of dam failures]] in La Ligua, Chile.<ref>{{cite web |title=M 7.4 - Valparaiso, Chile |url=https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/iscgem858940/impact |website=earthquake.usgs.gov |publisher=USGS |access-date=12 April 2021}}</ref>
* [[March 30]] &ndash; The second [[ODECA]] charter, signed by Central American states on December 12, 1962, becomes effective.
* [[April 3]] &ndash; The world's first space nuclear power reactor, ''[[SNAP-10A]]'', is launched by the United States from Vandenberg AFB, California. The reactor operates for 43 days and remains in [[low Earth orbit]].
* [[April 5]] &ndash; At the [[37th Academy Awards]], ''[[My Fair Lady (film)|My Fair Lady]]'' wins 8 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. [[Rex Harrison]] wins an Oscar for [[Academy Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]]. ''[[Mary Poppins (film)|Mary Poppins]]'' takes home 5 Oscars. [[Julie Andrews]] wins an [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] for her performance in the title role. [[Sherman Brothers]] receives 2 Oscars including [[Academy Award for Best Original Song|Best Song]], "[[Chim Chim Cher-ee]]".
* [[April 6]] &ndash; The [[Intelsat I]] ("Early Bird") [[communications satellite]] is launched. It becomes operational [[May 2]] and is placed in commercial service in [[June]].
* [[April 9]] &ndash; The West German parliament extends the [[statute of limitations]] on [[Nazism|Nazi]] [[war crime]]s.
* [[April 12]] – A [[1965 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak|historic and extremely destructive]] tornado outbreak struck the Midwest region of the United States, killing 266.
* [[April 18]] &ndash; Consecration of Saint [[Clement of Ohrid]] Macedonian Orthodox Cathedral in Toronto, Canada.
* [[April 23]] &ndash; The [[Pennine Way]] officially opens.
* [[April 24]]
** The [[1965 Yerevan demonstrations]] start in Yerevan, demanding recognition of the [[Armenian genocide]].
** The bodies of Portuguese opposition politician [[Humberto Delgado]] and his secretary Arajaryr Moreira de Campos are found in a forest near Villanueva del Fresno, Spain (they were killed [[February 12]]).
** In the [[Dominican Republic]], officers and civilians loyal to deposed President [[Juan Bosch (politician)|Juan Bosch]] mutiny against the right-wing junta running the country, setting up a [[provisional government]]. Forces loyal to the deposed military-imposed government stage a countercoup the next day, and civil war breaks out, although the new government retains its hold on power.
* [[April 26]] &ndash; [[Rede Globo]] is founded in [[Rio de Janeiro]], [[Brazil]].
* [[April 28]]
** [[American occupation of the Dominican Republic (1965–66)|U.S. troops occupy the Dominican Republic.]]
** [[Vietnam War]]: Prime Minister of Australia [[Robert Menzies]] announces that the country will substantially increase its number of troops in [[South Vietnam]], supposedly at the request of the [[Saigon]] government (it is later revealed that Menzies had asked the leadership in Saigon to send the request at the behest of the Americans).
* [[April 29]] &ndash; Australia announces that it is sending an [[infantry]] battalion to support the [[South Vietnam]] government.