An Mw? 7.4 earthquake in Chile sets off a series of tailings dam failures, burying the town of El Cobre and killing at least 500…
Tag: 1965
21 March 1965
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.
28 October 1965
Pope Paul VI promulgates Nostra aetate, by which the Church officially recognizes the legitimacy of non-Christian faiths.
9 August 1965
Singapore is expelled from Malaysia and becomes the only country to date to gain independence unwillingly.
25 March 1965
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.
23 March 1965
NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States’ first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young).
7 March 1965
Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers is brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama.