March 1965 calendar

Events

• 01 Mar 1965 WPSX TV channel 3 in Clearfield, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 02 Mar 1965 Sound Of Music opens
• 03 Mar 1965 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
• 04 Mar 1965 David Attenbrough became the new controller of BBC2
• 05 Mar 1965 Ernie Terrel beats Eddie Machen in 15 rounds for heavyweight boxing title.
• 06 Mar 1965 How to Succeed in Business closes at 46th St. NYC after 1415 performances
• 07 Mar 1965 Alabama state troopers and 600 black protestors clash in Selma
• 08 Mar 1965 First US combat forces arrive in South Vietnam (3,500 Marines).
• 09 Mar 1965 The US Treasury Department begins sales of Special Mint sets, at US$4 per set. Collectors can buy in lots of 1, 2, 5, or 10.
• 10 Mar 1965 Dutch Princess Margriet and Pieter van Vollenhoven, get engaged
• 11 Mar 1965 Indonesia President Sukarno accepts qualifications of Suharto.
• 13 Mar 1965 Jeff Beck replaces Eric Clapton of the Yardbirds
• 14 Mar 1965 Israeli cabinet approves diplomatic relations with West Germany.
• 15 Mar 1965 WMFE TV channel 24 in Orlando, Florida (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 16 Mar 1965 Police clash with 600 SNCC marchers in Montgomery, Alabama.
• 17 Mar 1965 Beatles announce their film is named 8 Arms to Hold on to You (Help)
• 18 Mar 1965 Do I Hear a Waltz? opens at 46th St. Theater NYC for 220 performances
• 19 Mar 1965 Stoica becomes President and Ceausescu party leader of Romania
• 20 Mar 1965 Venkataraghavan takes 8-72 versus New Zealand at Delhi, India.
• 21 Mar 1965 US Ranger 9 launched, last American unmanned lunar space probe; will take 5,814 pictures before lunar impact.
• 22 Mar 1965 D Senanayake wins general elections in Ceylon (Sri Lanka).
• 23 Mar 1965 Gemini 3 launched, first US two-man space flight (Grissom and Young).
• 24 Mar 1965 US Ranger 9 strikes Moon, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of crater Alphonsus.
• 25 Mar 1965 West German Bondsdag extends war crimes retribution.
• 31 Mar 1965 US orders the first combat troops to Vietnam.

Famous Birthday

• Sarah Jessica Parker
• Aamir Khan

  Indian film actor, director, screenwriter, producer and television presenter.

• The Undertaker

  American professional wrestler.

• Cristiana Reali
• Xavier Bertrand

  French politician who was Minister of Health from 2005 to 2007 in Dominique de Villepin's government under President Jacques Chirac, then...

• Piers Morgan

  British journalist and television personality.

• Marti Pellow

  Scottish musician, lead singer and teen idol with the pop group "Wet Wet Wet.

• Richard Grieco

  American model actor and producer.

• Jill Goodacre

  American model and actress.

• Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen

  British television presenter.

• Dragan Stojkovic

  Serbian footballer.

• Juliet Landau
• Eric Ripert
• Gaétan Girouard
• Anaïs (Régine Hantelle)
• Belén Rueda

  Spanish actress and singer.

• David Cubitt
• Jack Armstrong

  American baseball player.

• Forbes Masson

  Scottish actor and comedian, star of a Scottish TV sitcom, "The High Life," in the role of Steve McCracken.

• Stacy Edwards

  American actress.

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Famous Deaths

• James Reeb

  American Unitarian Universalist minister and a pastor and civil rights activist in Washington, D.C.

• Quentin Reynolds

  Newscaster (Its News to Me) / Author (FBI), dies at 62.

• Carlo Gatti

  Composer, dies at 88.

• Margaret Dumont [Daisy Baker]

  Actress (Animal Crackers), dies at 75.

• Ruvim Pergament

  Composer, dies at 58.

• Kazys Boruta

  Writer.

• George Calinescu

  Romanian Author (Lauda Lucrorilor), dies at 65.

• Farouk I

  Last King of Egypt (1936-52), dies at 45.

• VAA Mary

  English princess, dies at 67.

• Esther Howard

  Actress (Detour), dies of heart attack at 72.

• Chen Cheng

  Chinese politician (Born 1897).

• Fan S Noli

  Albanian bishop, poet, and politician (Born 1882).

• King Farouk

  I of Egypt (Born 1920).

• Philip Showalter Hench

  American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Born 1896).

• Giorgio Federico Ghedini

  Composer, dies at 72.

• Almos Alonzo Stagg

  football coach (University of Chicago), dies in California at age 102.

• Viola Gregg Liuzzo

  US civil rights activist, is murdered.

• Charles William Train

  English recipient of the Victoria Cross (Born 1890).

• Corrado Gini

  Italian statistician (Born 1884).

• Pepper Martin

  American baseball player (Born 1904).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. The Temptations - My Girl
2. The Beatles - Eight Days A Week
3. The Supremes - Stop! In The Name Of Love
4. Gary Lewis and the Playboys - This Diamond Ring
5. Herman's Hermits - Can't You Hear My Heartbeat

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Tom Jones - It's Not Unusual
2. The Rolling Stones - The Last Time
3. The Seekers - I'll Never Find Another You
4. Herman's Hermits - Silhouettes
5. Marianne Faithfull - Come And Stay With Me