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  • Serbia
    Mar, 1965
    Slobodan Milošević

    Marriage

    Serbia
    Mar, 1965

    Milošević married his childhood friend, Mirjana Marković, with whom he had two children: Marko and Marija.




  • North Vietnam
    Tuesday Mar 2, 1965
    Vietnam War

    Operation Rolling Thunder

    North Vietnam
    Tuesday Mar 2, 1965

    Operation Rolling Thunder and Operation Arc Light expanded aerial bombardment and ground support operations.




  • Selma, Alabama, U.S.
    Sunday Mar 7, 1965
    Martin Luther King

    Selma voting rights movement

    Selma, Alabama, U.S.
    Sunday Mar 7, 1965

    Acting on James Bevel's call for a march from Selma to Montgomery, King, Bevel, and the SCLC, in partial collaboration with SNCC, attempted to organize the march to the state's capital. The first attempt to march on March 7, 1965, was aborted because of mob and police violence against the demonstrators. This day has become known as Bloody Sunday and was a major turning point in the effort to gain public support for the civil rights movement.




  • Vietnam
    Monday Mar 8, 1965
    John F. Kennedy

    Committed the first combat troops to Vietnam

    Vietnam
    Monday Mar 8, 1965

    On March 8, 1965, his successor, President Lyndon Johnson, committed the first combat troops to Vietnam and greatly escalated U.S. involvement, with forces reaching 184,000 that year and 536,000 in 1968.




  • South Vietnam
    Monday Mar 8, 1965
    Vietnam War

    3,500 U.S. Marines were unilaterally dispatched

    South Vietnam
    Monday Mar 8, 1965

    On 8 March 1965, 3,500 U.S. Marines were unilaterally dispatched to South Vietnam.




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