50 Important Events...

1. T.S. Eliot, an American born British Poet, dies in London.

2. Lyndon B. Johnson begins his first full term as president.

3. Sir Winston Churchill dies at the age of 90.

4. Premier Hassan Ali Mansur of Iran dies five days after being shot by an assassin.

February

5. Over 770 "negroes" are arrested in Selma, Ala. for protesting voting injustices.

6. Ranger 8 hits moon and and radios back 7,000 pictures.

March

7. Civil rights demonstrators stage a sit-down in the White House demanding federal intervention in Alabama.

8. Reverand James Reeb beaten to death in Alabama.

9. Soviet Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov floats in space for ten minutes.

10. The 1965 Freedom March begins in Alabama's capitol.

April

11. The Early Bird spacecraft is launched.

12. Over 250 are dead and thousands injured as deadly tornadoes rip actoss six Midwestern states.

May

13. Cambodia breaks diplomatic ties with the United States.

14. Soviet spacecraft strikes the moon.

15. Communist China reports its second atomic bomb explosion.

16. Cassius Clay retains the heavyweight boxing championship by knocking out Sonny Liston.

June

17. Gemini IV spacecraft starts four-day orbital flight.

18. The Supreme Court voids Connecticut's 1879 law against birth control.

19. The Soviet Union launches spacecraft toward the moon.

20. Japan and Korea sign a treaty restoring full diplomatic relations.

21. India and Pakistan agree to a cease-fire in the Rann of Cutch.

22. The first national law prohibiting discrimination in employment goes into effect.

23. Judge Thurgood Marshall is named U.S. Solicitor General.

24. Adlai Stevenson dies in London at 65.

25. First Mars photos are transmitted to earth by Mariner 4.

26. The President signs an act eliminating silver in new coins.

27. The President signs a bill requiring cigarettes to carry a health warning label in 1966.

28. President Johnson doubles the draft.

29. President Johnson signs medicare for the aged into law.

30. President Johnson signs Voting Rights Act of 1965.

31. Dr. Albert Schweitzer dies in Gabon at age 90.

32. Tom L. Coleman is acquitted in Lowndes County, Ala., in the killing of Episcopal seminarian Jonathan Daniels, a civil-rights worker.

33. Communist China is again barred from admission to the U.N.

34. Twenty-five day old newspaper strike ends in New York City.

35. The House Un-American Activities Committee opens its investigation  into the activities of the Ku Klux Klan in Washington.

36. Gemini VI astronauts Schirra and Stafford are launched for a rendezvous with Gemini VII's Borman and Lovell, launched December 4.

37. The British abolish capital punishment.

October

38. The first Cuban refugees arrive in Key West, Florida, under Fidel Castro's open exit policy.

39. The Supreme Court rules that individuals may refuse to register as members of the communist party.

40. The House Un-American Activities Committee opens its investigation into the activities of the Ku Klux Klan in Washington.

41. The British government abolishes captial punishment.

November

42. Republican, John V. Lindsay is elected Mayor of New York.

43. Cuba and US agree on a US airlift of refugees from Cuba.

44. The white minority government of Rhodesia uniterally declares its independence from Britain.

45. An all white jury in Alabama sentences a white segregationist to ten years imprisonment for slaying Willie Brewster, a Negro.

46. About 25,000 people march on Washington protesting the war in Vietnam.

December

47. An All-white jury in Alabama sentences a white segregationist to ten years imprisonment for slaying Willie Brewster, a Negro.

48. Three Ku Klux Klansmen are convicted in Alabama for consipiracy in connection with the civil rights murder of Viola Liuzzo.

49. Gemini VI astronauts return from their record 14-day space journey.

50. U.S. and South Vietnamese leaders declare a 30-hour truce.