March is the third month of the year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. It is one of seven months that are 31 days long. In the Northern Hemisphere, the meteorological beginning of spring occurs on the first day of March. The March equinox on the 20th or 21st marks the astronomical beginning of spring in the Northern Hemisphere and the beginning of autumn in the Southern Hemisphere, where September is the seasonal equivalent of the Northern Hemisphere for March.
March symbols: The birthstones of March are aquamarine and bloodstone. These stones symbolize courage. Its birth flower is the daffodil. The zodiac signs for the month of March are Pisces (until March 20) and Aries (March 21 onwards).
Historical Events for March, 1965
Day of Week 2nd » The United States Air Force e.g US and Vietnam Air Force called South Vietnamese Air Force begin Operation Rolling Thunder, a sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam.
Day of Week 5th » March Intifada: A Left-wing politics e.g Leftist uprising erupts in Bahrain against British colonial presence.
Day of Week 6th » Premier Thomas Playford IV or Tom Playford of South Australia loses power after 27 years in office.
Day of Week 7th » Selma to Montgomery marches known as Bloody Sunday: a group of 600 Civil Rights e.g civil rights marchers is brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama.
Day of Week 15th » President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to the Selma, Alabama known as Selma crisis, tells Congress of the United States known as U.S. Congress "We shall overcome" while advocating the Voting Rights Act.
Day of Week 18th » Astronaut named Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to Extra-vehicular activity called walk in space.
Day of Week 19th » The wreck of the SS known as Georgiana, valued at over $50,000,000 and said to have been the most powerful Confederate States of America known as Confederate cruiser, is discovered by teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence, exact
Day of Week 21st » Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9, the last in a series of unmanned Moon or lunar space probes.
21st » Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma, Alabama or Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
Day of Week 23rd » The first issue of 'The Vigilant' is published from Khartoum.
Day of Week 24th » NASA spacecraft Ranger 9, equipped to convert its signals into a form suitable for showing on domestic television, brings images of the Moon into ordinary homes before crash landing.
Day of Week 25th » Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King, Jr. successfully complete Selma to Montgomery marches called their 4-day 50-mile march from Selma, Alabama known as Selma to the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.
Day of Week 30th » Vietnam War: A car bomb explodes in front of the United States Embassy, Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others.