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ANN ARBOR, Mich., March 6 -- Michigan overcame a 5-point deficit in the final five minutes of play today to beat Minnesota, 88 -- 85, and clinch its first outright Big Ten basketball championship since 1947-48.
MIDDLEBURY, Vt., March 6 -- Middlebury College placed three skiers in the top 10 finishers of the grueling cross-country event today and fought off a bid by Dartmouth in the ski jump to capture the Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association championship.
Govt orders all US diplomatic personnel to rept, in advance, any plans for travel within Indonesia; queries Indonesian employes at US Embassy on embassy activities, urges at least 1 to give up his job
police and sit-down pickets at Lawrence Hosp clash after 300 pickets march around hosp; illus; 2 hurt; 26 held; charged with disorderly conduct and unlawful intrusion; other unions had joined drug union pickets; Bronxville police joined by police from county force and 2 other towns
THE American role in Vietnam, so precarious and confused today, has never been clear and calculated like that of the French, which ended with the fall of the northwest valley "fortress" of Dienbienphu in May, 1954, and the agreements signed at the Geneva Conference in July of that tortuous and fateful year.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 3, 1965, covering March 7, 1965.
The Beatles
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The Righteous Brothers
Robert Goulet
1965Jesper Parnevik, Swedish golfer[†]
Jesper Bo Parnevik is a Swedish professional golfer. He spent 38 weeks in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Ranking in 2000 and 2001.
1965Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers are brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama.[†]
The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile (87 km) highway from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery. The marches were organized by nonviolent activists to demonstrate the desire of African-American citizens to exercise their constitutional right to vote, in defiance of segregationist repression; they were part of a broader voting rights movement underway in Selma and throughout the American South. By highlighting racial injustice, they contributed to passage that year of the Voting Rights Act, a landmark federal achievement of the civil rights movement.
1965Aeroflot Flight 542 crashes in the Yermakovsky District, killing all 31 aboard.[†]
On 7 March 1965, an Aeroflot Lisunov Li-2 operating as Aeroflot Flight 542 crashed shortly after takeoff from Abakan. Approximately 40 minutes after departure, the aircraft banked left and dived into the mountains of the Krasnoyarsk Krai region of the USSR. All 31 passengers and crew died, making it the deadliest known accident involving the Li-2.
In 1965, the world population was approximately 3,334,533,703 people[†]