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March 21, 1965

On March 21, 1965, ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9, the last in a series of uncrewed lunar space probes. The year's #1 song was "Wooly Bully" by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs. Patricio Pouchulu, Suge Knight, Kostis Chatzidakis would arrive in the same year.

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Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9, the last in a series of uncrewed lunar space probes.

The Ranger program was a series of uncrewed space missions by the United States in the 1960s whose objective was to obtain the first close-up images of the surface of the Moon. The Ranger spacecraft were designed to take images of the lunar surface, transmitting those images to Earth until the spacecraft were destroyed upon impact. A series of mishaps, however, led to the failure of the first six flights.

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1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1965th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 965th year of the 2nd millennium, the 65th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1960s decade.

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  1. 1965 Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9, the last in a series of uncrewed lunar space probes.

    American uncrewed lunar space missions in the 1960s

    The Ranger program was a series of uncrewed space missions by the United States in the 1960s whose objective was to obtain the first close-up images of the surface of the Moon. The Ranger spacecraft were designed to take images of the lunar surface, transmitting those images to Earth until the spacecraft were destroyed upon impact. A series of mishaps, however, led to the failure of the first six flights.

  2. 1965 Martin Luther King Jr. leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.

    American minister and civil rights activist (1929–1968)

    Martin Luther King Jr. was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister who was a prominent leader of the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. He advanced civil rights for people of color in the United States through the use of nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws and other forms of legalized discrimination, which most commonly affected African Americans.

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Patricio Pouchulu 1965– Argentinian architect and educator
Suge Knight 1965– American record executive
Kostis Chatzidakis 1965– Greek politician, Ministry of Economy, Infrastructure, Shipping and Tourism
Léa Fazer 1965– Swiss film director, screenwriter and actress
Mark Mallia 1965– Maltese painter and sculptor (died 2024)
Fiona Kelleghan 1965– American academic, critic and librarian

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