America - 1965AD

In 1965AD:

• The Black Muslim leader Malcolm X was assassinated in New York City.
• Race riots began in the Watts section of Los Angeles.
• Martin Luther King, Jr. led a civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
• The U.S. government established Medicare and Medicaid health programs.
• An electrical blackout in the northeastern U.S. affected 30 million people.
• The Houston Astrodome, the first covered stadium, was completed in Texas.
• Astronauts Virgil Grissom and John Young orbited the Earth in the first Gemini spacecraft.
• Astronaut Edward H. White became the first American to walk in space.
• The Mariner 4 spacecraft passed within 6,118 miles of the planet Mars.
• Gemini 6 and 7 spacecraft made the first rendezvous in space.
• American pop artist James Rosenquist painted F-111.
• Actress and singer Barbara Streisand starred in the Broadway musical Funny Girl.
• Neil Simon's play The Odd Couple opened on Broadway starring Walter Matthau.
• American writer Norman Mailer published An American Dream.
• Anti-Vietnam War demonstrations escalated in the U.S. resulting in draft-card burning and even self-immolation.

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