First US combat forces arrive in Vietnam, on the beaches of Da Nang.
The wreck of the SS Georgiana, valued at over $50,000,000, said to have been most powerful Confederate cruiser, discovered by then teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence exactly 102 years after its destruction..
40 tornadoes strike US midwest killing 272 & injuring 5,000.
US launches TIROS 9 weather satellite.
US confirms its troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong.
1st all news radio station (WINS 1010 AM in NYC) begins operating on April 19th.
US Ranger 8 launched, will transmit 7,137 lunar pictures.
US government sends 90,000 soldiers to Vietnam.
Martin Luther King Jr. leds 25,000 to state capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.
At a cost of $20,000, the outer Astrodome ceiling is painted because of sun's glare, this causes the grass to die.
Ranger 8 makes hard landing on the Moon, returns photos, other data.
US marines invade Dominican Republic, stay until October 1966.
One of the most popular musical films of all time, "The Sound of Music", starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, is released (Academy Awards Best Picture 1966).
Martin Luther King Jr. & 700 demonstrators arrested in Selma Ala.
The Beatles attend a Bob Dylan concert on May 9th.
President Lyndon B. Johnson signs a bill requiring cigarette makers to print health warnings on all cigarette packages about the effects of smoking.