Fifty years ago, the world was a different place, but like today, it still had heroes.
Charlie Brown and the rest of the gang appeared on the cover of Time Magazine, the first U.S. spacewalk occurred during the Gemini 4 mission and Julie Andrews took home an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in "Mary Poppins."
The year 1965 was witness to Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama, and the Palm Sunday tornado outbreak – there was also a war in Vietnam.
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U.S. forces had been involved in some capacity for several years, when in March 1965, 3,500 Marines were deployed, marking the start to the U.