In the year 1963, Betty Friedan’s _The Feminine Mystique _ reawakens the Women’s Movement in the U.S. (Feb 19), the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary closes (Mar 21), the Beatles release their first album (Mar 22), Hitchcock’s The Birds is released in the U.S. (Mar 28), the first James Bond film is released (May 8), Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space (Jun 16), President John F. Kennedy gives his Ich bin ein Berliner speech in West Berlin, East Germany (Jun 26), Martin Luther King Jr. Continue reading