From the Dec. 2012 AARP Bulletin.
Some interesting dates from back fifty years ago. Has it really been that long?
JANUARY 28TH
Harvey Gantt, the first black admitted to Clemson University, begins classes there and went on to graduate with honors and then earned his master's degree in city planning from MIT. In 1983 he became the first black mayor of Charlotte, NC.
FEBRUARY 19TH
Betty Friedan publishes The Feminine Mystique. This examination of women's lives in the decades after World War II was the author's first book and is widely credited with igniting the women's liberation movement.
MARCH 22ND
The Beatles release their debut LP album, Please, Please Me, in the United Kingdom. The album which contains the classics "I Saw Her Standing There," "Love Me Do" and their cover of "Twist and Shout" was renamed Introducing...the Beatles for its U.S. release the next year.
The beginning of Beatlemania, although it didn't really hit the US until 1964. In 2012, Rolling Stone Magazine ranked Please, Please Me #39 on its list of the 500 greatest albums.
More to Come. --Cooter
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