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The Feminine Mystique, a book that was considered "unpublishable" because "no one cares about feminism". (Abebooks) On this day in 1963, The Feminine Mystique was published in the United States. Written by activist Betty Friedan, the book criticised the concept of the "happy housewife" and the idea that women find ultimate fulfillment in childbirth, cooking,…
M113s like the ones pictured above were lightly armoured but struggled to manoeuvre in the dense, difficult terrain of Vietnam. (Wikimedia Commons) On this day in 1963, the Battle of Ấp Bắc took place in Vietnam's Định Tường province. ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam) troops from South Vietnam had detected a large force…
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