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Today in History: US FDA approved “The Pill” and changed the world (1960)
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June 23, 2016
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5:04Now PlayingJohn Robson reports, on June 23 1960, the world changed when the US FDA approved “the” pill. The birth control pill played a far more important role in the upheaval of the 1960s, and the ongoing turmoil in society, in gender relations and even feminist theory than any act by government. Politics is downstream from culture, a point to be borne in mind at all times and rarely as dramatically illustrated as by an event on June 23, 1960 that was nowhere near the front pages or TV news. MORE
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