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Welcome to Dressed, The History of Fashion, a podcast that explores the who, what, win of why we wear. of Cass as you I'm sure recall a couple of weeks ago in our pride-themed

episodes we spoke about how it was the 50th anniversary of the stone wall riots

which sparked gay liberation movements around the world and today I'm very

happy to say we have the opportunity to touch on yet another epic event that also

took place 50 years ago this very week.

It seems that 1969 was quite the year, both in terms of protest and progress.

Social progress, of course, and scientific as well because on July 20th

1969 American astronauts Nill Armstrong and Edwin Buzz Aldrin became the

first humans to land on the moon and as most of us recall from elementary

school this was followed a few hours later by Neil Armstrong taking the first

human steps on the lunar surface.

To say that the moon landing was a highly anticipated event

might be the understatement of the century cast

because an estimated 600 million people from around the world

watched it on television and three major American television

networks so at that time that was ABC, CBS, and NBC, they spent

approximately 12 million dollars in the course of their coverage, which was a lot of

money back then.

Yeah, and citizens of the globe were simply captivated. The race to space had

heated up actually eight years prior when in 1961 the American president

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