Tippi Hedren’s pale green dress from “The Birds,” recently part of the Hollywood Cosume exhibit. Photo by Richard Harbaugh.

March 28, 1963:  Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds opened in theaters.

As an aside, Ray Bradbury was asked to write the script by Hitch but turned it down because he was still “recovering” from having written the Moby Dick script for John Huston. Whenever Ray would watch the movie he’d yell at the TV, “You should have used the ending from the book!”