By now the whole bally world knows about Andy Murray winning Wimbledon; strange thought that the last time a Britisher won the thing the world was a very different place;- We hadn't landed on the moon, or even thought about it.
- World War 2 hadn't started (in fact there was a swastika flown at Wimbledon!)
- Computers hadn't been invented (but Alan Turing was publishing the basics)
- Superman was yet to make his debut in comic form, but the Green Hornet was on radio
- Every kid in America was obsessed by Joe DiMaggio
- Every criminal wanted to avoid the first Director of the FBI, J Edgar Hoover
- Hitler opened the Olympic Games in Berlin (but Jesse Owens taught him a lesson)
- The Hoover Dam came into operation (has the concrete cured yet?)
- Edward VIII abdicated, and the press just left him alone?!
As I say - a very different place indeed. Longer trousers for one thing.
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