Is Football Coming Home? It's About Time.
1966. Oil on card by Celia Turner. Here is a painting to celebrate 1966, the year in which many of my peers were born. 52 years seems like a long time ago yet also not that long. In England, the year is best remembered for the winning of the World Cup against West Germany, we have that memory at least. (Well, I don't remember it as such and all it gets in the painting is a little goal at the bottom of the picture) Other notable events that took place in 1966 included: The last UK concert by The Beatles. John Lennon meets Yoko Ono. Anti- Vietnam war protests all over US and London, Tokyo, Stockholm, and Lyon. Cigarette packs started to carry health warnings. USSR launches Lunar 9 towards the moon. Dow Jones index reaches 995 points. It's the 23rd Golden Globes. Ba-ath party takes power in Syria. Muhammad Ali beats George Chuvalo in fifteen rounds. 215,000 US soldiers are in Vietnam. Harold Wilson (Labour) wins the General Election. Soviet Lunar 10 completes its ...