Timeline Wednesday 22 November 1967

Events on Wednesday 22 November 1967 4

• 1967 – present Boris Becker Youngest Wimbledon Champion The German tennis star who won Wimbledon at age 17, sparking a tennis boom in Germany.
• 1967 – present Boris Becker Tennis player, b. 1967 Boris Franz Becker (b. 1967, Leimen, Germany) — six Grand Slam titles, three Wimbledons, world number one, Olympic gold medallist, and one of the most recognisable athletes of the 1980s and 1990s. Later: bankruptcy, prison, deportation, and an improbable return to grace. One of sport and culture's most dramatic life stories.
• 1967 Boris Becker born in Leimen, West Germany Boris Franz Becker is born in Leimen, a small town near Heidelberg, to architect Karl-Heinz Becker and his wife Elvira. His father builds a tennis club — the Blau-Weiss Tennisklub — in the town, giving Boris free access to courts from infancy.
• 1967 Otis Redding records Sittin' On the Dock of the Bay Written on a houseboat Written in Sausalito, finished with Steve Cropper in Memphis.