5.27 Stating a definite time in the past: the simple past

If you want to say that an event occurred or that something was the case at a particular time in the past, you use the simple past.

• The Israeli Prime Minister flew into New York yesterday to start his visit to the US.
• Our regular window cleaner went off to Canada last year.
• On 1 February 1968 he introduced the Industrial Expansion Bill.
• I remember the time when Bill Tilden, about fifty years ago, threw his racquet at Wimbledon.