HISTORY TALKING: Reminiscing over the days that changed us forever

By Helen McAnulty
Updated November 19 2017 - 4:16pm, first published 2:00pm
DISASTER: Four people drowned and scores were rescued in the last stages of exhaustion as a Bondi beach sandbank gave way in heavy seas on February 7, 1938. Photo: FILE PHOTO
DISASTER: Four people drowned and scores were rescued in the last stages of exhaustion as a Bondi beach sandbank gave way in heavy seas on February 7, 1938. Photo: FILE PHOTO

On the morning of February 7, 1938, most of the free world shuddered as they read the headlines.

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