Rock train from Mixtequilla quarry, Mexico, 15 January 1904.

Cyclists studying maps, 15 April 1938.

VJ celebrations at Picadilly Circus in London 15 August 1945.

WAAF taking dictation, 15 December 1942. 'W

WAAFs on parade, 15 December 1942. 'WAAFs

Projection on the plane of the ecliptic of the parabolic orbits of 72 comets, 1802.

BBC wartime reporter's recorder.

Italian soldiers boarding the Colombo at Naples, 12 August 1935.

'Johnny Zero', sheet music cover, 1942.

The opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 1830.

Gemini rendezvous, December 15 1965.

Sheet glas manufacture, 1765.