Today is the 49th anniversary of the Soweto Uprising in South Africa. The photo that changed SA’s history: Hector Pieterson, a 12 year old who was shot and killed by police on 16 June 1976.

Tatiana and Maria, two of Tsar Nicholas II’s daughters, photographed in 1906

‘The fall of American communism’. 2021 political cartoon by Boulderlob, a National Bolshevist imitator of Pebbleyeet.

Thirty years ago today, OJ Simpson told the jury that the gloves used to murder Nicole Brown ‘don’t fit’ – June 15, 1995

Rachmaninoff plays piano for his granddaughter Sophie in 1927, New York