29 May 1953. Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first to summit Mount Everest.

‘Evolution of a Russian’ english caricature from the 19th century

National Parks worker James Hudson uses a cloth-wrapped pole to clean Lincoln’s ear at the Lincoln Memorial in 1987 – Bettmann / Getty

LADY BE COOL (1974)

80 years ago today, on May 28, 1945, British fascist William Joyce (‘Lord Haw Haw’) was captured in Flensburg. He later became the last person to be executed for treason in the United Kingdom.