MPX5128190: A RAF search and rescue Sea King helicopter from RAF Boulmer airlifts an injured man to the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle. The man had fallen and suffered back and leg injuries while working on a North Sea oil pumping station (Booster Station) 70 miles along the oil pipeline from Teesside towards the Eko Fisk field, 10/12/1979 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5129128: The millionth car produced at the Halewood plant of the Ford Motor Company marked two milestones. An important change in management, as the Operations Manager Stan Cross leaves for promotion & Charles Skinner takes over, and the 1,000,000th car produced was presented to charity 30th May 1969 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5129176: The Beatles in the studio (Studio Two, EMI Studios, London). That morning, during a photo session, Ringo Starr had become seriously ill and had to be hospitalized. Since The Beatles were scheduled to leave on a world tour the very next morning, it was too late to cancel the tour. Brian Epstein and George Martin arranged for a temporary drummer to take Ringo's place for the first part of the tour, and the drummer selected was Jimmy Nicol, someone who they knew to be talented but who was unknown enough not to be mistaken as a permanent replacement for Ringo. On the spur of a last-minute phone call from George Martin, Nicol rushed over to EMI Studios, where he and The Beatles ran through six songs from their tour repertoire in a quick rehearsal ("I Want to Hold Your Hand", "She Loves You", "I Saw Her Standing There", "This Boy", "Can't Buy Me Love", and "Long Tall Sally"), Just 27 hours later, drummer Jimmy Nicol was performing live with The Beatles in Copenhagen, Denmark, June 3, 1964 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images