George Anthony Mendonsa (February 19, 1923 – February 17, 2019)
(Fox News) – The 18-year-old sailor shown kissing a woman in New York’s Time Square in an iconic photo that captured the ecstatic celebrations at the end of World War II died Sunday in Rhode Island.
According to family members, George Mendonsa was two days short of his 96th birthday when he died at an assisted living facility in Middletown.
Mendonsa’s daughter, Sharon Molleur, told the Providence Journal her father had fallen and had a seizure before he was pronounced dead. He lived at the facility with his wife of 70 years.
Mendonsa was shown kissing a woman he never met, Greta Zimmer Friedman, a dental assistant in a nurse’s uniform, on Aug. 14, 1945. Known as V-J Day, it was the day Japan surrendered to the United States. People spilled into the New York City streets to celebrate the news.
On this day in 1945, the Allies proclaimed V-J Day, victory over Japan, a day after Japan agreed to surrender unconditionally.
Woodstock began on this day in 1969 at Max Yasqur’s dairy farm in upstate New York.
Napoléon Bonaparte(August 15, 1769 – May 5, 1821)
Napoleon was the Emperor of France who rose to power in the aftermath of the French Revolution in 1799 and waged war with every major European power in a series of wars known as the Napoleonic Wars. After a series of military failures he was finally defeated at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 and spent the last 6 years of his life in exile on the island of St. Helena.
On this day in 1947, India became independent from Britain and was divided into the countries of India and Pakistan. India had been under British rule for about 200 years.
The Omagh bombing was a car bombing that took place on this day in 1998 in Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It was carried out by a group calling themselves the Real Irish Republican Army, a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) splinter group who opposed the IRA’s ceasefire and the Good Friday Agreement.
An aerial view of the devastation caused in Omagh after the bombing.
The Panama Canal was officially opened to commercial traffic on this day in 1914, as an American ship sailed from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. The first vessel to pass through the canal was the American cargo and passenger ship SS Ancon.
A newly expanded Panama Canal in 1016.
"The Wizard of Oz" premiered in Hollywood, CA. on this day in 1939. Judy Garland became famous for the movie’s song "Somewhere Over the Rainbow."
On this day in 1945, the Allies proclaimed V-J Day a day after Japan agreed to surrender unconditionally.
It began on this day in 1969.
India became independent from Britain and was divided into the countries of India and Pakistan. India had been under British about 200 years.
It was on this day in 1998.
On this day in 1914, the Panama Canal was officially opened to commercial traffic as an American ship sailed from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. The first vessel to pass through the canal was the American cargo and passenger ship SS Ancon.
"The Wizard of Oz" premiered in Hollywood, CA. on this day in 1939 and Judy Garland became famous for the movie’s song “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.”
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