"It’s Now or Never" spent five weeks at the number one spot.

Humorist Will Rogers, left, and famed aviator Wiley Post, at the Renton
airport before their fatal Alaska trip.    

The crash site

 
  
                           (August 15, 1879 – June 18, 1959)

Ethel Barrymore was a member of the famous Barrymore family of actors. She
was the sister of actors John Barrymore and Lionel Barrymore, and the great-
aunt of actress Drew Barrymore. Ethel Barrymore was a highly regarded stage
actress in New York City and a major Broadway performer. Many today consider
her to be the greatest actress of her generation.

  
                       (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821)

Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military and political leader during the latter
stages of the French Revolution. He was Emperor of France from 1804 to 1815.

The famous kiss in New York’s Times Square celebrating the surrender of Japan.

On Friday, 15 August 1945 Japan surrendered and the surrender documents were
finally signed during a formal ceremony aboard the deck of the American battleship
U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay (below) on the morning of 2 September 1945, officially ending the war.

Gen. MacArthur (at microphone) looks on as Japanese Gen. Yoshijiro Umezu signs the surrender document.

Gen. MacArthur signing the terms of surrender