Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
1969 – On the final day of the Isle of Wight Festival 1969, attended by approximately 150,000 people over three days, Bob Dylan appeared in his first gig in three years. 2019 – A sightseeing helicopter crashed in the mountains of Skoddevarre in Alta, Norway, killing all six people on board.
February 8: A Day for Scientific Breakthroughs. On February 8, nearly 200 years apart, two groundbreaking scientific papers were unveiled that dramatically reshaped our comprehension of the world.
9 August 1945 Charles Levy Nagasaki, Japan Unknown [s 2] [s 3] [s 5] V-J Day in Times Square: 14 August 1945 Alfred Eisenstaedt (pictured: same event taken by Victor Jorgensen) New York City, United States 35 mm The photograph depicts a U.S. Navy sailor embracing and kissing a total stranger on Victory over Japan Day. [48] [s 3] [s 4] [s 6]
V-J Day in Times Square, a photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt, was published in Life in 1945 with the caption, "In New York's Times Square a white-clad girl clutches her purse and skirt as an uninhibited sailor plants his lips squarely on hers" Alfred Eisenstaedt signing a copy of his famous V-J Day in Times Square photograph during the afternoon of August 23, 1995, while sitting in his Menemsha ...
Other great images include a shot of the action in Spain's annual "La Tomatina" festival, an impressionistic photo of a couple competing at the 2014 Tango World Championship in Buenos Aires and ...
I. Imbolc; Independence Day (Bahrain) Independence Day (Bolivia) Independence Day (Ecuador) Independence Day (India) Independence Day (Indonesia) Independence Day (Jamaica)
Homer is also the halibut fishing capital of the world (and August is peak season), so fishing aficionados can spend the day casting for halibut and salmon. Shop Now Taha Raja / 500px - Getty Images
These featured pictures, as scheduled below, appeared as the picture of the day (POTD) on the English Wikipedia's Main Page in August 2020. Individual sections for each day on this page can be linked to with the day number as the anchor name (e.g. [[Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2020#1]] for August 1).