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15 August is the official V-J Day for the United Kingdom, while the official US commemoration is 2 September. [2] The name, V-J Day, had been selected by the Allies after they named V-E Day for the victory in Europe. On 2 September 1945, formal surrender occurred aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
All day, all night, Marion, Sittin' by the seaside siftin' sand … The water from her eyes could sail a boat, The hair on her head could tie a goat … The last two lines are not in the Terry Gilkyson version. Allan Sherman sang about Cary Grant based on this song, which went as follows (from Shticks of one Kind and Half Dozen of Another):
The third Wanna Be a VJ contest was won by Ray Munns. Munns went on to defend his job five times on a live show entitled TRL Presents: VJ for a Day, where he and the contestants introduced the eleven through fifteen videos of TRL. Ray was the first ever half-Korean VJ (he is also a quarter-Irish and a quarter-English) and was the first contest ...
In 1980, he had a role in the music video for David Bowie’s “Fashion” a year before MTV launched. After a chance meeting with MTV’s CEO, he became a VJ, and stayed with the channel until 1987.
What's V-J Day? Victory over Japan Day is the anniversary of Japan's formal surrender to the Allies. In August of 1945 news of the surrender was announced and celebrations erupted all across the US.
At midnight on Aug. 1, 1981, Martha Quinn, Mark Goodman, Nina Blackwood, Alan Hunter, and J.J. Jackson stood inside the Loft restaurant in Fort Lee, N.J., to watch ...
It shows Minogue sitting in a neo-futuristic room and singing the lyrics to the song featured in the video. [42] To further promote the song, Minogue gave her first live performance of "Hold on to Now" during her headlining set at Radio 2 in the Park in September 2023; I editor Shaun Curran gave it four stars out of five. [43] [44] Minogue ...
Modern aircraft performed a flypast along with four World War II planes provided by Vintage Wings of Canada who made a "once-in-a-lifetime formation". [21] To mark the 70th Anniversary of VE Day, a flypast of 56 historical aircraft was performed over the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on 8 May 2015. This flypast was a rare sight for ...