3 The photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt is called V-J Day in Times Square. The woman in an iconic photo shown kissing an ecstatic sailor in Times Square celebrating the end of World War II has died. On August 14, 1945, known as V-J Day, the day Japan surrendered to the United States, people spilled into the New York City streets from restaurants, bars and movie theaters, celebrating the news. THE KISSThe photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt is called "V-J Day in Times Square," but is known to most simply as "The Kiss." "It wasn't that much of a kiss," Friedman said in an interview with the Veterans History Project in 2005.

Source: India Today September 11, 2016 06:33 UTC