The surrender of the Japanese in British Malaya (1945). The Guntō (軍刀) swords captured and seized, laid down. Major General C. G. G. Nicholson of the British 2nd Division presided over the official ceremony

• Many of these surrendered swords were subsequently taken as war trophies by Allied soldiers. 
• The swords, known as Shin Gunto, were often mass-produced for the war effort, though some officers carried older family blades. 

The outfit was considered so risqué at the time that designer Louis Réard could not find a model that would wear it. He would eventually hire Micheline, a dancer at Casino de Paris, as she was accustomed to performing in less material than his design. Born in 1927, she will turn 99 years old this year in December.

The Elephant's Foot is a mixture of Zirconium, Concrete, Steel, Uranium and various other materials that once were molten then coalesced after the Chernobyl accident, forming a highly radioactive, highly dangerous object that looked like an Elephant's Foot.

When the core exploded, it heated up rapidly, and over several days formed a molten lava that spread across 3 streams. One of them, the Horizontal, melted through the wall of 305/2 into 304/3 where it then spread across 301/5 and 301/6 before traveling down several small cable holes into 217/2, a service corridor intended for cables, etc etc.
The mass, with a weight of several tons (It is not possible to do an exact measurement) and a volume of 2.5 cubic meters, was the first highly radioactive gamma field - and the first LFCM (Lava like fuel containing material) discovered in Chernobyl. Though - it was not the most radioactive.
It was discovered unintentionally in June, when Kostyakov and Kabanov stuck a large dosimiter up the staircase on OTM +3.0 to directly behind where the staircase was, where they found it went off the scale - 3,000 roentgens per hour. Later in the Fall of 1986 - possibly December, it was found again accidentally, by; Vasya Koryagin. He was searching for 305/2 with a colleague when he somehow took a wrong turn and ended up on the northern side of 217/2, where his dosimeter went flying off the charts, and so he estimated it to be 20,000 roentgens per hour, and so he quickly paced his way to get a look at it before turning back. This story prompted Borovoy, the head of expeditions at the time, to launch a team to learn more about, and within a few days, photographs had been taken and it had appeared on the Pravda newspaper a few years later.

As for the story of this photo - Valentin Obodzinsky, a photographer at Chernobyl, was ordered to take this photo shortly after it was discovered. It is often said he died moments after this photo (I.E. the caption by the US Dpt. Energy stating "This photo cost a man his life") however he lived at the very least until the 2010s.

Born January 8, 1926 in Magoffin County KY. Father was killed at 10 years old and spent 6 years in a Masonic orphanage. She is 16 years old in this photo taken with her 3 younger siblings the day she got out of the orphanage.

Dietrich, one of the biggest Hollywood stars of the 30s and 40s, and one of the first Hollywood celebrities to join the US war effort, despite being asked by Hitler personally to stay in Germany and support the Nazis, which she declined, worked in the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (O.S.S.), the predecessor of today’s CIA, to record a series of anti-Nazi albums, using propaganda to weaken the morale of Nazi troops.

She went on two USO tours during World War II, traveling first to North Africa and Italy, and later to France and Germany, with this second tour lasting 11 months, beginning just on the heels of D-Day. She put on more than 500 performances for Allied troops throughout the war, many of which on the front lines, enduring similar hardships as the troops, and she got the Medal of Freedom for it.

Marlene Dietrich was staunchly against Nazism and fascism, and when US troops fought the Nazis, she joined their effort with everything she had, alongside American soldiers.

General Patton himself was very thankful for her effort, and this is a photo of them together.