Very nice for sharing the results of your investigation.

For those, who just like me, didn’t know the photograph you mentioned, I have googled it and here is the link to look it up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vj_day_kiss.jpg

Mary Leakey first spotted the fossilized molar teeth that won Louis Leakey fame for discovery of the missing link.
(this is the missing link between man and ape)

Benjamin Franklin conducted experiments with a kite and discovered that lightning is an electrical discharge.

A Scottish surgeon, James Baird, discovered hypnosis.
(I like this one)

Golfer Jack Nicklaus became the oldest man ever to win the Masters.

Alfred Eisenstaedt made his most famous photo, of a sailor sweeping up a girl in a kiss during a V-J day celebration in Times Square.
(Do you know this photo? I love it, because I’m a romantic and I love kissing — you can Google it if you don’t know it)

Isabel Bevier became the first person to use a thermometer for meat cooking.
(I think this one is funny!)

President John F. Kennedy was killed in Dallas in what was probably, according to the House Select Committee on Assassinations, a conspiracy. He had planned to tell the crowd that working for peace was not a sign of weakness, and to pledge that America’s strength “will never be used in pursuit of aggressive ambitions.”
(This one is very sad, for many reasons of course)

By age 46, Victor Pigott successfully completed five Bachelor degrees, six graduate diplomas and three Master’s degrees, plus some incomplete qualifications.
(I am following in the footsteps of this guy. I have one Bachelor’s and two Master’s and some incomplete work — not nearly as accomplished as Pigott, but I can see that we are similarly afflicted by the disease of the perpetual student)

Hugs!