History Tap No. 16: October 14, 2026

Round 1: historic event

V-J Day in Times Square

Established in New York, on August 14, 1945.

• Eisenstaedt was photographing a spontaneous event that occurred in Times Square during keen public anticipation of the announcement of the end of the war with Japan (that would be made by U.S. President Harry S. Truman at seven o'clock).
• The photograph does not clearly show the face of either person involved, and numerous people have claimed to be the subjects.
• The photograph was published a week later in Life magazine, among many photographs of celebrations around the United States that were presented in a 12-page section entitled "Victory Celebrations".

Round 2: landmark

Dodger Stadium

Opened in Los Angeles, California, on April 10, 1962.

• The stadium hosted the Major League Baseball All-Star Game in 1980 and 2022, as well as the World Series twelve times (1963, 1965, 1966, 1974, 1977, 1978, 1981, 1988, 2017, 2018, 2024, and 2025).
• The stadium hosted a soccer tournament on August 3, 2013, featuring four clubs: the hometown team Los Angeles Galaxy, and Europe's Real Madrid, Everton, and Juventus.
• It also hosted the semifinals and finals of the 2009 and 2017 World Baseball Classics, as well as exhibition baseball during the 1984 Summer Olympics.

Round 3: pop culture, world

2024 Summer Olympics closing ceremony

Happened in Saint-Denis, France, on August 11, 2024.

• The ceremony featured a mix of filmed and live segments, which included the second half of the Los Angeles 2028 presentation, recorded in Long Beach, California.

Round 4: historic event

rescue of Jessica McClure

Happened in Texas, on October 14, 1987.

• Over the next 58 hours, rescuers worked to free her from the 8 in (20 cm) well casing, about 22 ft (7 m) below grade.
• In 1989, ABC produced a television movie about the incident, entitled Everybody's Baby: The Rescue of Jessica McClure.

Round 5: pop culture, world

2014 Winter Paralympics

Happened in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, in 2014.

• With 80 medals, 30 of them being gold, the host country of Russia won the most medals during these Games, and set a record for the most medals won by a single country during a single Winter Paralympic Games.
• The lead-up to these Paralympics were met with concerns regarding Russia's military intervention in the nearby Crimean peninsula of Ukraine the month before the opening of the games.
• The head of Ukraine's NPC stated that it would pull its athletes if the situation escalated, while the United Kingdom and United States chose not to send governmental delegations to the Games.