1945:  More than 1,000,000 German soldiers officially surrender to the Western Allies in Italy and Austria

1945: World War II: Battle of Berlin ends as Soviet army takes Berlin and General Weidling surrenders

1949: Arthur Miller wins Pulitzer Prize for “Death of a Salesman”

1982: Falklands War: Argentine cruiser General Belgrano sunk by British submarine Conqueror, killing more than 350 men

2008: Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Myanmar killing over 130,000 people and leaving millions of people homeless

2011: Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the September 11 attacks and the FBI’s most wanted man is killed by US special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan

Source: Onthisday.com