1945: Battle of Berlin ends as the Soviet army storms the capital, forcing German commander of the city general Helmuth Weidling to surrender
1945: More than 1,000,000 German soldiers officially surrender to the Western Allies in Italy and Austria
1949: Arthur Miller wins a Pulitzer Prize for his play “Death of a Salesman”
1982: Falklands War: Argentine cruiser General Belgrano is sunk by British submarine HMS 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: Οnthisday.com
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