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: Argentine cruiser General Belgrano is sunk by British submarine HMS Conqueror with the loss of more than

350: men during the Falklands War

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