On This Day in History
May 2
Historical Events
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1945 Battle of Berlin ends as the Soviet army storms the capital, forcing German commander of the city, General Helmuth Weidling, to surrender as do more than 1,000,000 German soldiers 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
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Famous Birthdays
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Famous Deaths
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