Once Upon A Time – May 2 – 1945 – World War II: Battle Of Berlin Ends As Soviet Army Takes Berlin And General Weidling Surrenders

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

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Today In Film & TV

2008 First film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe released “Iron Man” directed by Jon Favreau, starring Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark

Today In Music

1936 Sergei Prokofiev’s musical “Peter and the Wolf” premieres in Moscow

Today In Sport

2016 Leicester City win the English Premier League title after starting the season at 5,000-1 odds

2018

New research show plants “talk” to each other through their roots and the soil in study on corn published in journal “Plos One”

1998

Battle of Hogwarts: fictional battle that ended the Second Wizarding War with the death of Lord Voldemort at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry