Fw: On This Day in History (May 02): Soviets Storm Berlin, the End of bin Laden and a 100-Year Football Curse
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On This Day in History
May 2
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| Soldiers Raqymzhan Qoshqarbaev and Georgij Bulatov raise the Soviet Union flag on the roof of the Reichstag building in 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
? wins a Pulitzer Prize for his play "Death of a Salesman"
? Argentine cruiser General Belgrano is sunk by British submarine HMS Conqueror with the loss of more than 350 men during the Falklands War
? Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Myanmar, killing over 130,000 people and leaving millions homeless
? , 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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S.L. Benfica has failed to win a European Championship since 1962, when former coach B¨¦la Guttmann placed a 100-year curse on the club. Is the curse working?
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