2011
Seal Team Six
U.S. troops and CIA operatives shot and killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
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1885
Good Housekeeping magazine went on sale for the first time.
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1939
Lou Gehrig established a new major-league baseball record when he played his 2,130th consecutive game. It would take another 57 years before Cal Ripken, Jr., broke it.
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1945
The Soviet Union announced the fall of Berlin.
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1955
Tennessee Williams won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
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1969
The British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth II departed on her maiden voyage to New York.
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1994
Nelson Mandela was victorious in South Africa’s first multiracial election.
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1997
The Labour Party’s Tony Blair became Prime Minister of Britain, ending 18 years of conservative rule. At 44, he was the youngest prime minister in 185 years.
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2012
A pastel version of The Scream, by painter Edvard Munch, sold for $120 million in a New York City auction. The transaction set a new world record for an auctioned piece of art.
