2516 events
World War II: The US 82nd Airborne Division liberates Wöbbelin concentration camp finding 1,000 dead prisoners, most of
World War II: A death march from Dachau to the Austrian border is halted by the segregated, all-Nisei 522nd Field Artill
World War II: Sinking of the prison ships Cap Arcona, Thielbek and Deutschland by the Royal Air Force in Lübeck Bay, re
World War II: Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg is liberated by the British Army
World War II: The German surrender at Lüneburg Heath is signed, coming into effect the following day
World War II: The Prague uprising begins as an attempt by the Czech resistance to free the city from German occupation
World War II: A Fu-Go balloon bomb launched by the Japanese Army kills six people near Bly, Oregon
World War II: Battle of Castle Itter, one of only two battles in that war in which American and German troops fought coo
World War II: Axis Sally delivers her last propaganda broadcast to Allied troops
World War II: The Prague Offensive, the last major battle of the Eastern Front, begins
World War II: Last German U-boat attack of the war, two freighters are sunk off the Firth of Forth, Scotland
World War II: The German Instrument of Surrender signed at Berlin-Karlshorst comes into effect
End of the Prague uprising, celebrated now as a national holiday in the Czech Republic
Hundreds of Algerian civilians are killed by French Army soldiers in the Sétif massacre
World War II: the Channel Islands are liberated from Nazi occupation
World War II: Yevgeny Khaldei's photograph Raising a Flag over the Reichstag is published in Ogonyok magazine
World War II: The Battle of Poljana, the final skirmish in Europe is fought near Prevalje, Slovenia
Beginning of the Levant Crisis between Britain and France in Syria
Syrian demonstrators in Damascus are fired upon by French troops injuring twelve, leading to the Levant Crisis
World War II: Heinrich Himmler, head of the Schutzstaffel, commits suicide while in Allied custody