General Motors bought the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware.
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An assassination attempt was made on Gangster Frank Costello.
139,000 people lost their lives when Cyclone Nargis made landfall in Myanmar.
The Battle of Berlin ended, with German forces conceding as the Soviet army took Berlin.
The FBI's most wanted man, Osama bin Laden, was killed by the US Navy Seals and CIA operatives in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
American Congress eliminated the twenty-cent coin.
