General Motors bought the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware.
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The Battle of Berlin ended, with German forces conceding as the Soviet army took Berlin.
William Herschel discovered the first binary star.
Britain founded the Swan River Colony in Western Australia.
The FBI's most wanted man, Osama bin Laden, was killed by the US Navy Seals and CIA operatives in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
An assassination attempt was made on Gangster Frank Costello.
