On this day: May 2

May 2: Flag Day in Poland

Soviet soldiers hoist the flag after the Battle of Berlin.

• 1670 – A Royal Charter granted the Hudson's Bay Company a monopoly in the fur trade in Rupert's Land.
• 1757 – Konbaung forces captured the city of Bago, Burma, to end the Konbaung–Hanthawaddy War.
• 1945 – World War II: General Helmuth Weidling, commander of the German troops in Berlin, surrendered the city to Soviet forces led by Marshal Georgy Zhukov, ending the Battle of Berlin (Soviet soldiers pictured).
• 1986 – Henri Toivonen was killed in an accident while leading the Tour de Corse rally, resulting in FISA banning the popular Group B rally cars for the following season.
• 2011 – Osama bin Laden was shot and killed by U.S. Navy SEAL Team 6 in a private residential compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

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