On this day: May 2

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• 1559 – Scottish clergyman John Knox returned to Scotland from exile to lead the Scottish Reformation.
• 1863 – American Civil War: Confederate general Stonewall Jackson was wounded by friendly fire during the Battle of Chancellorsville, leading to his death by pneumonia eight days later.
• 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.
• 1982 – Falklands War: HMS Conqueror launched three torpedoes and sank ARA General Belgrano (pictured), the only ship ever to have been deliberately sunk by a nuclear submarine in battle.
• 1995 – Croatian War of Independence: Serb forces began firing rockets on the Croatian capital of Zagreb, killing 7 and injuring at least 175 others.

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