TODAY IN HISTORY

• 2016 - UK

Leicester City won its first English Premier League title and made over 150m pounds from claiming the title. The club became England’s most unlikely champions after Tottenham failed to win Chelsea that would have extended the Premier League race for another weekend.

• 2015 - Tunisia

Tunisians unfurled a national flag the size of 19 football pitches in a bid to set a Guinness world record and promote patriotism in the face of Islamist extremism.

• 2011 - Pakistan

Osama bin Laden ( b. 1957), face of global terrorism and architect of September 11, 2001 attacks, was killed in an early morning raid in Abbotabad, Pakistan, by elite American forces. He was buried at sea in a stunning finale to a furtive decade on the run. Three adult males were also killed, including one of bin Laden's sons. A woman was killed when she was used as a shield by a male combatant Courier Ibrahim Saeed Ahmed and his brother Abrar were among the dead. In 2012 former US Navy SEAL Matt Bissonette authored an account of the raid, “No Easy Day," under the pseudonym Mark Owen.

• 2009 - Senegal

Madieye Diallo, a gay man, died of HIV/ AIDS. His body had only been in the ground for a few hours when a mob descended on the weedy cemetery with shovels. They yanked out the corpse, spit on its torso, dragged and dumped it in front of his elderly parents’ home.

• 2008 - Nigeria

Court ruled that former pres. Obasanjo's daughter, Iyabo Obasanjo- Bello, currently in hiding, must face corruption charges.

• 2004 - Nigeria

Yelwa massacre in Plateau State ended. It began on February 4, when armed Muslims attacked the Christians of Yelwa killing more than 78 including 48 who were worshipping inside a church compound. Over 630 nomad Muslims were killed by Christians in retaliation.

• 1945 - Germany

World War II: Fall of Berlin Soviet Union announced the capture of Berlin and Soviet soldiers hoisted their red flag over the Reichstag building. Gen. Heinrich von Vietinghoff signed the official instrument of surrender of all Wehrmacht forces. The US 82nd Airborne Division liberated Wöbbelin concentration camp finding 1000 dead prisoners most of whom starved to death.