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On This Day, May 2

  • 2014: Two mudslides in Badakhshan, Afghanistan, leave up to 2,500 people missing.
  • 2012: A pastel version of The Scream, by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, sells for $120 million in a New York City auction, setting a new world record for a work of art at auction.
  • 2011: Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the September 11 attacks and the FBI's most wanted fugitive, is killed by the United States Navy SEALs in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
  • 2011: An E. coli outbreak strikes Europe, mostly in Germany, leaving more than 30 people dead and many others are taken ill.
  • 2008: Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Burma killing over 138,000 people and leaving millions of people homeless.

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