Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS, commits suicide while in Allied custody.

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1962

Cuban Missile Crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, US President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation.