** nominated for the Golden Bear at Berlin

** Salomon Lefmann, Franz Bopp ( Berlin, 1891 – 1897 )

** Berlin Film Festival Special Award

** Twenty-three men and thirty-one women escape to West Berlin through a narrow tunnel under the Berlin Wall.

** Cold War: The Berlin Blockade begins.

** Brigid Berlin, American actress and artist

** The Royal Air Force drops 2, 300 tons of bombs on Berlin.

** Adolf Hitler concedes defeat in his underground Berlin bunker after learning Felix Steiner could not mobilize enough men to launch a counterattack on the Soviets who had just broken through Germany.

** Adolf Hitler marries his longtime mistress Eva Braun in a closed civil ceremony in the Berlin Führerbunker.

** The Soviet Union announces the fall of Berlin.

** V-E Day ( Victory in Europe, as Nazi Germany surrenders ) commemorates the end of WWII in Europe, with the final surrender being to the Soviets in Berlin, attended by representatives of the Western Powers.

** German communists, led by Walter Ulbricht, arrive in Berlin.

** In a speech at the Berlin Sportpalast, German Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels declare a " Total War " against the Allies.

** Thousands storm the Stasi headquarters in East Berlin in an attempt to view their government records.

** German left-wing students blockade the Springer Press HQ in Berlin and many are arrested ( one of them Ulrike Meinhof ).

** The old Deutsche Opernhaus in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is returned to its newly rebuilt house as the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

** A standoff between Soviet and American tanks in Berlin, Germany heightens Cold War tensions.

** German left-wing terrorists Monika Berberich, Gabriella Rollnick, Juliane Plambeck and Inge Viett escape from the Lehrter Straße maximum security prison in West Berlin.

** Spartacist uprising: Socialist demonstrations in Berlin, Germany turn into an attempted communist revolution.

** A bomb explodes at the British Yacht Club in West Berlin, killing Irwin Beelitz, a German boat builder.

** A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 708 crashes near Berlin, Germany, killing all three people on board.

** Irving Berlin, American composer ( d. 1989 )

** The Reichsbank bank opens in Berlin.

** Hard Hat riot: Unionized construction workers attack about 1, 000 students and others protesting the Kent State shootings near the intersection of Wall Street and Broad Street and at New York City Hall.

** Black Monday: Stock market levels fall sharply on Wall Street and around the world.

** The Perl programming language is created by Larry Wall.

** Wall Street Journal Review

** Wailing Wall ( album ), an album by Wailing Wall

** Wall Hill

** The Road to the Wall

** The Statler Brothers for " Flowers on the Wall "

** The Weakest Goeth to the Wall published

** James Guthrie ( engineer ) for The Wall performed by Pink Floyd

** Warrens American Wall Gecko, Tarentola americana warreni

** Kurokabe Square ( aka " Black Wall Square "), shopping streets centered a black wall glasswork shop which made use of an old bank building.

** Wall finishes: painted canvas, oak, mahogany, silk damask and brocade, gilding, imported panelling, plaster

** Michael Tilson Thomas ( conductor ); Ragnar Bohlin, Kevin Fox & Susan McMane ( choir directors ), San Francisco Symphony Chorus, Pacific Boychoir & San Francisco Girls Chorus ; Laura Claycomb, Anthony Dean Griffey, Elza van den Heever, Katarina Karnéus, Quinn Kelsey, James Morris, Yvonne Naef & Erin Wall ( soloists ); San Francisco Symphony ( orchestra ) for Mahler: Symphony No. 8

** Michael Tilson Thomas ( conductor ); Ragnar Bohlin, Kevin Fox & Susan McMane ( choir directors ); Andreas Neubronner ( producer ); Peter Laenger ( engineer / mixer ); Andreas Neubronner ( mastering engineer ); Laura Claycomb, Anthony Dean Griffey, Katarina Karnéus, Quinn Kelsey, James Morris, Yvonne Naef, Elza van den Heever & Erin Wall ; San Francisco Symphony ; Pacific Boychoir, San Francisco Girls Chorus & San Francisco Symphony Chorus for Mahler: Symphony No. 8 ; Adagio From Symphony No. 10

** " Back Against the Wall "

** James Guthrie ( engineer ) for The Wall performed by Pink Floyd

** Daniel Golden, The Wall Street Journal, for his compelling and meticulously documented stories on admission preferences given to the children of alumni and donors at American universities.

** Kevin Helliker and Thomas M. Burton, The Wall Street Journal, for their groundbreaking examination of aneurysms, an often overlooked medical condition that kills thousands of Americans each year.

** Fierce Tiger Leaping Over Wall

** Sloan Great Wall, a galactic filament discovered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

** Gretchen Morgenson of The New York Times, for her trenchant and incisive Wall Street coverage.