Wounded Knee Massacre
Yorktown surrender.
British surrender at Yorktown Virginia was the last major event,
There was a war.
The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand was a major event that led to WW1
World War Two.
Those were the last two attacks in WW2 including Nagasaki which took 3 days after Hiroshima.
Two different topics/questions here; "Local Struggle..." and "Major event of the cold war..." 1. The VN War wasn't a local struggle. It involved the world powers and potential atomic war. 2. Any SHOOTING war during the cold war was a major event.
Wounded Knee 1890.
World War 2 was a pretty major event.
Vietnam war
guns
a major event in the cold war was the space race