Unless you shut them down from vCenter you won't see an event for the power off. I guess you could analogously look for something like the memory usage state change, or parse through the VM log. I think to concretely get this you'd have to go through the OS log. Or maybe going forward make a note on the machine description about shutdown date.
Good luck!
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