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What Happened on May 18th This Day in History

Year	Name
2019	United States presidential election: Joe Biden announces his presidential campaign.[14]
2018	A school shooting at Santa Fe High School in Texas kills ten people.
2015	At least 78 people die in a landslide caused by heavy rains in the Colombian town of Salgar.
2009	The LTTE are defeated by the Sri Lankan government, ending almost 26 years of fighting between the two sides.
2006	The post Loktantra Andolan government passes a landmark bill curtailing the power of the monarchy and making Nepal a secular country.
2005	A second photo from the Hubble Space Telescope confirms that Pluto has two additional moons, Nix and Hydra.
1994	Israeli troops finish withdrawing from the Gaza Strip, ceding the area to the Palestinian National Authority to govern.
1993	Riots in Nørrebro, Copenhagen, caused by the approval of the four Danish exceptions in the Maastricht Treaty referendum. Police open fire against civilians for the first time since World War II and injure 11 demonstrators.
1991	Northern Somalia declares independence from the rest of Somalia as the Republic of Somaliland.
1990	In France, a modified TGV train achieves a new rail world speed record of 515.3 km/h (320.2 mph).
1980	Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington, United States, killing 57 people and causing $3 billion in damage.
1980	Students in Gwangju, South Korea begin demonstrations calling for democratic reforms.
1977	Likud party wins the 1977 Israeli legislative election, with Menachem Begin, its founder, as the sixth Prime Minister of Israel.
1974	Nuclear weapons testing: Under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so.
1973	Aeroflot Flight 109 is hijacked mid-flight and the aircraft is subsequently destroyed when the hijacker's bomb explodes, killing all 82 people on board.
1969	Apollo program: Apollo 10 is launched.
1965	Israeli spy Eli Cohen is hanged in Damascus, Syria.
1955	Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First Indochina War, ends.
1953	Jacqueline Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier.
1948	The First Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China officially convenes in Nanking.
1944	World War II: Battle of Monte Cassino: Conclusion after seven days of the fourth battle as German paratroopers evacuate Monte Cassino.
1944	Deportation of Crimean Tatars by the Soviet Union.
1933	New Deal: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an act creating the Tennessee Valley Authority.
1927	The Bath School disaster: Forty-five people, including many children, are killed by bombs planted by a disgruntled school-board member in Bath Township, Michigan.[6][7][8]
1927	After being founded for 20 years, the Nationalist government approves Tongji University to be among the first national universities of the Republic of China.
1926	Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears in Venice, California.
1917	World War I: The Selective Service Act of 1917 is passed, giving the President of the United States the power of conscription.
1912	The first Indian film, Shree Pundalik by Dadasaheb Torne, is released in Mumbai.
1900	The United Kingdom proclaims a protectorate over Tonga.
1896	The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that the "separate but equal" doctrine is constitutional.
1896	Khodynka Tragedy: A mass panic on Khodynka Field in Moscow during the festivities of the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II results in the deaths of 1,389 people.
1863	American Civil War: The Siege of Vicksburg begins.
1860	United States presidential election: Abraham Lincoln wins the Republican Party presidential nomination over William H. Seward, who later becomes the United States Secretary of State.
1848	Opening of the first German National Assembly (Nationalversammlung) in Frankfurt, Germany.
1843	The Disruption in Edinburgh of the Free Church of Scotland from the Church of Scotland.
1812	John Bellingham is found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging for the assassination of British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval.
1811	Battle of Las Piedras: The first great military triumph of the revolution of the Río de la Plata in Uruguay led by José Artigas.
1804	Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of the French by the French Senate.
1803	Napoleonic Wars: The United Kingdom revokes the Treaty of Amiens and declares war on France.
1794	Battle of Tourcoing during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition.
1783	First United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown (later called Saint John, New Brunswick), Canada, after leaving the United States.
1756	The Seven Years' War begins when Great Britain declares war on France.
1695	The 1695 Linfen earthquake in Shannxi, Ming dynasty causes extreme damage and kills at least 52,000 people.
1652	Slavery in Rhode Island is abolished, although the law is not rigorously enforced.
1631	In Dorchester, Massachusetts, John Winthrop takes the oath of office and becomes the first Governor of Massachusetts.
1593	Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe.
1565	The Great Siege of Malta begins, in which Ottoman forces attempt and fail to conquer Malta.
1499	Alonso de Ojeda sets sail from Cádiz on his voyage to what is now Venezuela.
1388	During the Battle of Buyur Lake, General Lan Yu leads a Ming army forward to crush the Mongol hordes of Tögüs Temür, the Khan of Northern Yuan.
1302	Bruges Matins, the nocturnal massacre of the French garrison in Bruges by members of the local Flemish militia.
1291	Fall of Acre, the end of Crusader presence in the Holy Land.
1268	The Principality of Antioch, a crusader state, falls to the Mamluk Sultan Baibars in the Siege of Antioch.
1152	The future Henry II of England marries Eleanor of Aquitaine. He would become king two years later, after the death of his cousin once removed King Stephen of England.
1096	First Crusade: Around 800 Jews are massacred in Worms, Germany.
872	Louis II of Italy is crowned for the second time as Holy Roman Emperor at Rome, at the age of 47. His first coronation was 28 years earlier, in 844, during the reign of his father Lothair I.
332	Emperor Constantine the Great announces free distributions of food to the citizens in Constantinople.

Famous People Born on May 18

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Year	Name
1975	Jack Johnson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1913	Jane Birdwood, Baroness Birdwood, Canadian-English publisher and politician (d. 2000)
1924	Jack Whitaker, American sportscaster (d. 2019)
1975	John Higgins, Scottish snooker player
1947	John Bruton, Irish politician, 10th Taoiseach of Ireland
1990	Josh Starling, Australian rugby league player
1631	Stanislaus Papczyński, Polish priest and saint (d. 1701)
1850	Oliver Heaviside, English engineer, mathematician, and physicist (d. 1925)
1883	Eurico Gaspar Dutra, Brazilian marshal and politician, 16th President of Brazil (d. 1974)
1891	Rudolf Carnap, German-American philosopher and academic (d. 1970)

Famous People Deaths On May 18

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Date	Name
2000	Stephen M. Wolownik, Russian-American composer and musicologist (b. 1946)
2008	Joseph Pevney, American actor and director (b. 1911)
2001	Irene Hunt, American author and illustrator (b. 1907)
1981	William Saroyan, American novelist, playwright, and short story writer (b. 1908)
2014	Dobrica Ćosić, Serbian politician, 1st President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (b. 1921)
1989	Dorothy Ruth, American horse breeder and author (b. 1921)
2015	Halldór Ásgrímsson, Icelandic accountant and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1947)
1911	Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1860)
1780	Charles Hardy, English-American admiral and politician, 29th Colonial Governor of New York (b. 1714)
1792	Levy Solomons, Canadian merchant and fur trader (b. 1730)