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| 100 years anniversary | ||||
| 18 May 1925 | Lillian Hoban, American author and illustrator (d. 1998) | |||
| 18 May 1925 | RELIGIOUS | Popular evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, 34, disappeared while on a beach outing. Turning up five weeks later, she claimed to have been kidnapped and held prisoner, before escaping from her abductors. | ||
| 75 years anniversary | ||||
| 18 May 1950 | Rodney Milburn, Jr.: USA, hurdler (1972 Olympics - Gold Medalist) | |||
| 18 May 1950 | Thomas Gottschalk: Bamberg, Germany -- (Telespiele) | |||
| 18 May 1950 | "Liar" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 12 performances | |||
| 18 May 1950 | Tommy Glaviano makes 3 consecutive errors on grounders | |||
| 18 May 1950 | Thomas Gottschalk, German radio and television host | |||
| 18 May 1950 | Rod Milburn, American hurdler and coach (d. 1997) | |||
| 18 May 1950 | Mark Mothersbaugh, American singer-songwriter and painter (Devo) | |||
| 18 May 1950 | Nick Wyman, American actor | |||
| 18 May 1950 | Born on this day Mark Mothersbaugh, co-founder of the new wave band Devo. His other musical projects include work for television series, films, and video games. | |||
| 18 May 1950 | Rodney Milburn Jr USA, hurdler (Olympics-gold-1972) | |||
| 18 May 1950 | Thomas Gottschalk Bamberg Germany, (Telespiele) | |||
| 18 May 1950 | "Liar" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 12 performances | |||
| 18 May 1950 | Tommy Glaviano makes 3 consecutive errors on grounders | |||
| 50 years anniversary | ||||
| 18 May 1975 | Leroy Anderson: Composer, dies at 66 | |||
| 18 May 1975 | John Higgins, Scottish snooker player | |||
| 18 May 1975 | Jack Johnson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist | |||
| 18 May 1975 | Leroy Anderson, American composer and conductor (b. 1908) | |||
| 18 May 1975 | Five times married US country singer, Tammy Wynette was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Stand By Your Man.' Originally released as a single in 1968 in the USA. It proved to be the most successful record of Wynette's career and is one of the most covered songs in the history of country music. | |||
| 18 May 1975 | birth Jack Johnson, Hawaii born singer, songwriter, surfer, (2006 UK No.1 album 'In Between Dreams', 2006 US & Australian No.1 album Sing-A-Longs and Lullabies for the Film Curious George'). He is also known for organizing an annual event, the Kōkua Festival. | |||
| 18 May 1975 | Leroy Anderson composer, dies at 66 | |||
| 18 May 1975 |
death Kasimir Fajans Died 18 May 1975 at age 87 (born 27 May 1887). Polish-American physical chemist who discovered the radioactive displacement law simultaneously with Frederick Soddy of Great Britain. According to this law, when a radioactive atom decays by emitting an alpha particle, the atomic number of the resulting atom is two fewer than that of the parent atom. He discovered several elements that are created through nuclear disintegration. The first discovery of protactinium was in 1913 by Kasimir Fajans and O. Göhring, who found the isotope protactinium-234m (half-life 1.2 min), a decay product of uranium-238; they named it brevium for its short life. (Protactinium-231 was later identified in 1918 by other scientists; the name protoactinium was adopted at this time.) |
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| 25 years anniversary | ||||
| 18 May 2000 | Muhammad Yusuf Ludhianvi, Indian-Pakistani scholar (b. 1932) | |||
| 18 May 2000 | Stephen M. Wolownik, Russian-American composer and musicologist (b. 1946) | |||
| 18 May 2000 | Madonna's boyfriend Guy Ritchie was arrested after attacking a fan outside the superstar's London home. Ritchie was said to have kicked and punched a male fan after the couple returned home from a night out. | |||
| 20 years anniversary | ||||
| 18 May 2005 | A second photo from the Hubble Space Telescope confirms that Pluto has two additional moons, Nix and Hydra. | |||
18 May 2005
Hubble Space Telescope |
Hubble Space Telescope (astronomy) A second photograph by the Hubble Space Telescope confirms the discovery of two new moons of Pluto: Nix and Hydra. |
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| 10 years anniversary | ||||
| 18 May 2015 | Halldór Ásgrímsson, Icelandic accountant and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1947) | |||
| 18 May 2015 | Raymond Gosling, English physicist and academic (b. 1926) | |||
| 18 May 2015 | T. J. Moran, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1930) | |||
| 18 May 2015 | Jean-François Théodore, French businessman (b. 1946) | |||
| 18 May 2015 | Elbert West, American singer-songwriter (b. 1967) | |||
| 18 May 2015 | At least 78 people die in a landslides caused by heavy rains in the Colombian town of Salgar. | |||
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