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Anniversary on the 18th of May 0154

Anniversary
Date Text
100 years anniversary
18 May 1924   Jack Whitaker: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -- Sportscaster (ABC, CBS)
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18 May 1924   Priscilla Pointer, American actress
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18 May 1924   Jack Whitaker Philadelphia PA, sportscaster (ABC, CBS)
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18 May 1924   Priscilla Pointer New York NY, actress (Rebecca-Dallas, Call to Glory)
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75 years anniversary
18 May 1949   Bill Wallace: Rocker / actor (Fear, Avenging Force, Desperate)
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18 May 1949   Rick Wakeman: Rock keyboardist (Yes-Fish Out of Water)
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18 May 1949   Stuart Gannes: Detroit, Michigan -- Writer (Fortune)
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18 May 1949   James T Adams: US Historian (Pulitzer 1921)
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18 May 1949   Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America incorporates
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18 May 1949   Rick Wakeman, English keyboard player and songwriter (Yes, Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe, and Warhorse)
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18 May 1949   birth Rick Wakeman, keyboards, Strawbs, Yes, ('1974 UK No.1 album 'Journey To The Centre Of The Earth').
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18 May 1949   birth William Wallace, Guess Who, (1970 US No.1 & UK No.19 single 'American Woman').
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18 May 1949   Bill Wallace rocker (Guess Who)
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18 May 1949   Rick Wakeman rock keyboardist (Yes-Fish Out of Water)
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18 May 1949   Stuart Gannes Detroit MI, writer (Fortune)
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18 May 1949   James T Adams US historian (Pulitzer 1921)
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18 May 1949   Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America incorporates
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18 May 1949   death
Norman Robert Campbell
Died 18 May 1949 (born 1880).

British physicist and philosopher of science.
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50 years anniversary
18 May 1974   Daniel R Topping: US owner (New York Yankees), dies at 61
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18 May 1974   "Streak" by Ray Stevens hits #1
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18 May 1974   100th Preakness: Miguel Rivera aboard Current Little wins in 1:54.6
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18 May 1974   India becomes 6th nation to explode an atomic bomb
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18 May 1974   Nelson Figueroa, American baseball player and sportscaster
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18 May 1974   Chantal Kreviazuk, Canadian singer-songwriter and pianist
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18 May 1974   Valmo Kriisa, Estonian basketball player
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18 May 1974   Nuclear test: under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so.
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18 May 1974   Completion of the Warsaw radio mast, the tallest construction ever built at the time. It collapsed on August 8, 1991.
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18 May 1974   Ray Stevens started a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with the novelty song 'The Streak' which capitalized on the then popular craze of streaking. Also No.1 in the UK.
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18 May 1974   Daniel R Topping US owner (New York Yankees), dies at 61
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18 May 1974   "The Streak" by Ray Stevens hits #1
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18 May 1974   100th Preakness: Miguel Rivera aboard Current Little wins in 1:54.6
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18 May 1974   India becomes 6th nation to explode an atomic bomb
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18 May 1974   First Indian nuclear test
In 1974, India became the sixth nuclear power with the underground test of a nuclear fission device.
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18 May 1974 Smiling Buddha
Smiling Buddha

   Smiling Buddha (physics)
"Smiling Buddha", India's first nuclear test explosion takes place underground at Pokhran.
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18 May 1974 Harry Ricardo
Harry Ricardo

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Harry Ricardo
Harry Ricardo, English mechanical engineer (b. 1885)
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25 years anniversary
18 May 1999   Laura Omloop, Belgian singer-songwriter
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18 May 1999   Augustus Pablo, Jamaican singer, keyboard player, and producer (b. 1954)
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18 May 1999   Betty Robinson, American runner (b. 1911)
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20 years anniversary
18 May 2004   Çetin Alp, Turkish singer (b. 1947)
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18 May 2004   Elvin Jones, American drummer and bandleader (b. 1927)
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18 May 2004   Serge Turgeon, Canadian actor and union leader (b. 1946)
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18 May 2004   Clint Warwick the original bass player with The Moody Blues died from liver disease at the age of 63. Clint left the band in 1966 after playing on their only number one hit, 'Go Now'.
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18 May 2004 Chandra X-ray Observatory
Chandra X-ray Observatory

   Chandra X-ray Observatory (astronomy)
Scientists using the Chandra X-ray Observatory announced their findings that supports the notion that the expansion of the Universe is accelerating.
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15 years anniversary
18 May 2009   Dolla, American rapper (b. 1987)
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18 May 2009   Wayne Allwine, American voice actor and sound editor (b. 1947)
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18 May 2009   Velupillai Prabhakaran, Sri Lankan rebel leader, founded the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (b. 1954)
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18 May 2009   Türkan Saylan, Turkish physician and academic (b. 1935)
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18 May 2009   Sri Lankan Civil War: The LTTE are defeated by the Sri Lankan government, ending almost 26 years of fighting between the two sides.
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10 years anniversary
18 May 2014   Lykourgos Angelopoulos, Greek singer, musicologist, and academic (b. 1941)
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18 May 2014   Dobrica Ćosić, Serbian politician, 1st President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (b. 1921)
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18 May 2014   Hans-Peter Dürr, German physicist and academic (b. 1929)
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18 May 2014   Kaiketsu Masateru, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1948)
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18 May 2014   Chukwuedu Nwokolo, Nigerian physician and academic (b. 1921)
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18 May 2014   Wubbo Ockels, Dutch physicist and astronaut (b. 1946)
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18 May 2014   Jerry Vale, American singer and actor (b. 1932)
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