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100 years anniversary | ||||
18 May 1924 | Jack Whitaker: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -- Sportscaster (ABC, CBS) | |||
18 May 1924 | Priscilla Pointer, American actress | |||
18 May 1924 | Jack Whitaker Philadelphia PA, sportscaster (ABC, CBS) | |||
18 May 1924 | Priscilla Pointer New York NY, actress (Rebecca-Dallas, Call to Glory) | |||
75 years anniversary | ||||
18 May 1949 | Bill Wallace: Rocker / actor (Fear, Avenging Force, Desperate) | |||
18 May 1949 | Rick Wakeman: Rock keyboardist (Yes-Fish Out of Water) | |||
18 May 1949 | Stuart Gannes: Detroit, Michigan -- Writer (Fortune) | |||
18 May 1949 | James T Adams: US Historian (Pulitzer 1921) | |||
18 May 1949 | Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America incorporates | |||
18 May 1949 | Rick Wakeman, English keyboard player and songwriter (Yes, Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe, and Warhorse) | |||
18 May 1949 | birth Rick Wakeman, keyboards, Strawbs, Yes, ('1974 UK No.1 album 'Journey To The Centre Of The Earth'). | |||
18 May 1949 | birth William Wallace, Guess Who, (1970 US No.1 & UK No.19 single 'American Woman'). | |||
18 May 1949 | Bill Wallace rocker (Guess Who) | |||
18 May 1949 | Rick Wakeman rock keyboardist (Yes-Fish Out of Water) | |||
18 May 1949 | Stuart Gannes Detroit MI, writer (Fortune) | |||
18 May 1949 | James T Adams US historian (Pulitzer 1921) | |||
18 May 1949 | Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America incorporates | |||
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 | |||
18 May 1974 | "Streak" by Ray Stevens hits #1 | |||
18 May 1974 | 100th Preakness: Miguel Rivera aboard Current Little wins in 1:54.6 | |||
18 May 1974 | India becomes 6th nation to explode an atomic bomb | |||
18 May 1974 | Nelson Figueroa, American baseball player and sportscaster | |||
18 May 1974 | Chantal Kreviazuk, Canadian singer-songwriter and pianist | |||
18 May 1974 | Valmo Kriisa, Estonian basketball player | |||
18 May 1974 | Nuclear test: under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so. | |||
18 May 1974 | Completion of the Warsaw radio mast, the tallest construction ever built at the time. It collapsed on August 8, 1991. | |||
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. | |||
18 May 1974 | Daniel R Topping US owner (New York Yankees), dies at 61 | |||
18 May 1974 | "The Streak" by Ray Stevens hits #1 | |||
18 May 1974 | 100th Preakness: Miguel Rivera aboard Current Little wins in 1:54.6 | |||
18 May 1974 | India becomes 6th nation to explode an atomic bomb | |||
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 (physics) "Smiling Buddha", India's first nuclear test explosion takes place underground at Pokhran. |
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18 May 1974
Harry Ricardo |
death Harry Ricardo Harry Ricardo, English mechanical engineer (b. 1885) |
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25 years anniversary | ||||
18 May 1999 | Laura Omloop, Belgian singer-songwriter | |||
18 May 1999 | Augustus Pablo, Jamaican singer, keyboard player, and producer (b. 1954) | |||
18 May 1999 | Betty Robinson, American runner (b. 1911) | |||
20 years anniversary | ||||
18 May 2004 | Çetin Alp, Turkish singer (b. 1947) | |||
18 May 2004 | Elvin Jones, American drummer and bandleader (b. 1927) | |||
18 May 2004 | Serge Turgeon, Canadian actor and union leader (b. 1946) | |||
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'. | |||
18 May 2004
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) | |||
18 May 2009 | Wayne Allwine, American voice actor and sound editor (b. 1947) | |||
18 May 2009 | Velupillai Prabhakaran, Sri Lankan rebel leader, founded the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (b. 1954) | |||
18 May 2009 | Türkan Saylan, Turkish physician and academic (b. 1935) | |||
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. | |||
10 years anniversary | ||||
18 May 2014 | Lykourgos Angelopoulos, Greek singer, musicologist, and academic (b. 1941) | |||
18 May 2014 | Dobrica Ćosić, Serbian politician, 1st President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (b. 1921) | |||
18 May 2014 | Hans-Peter Dürr, German physicist and academic (b. 1929) | |||
18 May 2014 | Kaiketsu Masateru, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1948) | |||
18 May 2014 | Chukwuedu Nwokolo, Nigerian physician and academic (b. 1921) | |||
18 May 2014 | Wubbo Ockels, Dutch physicist and astronaut (b. 1946) | |||
18 May 2014 | Jerry Vale, American singer and actor (b. 1932) |