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Events on the 18th of May in history

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18 May 0332 Constantine the Great announced free distributions of food to the citizens in Constantinople.
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18 May 0526 St John I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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18 May 1096 First Crusade: Around 800 Jews are massacred in Worms, Germany
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18 May 1096 Crusaders massacre Jews of Worm
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18 May 1152 Henry II of England marries Eleanor of Aquitaine.
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18 May 1268 The Principality of Antioch, a crusader state, falls to the Mamluk Sultan Baibars in the Siege of Antioch.
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18 May 1291 Fall of Acre, the end of Crusader presence in the Holy Land
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18 May 1291 Sultan of Egypt & his son take last Christian stronghold of Acre
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18 May 1302 Bruges Matins, the nocturnal massacre of the French garrison in Bruges by members of the local Flemish militia.
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18 May 1302 Trades people assault on French garrison (Brugse Metten)
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18 May 1385 Peace of Doornik: Gent & Louis van Thoughts
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18 May 1388 During the Battle of Buyur Lake, General Lan Yu led a Chinese army forward to crush the Mongol hordes of Tögüs Temür, the Khan of Northern Yuan.
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18 May 1499 Alonso de Ojeda sets sail from Cádiz on his voyage to what is now Venezuela.
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18 May 1565 The Great Siege of Malta begins, in which Ottoman forces attempt and fail to conquer Malta.
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18 May 1565 The Royal Audiencia of Concepción is created by a decree of Philip II of Spain.
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18 May 1593 Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe.
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18 May 1596 Willem Barents leaves Amsterdam for Novaya Zemlya
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18 May 1619 Hugo the Great sentenced to life in prison
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18 May 1631 In Dorchester, Massachusetts, John Winthrop takes the oath of office and becomes the first Governor of Massachusetts.
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18 May 1631 English colony Massachusetts Bay grants puritarian voting right
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18 May 1631 John Winthrop is elected 1st governor of Massachusetts
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18 May 1642 Montreal Canada founded
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18 May 1642 Montr
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18 May 1652 Rhode Island passes the first law in English-speaking North America making slavery illegal.
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18 May 1652 Rhode Island enacts 1st law declaring slavery illegal
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18 May 1703 Dutch & English troops occupy Cologne
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18 May 1756 The Seven Years' War begins when Great Britain declares war on France.
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18 May 1756 England declares war on France
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18 May 1763 Fire destroys a large part of Montreal
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18 May 1783 First United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown (later called Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada after leaving the United States.
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18 May 1794 2nd battle of Bouvines (France-Austria)
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18 May 1803 Napoleonic Wars: The United Kingdom revokes the Treaty of Amiens and declares war on France.
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18 May 1803 Britain declares war on France after General Napoleon Bonaparte continues interfering in Italy & Switzerland
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18 May 1804 Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of the French by the French Senate.
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18 May 1804 Napoleon Bonaparte proclaimed Emperor of France
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18 May 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.
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18 May 1812 John Bellingham is found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging for the assassination of British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval.
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18 May 1828 Battle of Las Piedras, ends conflict between Uruguay & Brazil
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18 May 1830 Edwin Budding of England signs an agreement for manufacture of his invention, the lawn mower - Saturdays are destroyed forever
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18 May 1843 The Disruption in Edinburgh of the Free Church of Scotland from the Church of Scotland.
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18 May 1843 United Free Church of Scotland forms
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18 May 1846 US troops attack Rio Grande occupying Matamoros
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18 May 1848 Opening of the first German National Assembly (Nationalversammlung) in Frankfurt, Germany.
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18 May 1851 Amsterdam-Nieuwediep telegraph connection linked
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18 May 1852 Massachusetts rules all school-age children must attend school
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18 May 1860 Abraham Lincoln wins the Republican Party presidential nomination over William H. Seward, who later becomes the United States Secretary of State.
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18 May 1860 Republican Party nominates Abraham Lincoln for president
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18 May 1861 Friedrich Hebbels "Kriemhildes Rache, " premieres in Weimar
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18 May 1861 Battle of Sewall's Point VA-1st Federal offense against South
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18 May 1863 Siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi
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18 May 1863 American Civil War: The Siege of Vicksburg begins.
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18 May 1863 Siege of Vicksburg MS
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18 May 1864 Battle of Yellow Bayou LA (Bayou de Glaize, Old Oaks)
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18 May 1866 French Government of De Putte resigns
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18 May 1880 6th Kentucky Derby: George Lewis aboard Fonso wins in 2:37
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18 May 1887 Emmanuel Chabriers opera "Le Roi Malgr
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18 May 1889 Jules Massenets opera "Esclarmonde, " premieres in Paris
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18 May 1889 Jules Massenets opera "Esclarmonde" premieres in Paris France
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18 May 1896 US Supreme court affirms race separation (Plessy vs. Ferguson)
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18 May 1896 The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that the "separate but equal" doctrine is constitutional.
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18 May 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.
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18 May 1896 US Supreme court affirms "separate but equal" policy (Plessy v Ferguson)
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18 May 1897 Irish Music Festival 1st held (Dublin)
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18 May 1897 New York Giant William Joyce sets record of 4 triples in 1 game
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18 May 1897 Paul Dukas "L'Apprenti Sorcier Pruimtabak on the Market" premieres
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18 May 1899 World Goodwill Day-26 nations meet in 1st Hague Peace Conference
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18 May 1900 The United Kingdom proclaims a protectorate over Tonga.
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18 May 1900 Britain proclaims protectorate over kingdom of Tonga
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18 May 1904 American Ion Perdicaris kidnapped in Morocco
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18 May 1910 The Earth passes through the tail of Comet Halley.
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18 May 1910 Passage of Earth through tail of Halley's Comet causes near-panic
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18 May 1911 President / Dictator Jose Porfirio Diaz of Mexico term ends
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18 May 1911 President/dictator Jos
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18 May 1912 The first Indian film, Shree Pundalik by Dadasaheb Torne is released in Mumbai.
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18 May 1912 Maurits Binger establishes 2 Dutch movie companies
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18 May 1912 Philadelphia A's beat Detroit Tigers 24-2, who use amateurs protesting Ty Cobbs suspension
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18 May 1916 US pilot Kiffin Rockwell shoots down German aircraft
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18 May 1917 World War I: The Selective Service Act of 1917 is passed, giving the President of the United States the power of conscription.
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18 May 1917 Satie/Massine/Picasso's ballet "Parade" premieres in Paris France
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18 May 1917 US passes Selective Service act
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18 May 1918 Netherlands Indian Volksraad installed in Batavia
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18 May 1918 TNT explosion in chemical factory in Oakdale PA kills 200
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18 May 1920 46th Preakness: Clarence Kummer aboard Man o' War wins in 1:51.6
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18 May 1922 Dutch 2nd Chamber agrees to 48 hour work week (was 45 hours)
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18 May 1926 Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson vanished in Venice California She showed up a month later and said she had been kidnapped
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18 May 1926 Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears while visiting a Venice, California beach.
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18 May 1927 "Slide Lake" in Gros Ventre Wyoming collapses
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18 May 1927 The Bath School disaster: Forty-five people are killed by bombs planted by a disgruntled school-board member in Michigan.
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18 May 1927 After being founded for 20 years, the Government of the Republic of China approves Tongji University to be among the first national universities of the Republic of China.
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18 May 1927 "Slide Lake" in Gros Ventre WY collapses
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18 May 1927 Grauman's Chinese Theater opens in Hollywood CA
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18 May 1927 Ritz Hotel opens in Boston
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18 May 1929 Dodgers beat Phillies 20-16 and lost 8-6 in 2nd game (record 50 runs)
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18 May 1929 55th Kentucky Derby: Linus McAtee on Clyde Van Dusen wins in 2:10.8
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18 May 1929 Brooklyn Dodgers beat Philadelphia Phillies 20-16 & lost 8-6 in 2nd game (record 50 runs)
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18 May 1933 New Deal: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an act creating the Tennessee Valley Authority.
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18 May 1933 1st major league All-Star Game announced for July 6 at Comiskey Park It will be played as part of the Chicago World's Fair
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18 May 1933 Tennessee Valley Act (TVA) Act signed by FDR, to build dams
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18 May 1934 Congress approves "Lindbergh Act, " makes kidnapping a capital offense
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18 May 1934 Academy Award 1st called Oscar in print (Sidney Skolsky)
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18 May 1934 Jimmie Foxx hits 1st homerun in Comiskey Park center field bleachers
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18 May 1934 TWA begins commercial service
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18 May 1935 Harold Gimblett scores 123 in 80 minutes on debut for Somerset
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18 May 1940 German troops conquer Brussels
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18 May 1941 An Egyptian steamer sinks
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18 May 1941 Italian army under General Aosta surrenders to Britain in Ethiopia
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18 May 1941 Jewish veterans honor their dead
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18 May 1942 New York City ends night baseball games for rest of WWII
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18 May 1943 Allied bombers attack Pantelleria in the Mediterranean Sea
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18 May 1944 World War II: Battle of Monte Cassino: Conclusion after seven days of the fourth battle as German paratroopers evacuate Monte Cassino.
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18 May 1944 Deportation of Crimean Tatars by the Soviet Union government.
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18 May 1944 Expulsion of more than 200,000 Tartars from Crimea by Soviet Union begins, they are accused of collaborating with the Germans
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18 May 1944 Polish 2nd Army corps captures convent of Monte Cassino Italy
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18 May 1945 Tigers & A's both have 7 straight games postponed due to rain
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18 May 1947 A's catcher Warren Rosar catches his 147th game without an error
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18 May 1948 "Ballet Ballads" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 62 performances
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18 May 1948 The First Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China officially convenes in Nanking.
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18 May 1948 Arab Legion captures fort on Mount Scopus
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18 May 1948 Saudi Arabia joins invasion of Israel
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18 May 1949 Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America incorporates
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18 May 1950 "Liar" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 12 performances
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18 May 1950 Tommy Glaviano makes 3 consecutive errors on grounders
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18 May 1951 UN moves HQ to New York City
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18 May 1951 UN moves HQ to NYC
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18 May 1951 US General Collins predicts use of atom bomb in Korea
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18 May 1952 Professor WF Libby said Stonehedge dates back to 1848 BC
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18 May 1953 Jacqueline Cochran is 1st woman to break the sound barrier
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18 May 1953 Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier.
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18 May 1953 1st woman to break the sound barrier (Jacqueline Cochrane, USA)
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18 May 1954 European Convention on Human Rights goes into effect
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18 May 1955 28.7 cm rain falls at Lake Maloya New Mexico (state record)
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18 May 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.
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18 May 1955 Atkinson & Depeiaza take West Indies from 6-187 to 6-494 in day vs Australia
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18 May 1956 First ascent of Lhotse 8,516 meters, by a Swiss team.
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18 May 1956 Hungarian party leader Matyas R
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18 May 1956 Mickey Mantle hits homerun from both sides of plate for record 3rd time
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18 May 1956 Queen Juliana opens Rembrandt fairs in Amsterdam
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18 May 1957 83rd Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Bold Ruler wins in 1:56.2
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18 May 1958 An F-104 Starfighter sets a world speed record of 1,404.19 mph (2,259.82 km/h).
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18 May 1958 Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open
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18 May 1959 "Judy" by David Seville hits #86
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18 May 1959 "Russian Band Stand" by Spencer and Spencer hits #91
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18 May 1959 Launch of the National Liberation Committee of Côte d'Ivoire in Conakry, Guinea.
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18 May 1959 "Castin' My Spell" by Johnny Otis Show hits #52
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18 May 1959 "Judy" by David Seville hits #86
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18 May 1959 "Russian Band Stand" by Spencer & Spencer hits #91
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18 May 1960 Jean Genets "Le Balcon, " premieres in Paris
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18 May 1960 Eileen Fulton begins playing Lisa on As the World Turns (for >30 years)
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18 May 1960 Jean Genets "Le Balcon" premieres in Paris France
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18 May 1961 "Donnybrook!" opens at 46th St. Theater NYC for 68 performances
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18 May 1963 "Beast in Me" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 4 performances
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18 May 1963 "If You Wanna Be Happy" by Jimmy Soul hits #1
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18 May 1963 89th Preakness: Bill Shoemaker aboard Candy Spots wins in 1:56.2
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18 May 1964 David Frost interviews Paul McCartney on the BBC
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18 May 1964 Supreme Court rules unconstitutional to deprive naturalized citizens of citizenship if they return to home country for more than 3 years
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18 May 1965 Israeli spy Eli Cohen was hanged in Damascus, Syria.
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18 May 1965 Gene Roddenberry suggests 16 names including Kirk for Star Trek Captain
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18 May 1965 WTAF TV channel 29 in Philadelphia PA (IND) begins broadcasting
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18 May 1967 Tenn Gov Ellington repeals "Monkey Law, " upheld in 1925 Scopes Trial
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18 May 1967 Silver hits record $1.60 an ounce in London
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18 May 1967 Tennessee Governor Ellington repeals "Monkey Law", upheld in 1925 Scopes Trial
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18 May 1968 94th Preakness: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Forward Pass wins in 1:56.8
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18 May 1968 Al Kaline hits his 307th homerun, surpassing Hank Greenberg as a Tiger
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18 May 1968 Frank Howard ties American League record with homerun in his 6th consecutive game his 10 homeruns in the most in 6 games
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18 May 1969 Apollo 10 (Stafford / Cernan / Young) launched toward lunar orbit
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18 May 1969 Apollo program: Apollo 10 is launched.
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18 May 1969 "Canterbury Tales" closes at Eugene O'Neill NYC after 122 performances
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18 May 1969 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA St Louis Women's Golf Invitational
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18 May 1971 4th ABA Championship: Utah Stars beat Kentucky Colonels, 4 games to 3
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18 May 1971 Bulgarian constitution goes into effect
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18 May 1971 President Nixon rejects the 60 demands of Congressional Black Caucus
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18 May 1971 Stanley Cup: Montr
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18 May 1971 Vampire rapist Wayne Bodens last victim found
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18 May 1972 "Me & The Chimp, " last airs on CBS-TV
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18 May 1972 "Me & The Chimp" last airs on CBS-TV
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18 May 1972 John Sebastian makes 63 consecutive free throws while blindfolded
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18 May 1973 Russian party leader Brezhnev visits West Germany
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18 May 1973 WIBC Bowling Queens won by Dotty Fothergill
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18 May 1974 "Streak" by Ray Stevens hits #1
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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 "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 1977 Nightclub in Cincinnati fire kills 164
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18 May 1977 A nightclub fire in Cincinnati killed 164
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18 May 1977 Juventus wins 6th UEFA Cup at Bilbao
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18 May 1977 Menachem Begin becomes Israel's Prime Minister
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18 May 1978 Italy legalizes abortion
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18 May 1978 Russian dissident Yuri Orlov exiled to compulsory work
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18 May 1980 Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington, United States, killing 57 people and causing $3 billion in damage.
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18 May 1980 Gwangju Massacre: Students in Gwangju, South Korea begin demonstrations calling for democratic reforms.
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18 May 1980 Belgium 3rd Government of Martens forms
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18 May 1980 China People's Republic launch 1st intercontinental rocket
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18 May 1980 Donna White wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic
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18 May 1980 Fernando Belaunde Terry elected President of Peru
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18 May 1980 Mount St Helens blows its top in Washington State, 60 die
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18 May 1982 Detroit Tigers outfielder Larry Herndon is 14th to hit 4 consecutive homeruns
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18 May 1982 Unification Church founder Reverend Sun Myung Moon convicted of tax evasion
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18 May 1983 In Ireland, the government launches a crackdown, with the leading Dublin pirate Radio Nova being put off the air.
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18 May 1983 Senate revises immigration laws, gives millions of illegal aliens legal status under an amnesty program
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18 May 1985 "One Night In Bangkok" by Murray Head hits #3
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18 May 1985 1st remote location for "Nightline" (South Africa)
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18 May 1985 111th Preakness: Pat Day aboard Tank's Prospect wins in 1:53.4
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18 May 1986 "Singin' in the Rain" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 367 performances
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18 May 1986 Becky Pearson wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic
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18 May 1986 Chung Kwung Ying does 2,750 "atomic" hand-stand push-ups
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18 May 1986 David Goch finishes swimming 55,682 miles in a 25-yd pool
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18 May 1986 South African army occupies Botswana, Zimbabwe & Zambia
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18 May 1988 Bayer Leverkusen wins 17th UEFA Cup at Leverkusen
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18 May 1988 In just Oakland's 39th of the season, pitcher Dave Stewart breaks record with his 12th balk en route to 16
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18 May 1989 Lisa Strawberry files for divorce from Darryl
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18 May 1990 2 Germanys sign a monetary union treaty
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18 May 1990 In France, a modified TGV train achieves a new rail world speed record of 515.3 km/h (320.2 mph).
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18 May 1990 "Return To Green Acres" TV movie airs
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18 May 1990 Cubs Ryne Sandberg ends 2nd baseman record 123 errorless game streak
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18 May 1990 East and West Germany sign a monetary union treaty
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18 May 1990 Judy Carne arrested at JFK airport on an 11 year old drug warrant
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18 May 1991 Northern Somalia declares independence from the rest of Somalia as the Republic of Somaliland but is not recognized by the international community.
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18 May 1991 117th Preakness: Jerry Bailey aboard Hansel wins in 1:54
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18 May 1991 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
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18 May 1991 USSR launches 2 cosmonauts to MIR space station
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18 May 1992 Supreme Court rules states could not force mentally unstable criminal defendants to take anti-psychotic drugs
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18 May 1993 Italian police arrest Mafia boss Benedetto "Nitto" Santapaola
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18 May 1993 Riots in Nørrebro, Copenhagen caused by the approval of the four Danish exceptions in the Maastricht Treaty referendum. Police opened fire against civilians for the first time since World War II and injured 11 demonstrators. In total 113 bullets are fired.
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18 May 1993 Danish people vote in favor of ratifying the Maastricht Treaty
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18 May 1994 AC Milan wins Europe Cup 1: 4-0 against Barcelona
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18 May 1994 Israel withdraws from the Gaza Strip
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18 May 1994 Tropical Butterfly Garden at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo opens
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18 May 1995 WIBC Bowling Queens won by Sandra Postma
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18 May 1996 122nd Preakness: Pat Day aboard Louis Quatorze wins in 1:53.2
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18 May 1996 WIBC Bowling Queens won by Lisa Wagner
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18 May 1997 "King David, " opens at New Amsterdam Theater, New York City
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18 May 1997 "King David" opens at New Amsterdam Theater NYC
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18 May 1997 43rd McDonald's LPGA Championship won by Chris Johnson
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18 May 1997 Cadillac NFL Senior Golf Classic
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18 May 1997 Tiger Woods wins Byron Nelson Golf Classic
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18 May 2005 A second photo from the Hubble Space Telescope confirms that Pluto has two additional moons, Nix and Hydra.
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18 May 2006 The post Loktantra Andolan government passes a landmark bill curtailing the power of the monarchy and making Nepal a secular country.
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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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18 May 2011 Twenty-two people are killed when Sol Líneas Aéreas Flight 5428 crashes in southern Argentina.
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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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