Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 18
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Ulysses S. Grant
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Jackie Cochran
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Sada Abe
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Vietnamese refugees transferring ships
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Eruption of Mount Template:Nowrap
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| Armed Forces Day in the United States (2013) | refimprove |
| 1268 – Baibars and his Mamluk forces captured Antioch, capital of the crusader state, the Principality of Antioch. | needs more footnotes |
| 1848 – During the aftermath of the March Revolution in the German Confederation, the Frankfurt Parliament opened in Paulskirche, Frankfurt. | needs more footnotes |
| 1944 – World War II: Polish forces under Lieutenant General Władysław Anders captured Monte Cassino, Italy, after a four-month battle. | inappropriate tone, refimprove section |
| 1948 – The first session of the Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China convened in the then-Chinese capital of Nanjing. | refimprove section |
| 1953 – At Rogers Dry Lake, California, in her Canadair Sabre, American Jackie Cochran became the first female pilot to break the sound barrier. | refimprove section |
| 1980 – A popular uprising against the nationwide martial law imposed by South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan's government began in Gwangju, but it was ultimately crushed by the army about nine days later. | unreferenced section |
| 1991 – Following the collapse of central government during the Somali Civil War, the Somali National Movement declared the independence of Somaliland (flag pictured), an internationally unrecognized de facto sovereign state. | refimprove sections |
| Alexander Suvorov |d|1800 | inappropriate tone |
| Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry |b|1778 | lots of CN tags (12) |
| * 1980 – [[Mount St. Helens|Mount Template:Nowrap]] explosively erupted, killing approximately 57 people in southern Washington state, reducing hundreds of square miles to wasteland, and causing more than Template:Nowrap in damage. | Tagged as misleading |
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- 1388 – At the Battle of Buir Lake, a Ming Chinese army led by general Lan Yu defeated the forces of Tögüs Temür, the Mongol khan of Northern Yuan.
- 1863 – American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant led his Army of the Tennessee across the Big Black River in preparation for the Siege of Vicksburg.
- 1896 – Ruling in the landmark decision Plessy v. Ferguson, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the legality of racial segregation in public transportation under the "separate but equal" doctrine.
- 1926 – Pentecostal evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson was reportedly kidnapped near Venice Beach in Los Angeles before reappearing five weeks later in Mexico.
- 1933 – U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an act establishing the Tennessee Valley Authority to stimulate the economic development of the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly impacted by the Great Depression.
- 1936 – In a crime that captivated Japan, Sada Abe (pictured) strangled her lover, cut off his genitals, and carried them around with her for several days until her arrest.
- 1944 – The Soviet Union forcibly deported hundreds of thousands of Crimean Tatars to the Uzbek SSR and elsewhere in the country.
- 1952 – First Indochina War: Viet Minh forces overran a French and Laotian garrison at Muong Khoua, leaving only four survivors.
- 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, ended.
- 1965 – Eli Cohen, a spy who is credited with gathering significant intelligence used by Israel during the Six-Day War, was publicly hanged in Syria.
- 1974 – India conducted its first nuclear test explosion at Pokhran, the first confirmed nuclear test by a nation outside the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.
- 1996 – Ireland won the Eurovision song contest for the seventh time, the highest number of wins for any country before Sweden tied it in 2023.
- 2005 – The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion publicly debuted at the Electronic Entertainment Expo.
- 2006 – The Parliament of Nepal unanimously voted to strip King Gyanendra of many of his powers.
- 2013 – Mark Carson, an openly gay man, was murdered in a hate crime incident in New York City, prompting a 1,500-person march against anti-LGBTQ violence.
- Born/died this day: | Omar Khayyam |b|1048| Guido Luca Ferrero |b|1537| John George Children |b|1777| Elijah Craig |d|1808| William Hood Simpson |b|1888| Hedley Verity |b|1905| Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran |d|1922|Peter Hammersley |b|1928| Frank Hsieh |b|1946| Brad Raffensperger |b|1955| Template:Nowrap |d|1955| Ian Curtis |d|1980|
Notes
- Pokhran-II (1998) appears on May 11, so Smiling Buddha should not appear in the same year
- Brown v. Board of Education (1954) appears on May 17, so Plessy v. Ferguson should not appear the same year
- Lassen Peak appears on May 22, so 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens should not appear the same year
May 18: Haitian Flag Day in Haiti (1803); Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Crimean Tatar Genocide in Ukraine Template:Main page image/OTD
- 1302 – Armed insurrectionists massacred the occupying French garrison in Bruges, Flanders, killing approximately 2,000 people.
- 1695 – An earthquake measuring Template:M struck Shanxi Province in northern China, resulting in at least 52,600 deaths.
- 1927 – Disgruntled school board treasurer Andrew Kehoe set off explosives with timers and a rifle (aftermath pictured), causing the Bath School disaster in the Bath Consolidated School in Michigan, killing 44 people in the deadliest mass murder in a school in United States history.
- 2009 – The Sri Lanka Army killed Velupillai Prabhakaran, the leader and founder of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, to bring an end to the 26-year Sri Lankan civil war.