About May 18
May 18, 2021 is the 138th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 227 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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Taurus is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Emerald is the modern birthstone for this month. Sapphire is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 259 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On May 18
- 332 –Constantine the Great announced free distributions of food to the citizens in Constantinople.
- 1498 –Vasco da Gama reaches the port of Calicut, India.
- 1803 –Napoleonic Wars: The United Kingdom revokes the Treaty of Amiens and declares war on France.
- 1812 –John Bellingham is found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging for the assassination of British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval.
- 1843 –The Disruption in Edinburgh of the Free Church of Scotland from the Church of Scotland.
- 1860 –Abraham Lincoln wins the Republican Party presidential nomination over William H. Seward, who later becomes the United States Secretary of State.
- 1863 –American Civil War: The Siege of Vicksburg begins.
- 1917 –World War I: The Selective Service Act of 1917 is passed, giving the President of the United States the power of conscription.
- 1926 –Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears while visiting a Venice, California beach.
- 1933 –New Deal: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an act creating the Tennessee Valley Authority.
- 1948 –The First Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China officially convenes in Nanking.
- 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.
- 1965 –Israeli spy Eli Cohen was hanged in Damascus, Syria.
- 1969 –Apollo program: Apollo 10 is launched.
- 1974 –Completion of the Warsaw radio mast, the tallest construction ever built at the time. It collapsed on August 8, 1991.
- 1974 –Nuclear test: under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so.
- 1980 –1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens: Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington, United States, killing 57 people and causing $3 billion in damage.
- 1983 –In Ireland, the government launches a crackdown, with the leading Dublin pirate Radio Nova being put off the air.
- 1993 –EU - 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.
- 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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