About May 18
May 18, 2024 is the 139th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 227 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 256 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On May 18
- 1652 –Rhode Island passes the first law in North America making slavery illegal.
- 1756 –The Seven Years’ War begins when Great Britain declares war on France.
- 1783 –First United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown (later called Saint John), New Brunswick, Canada after leaving the United States.
- 1803 –Napoleonic Wars: The United Kingdom revokes the Treaty of Amiens and declares war on France.
- 1811 –Battle of Las Piedras: The first great military triumph of the revolution of the Río de la Plata in Uruguay led by Jose Artigas.
- 1848 –Opening of the first German National Assembly (Nationalversammlung) in Frankfurt, Germany.
- 1896 –The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that the “separate but equal” doctrine is constitutional.
- 1910 –The Earth passes through the tail of Comet Halley.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1944 –Deportation of Crimean Tatars by the Soviet Union government.
- 1948 –The First Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China officially convenes in Nanking.
- 1953 –Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier.
- 1956 –First ascent of Lhotse 8,516 meters, by a Swiss team.
- 1969 –Apollo program: Apollo 10 is launched.
- 1974 –Nuclear test: under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so.
- 1991 –Northern Somalia declares independence from the rest of Somalia as the Republic of Somaliland but is not recognized by the international community.
- 1995 –Shawn Nelson, 35, goes on a tank rampage in San Diego.
- 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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