About May 18

May 18, 2025 is the 138th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 227 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.

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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 275 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On May 18

  • 1268 –
    The Principality of Antioch, a crusader state, falls to the Mamluk Sultan Baibars in the Battle of Antioch.
  • 1498 –
    Vasco da Gama reaches the port of Calicut, India.
  • 1593 –
    Playwright Thomas Kyd’s accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe.
  • 1812 –
    John Bellingham is found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging for the assassination of British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval.
  • 1848 –
    Opening of the first German National Assembly (Nationalversammlung) in Frankfurt, Germany.
  • 1860 –
    Abraham Lincoln wins the Republican Party presidential nomination over William H. Seward, who later becomes the United States Secretary of State.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1956 –
    First ascent of Lhotse 8,516 meters, by a Swiss team.
  • 1969 –
    Apollo program: Apollo 10 is launched.
  • 1983 –
    In Ireland, the government launches a crackdown, with the leading Dublin pirate Radio Nova being put off the air.
  • 1991 –
    Northern Somalia declares independence from the rest of Somalia as the Republic of Somaliland but is not recognized by the international community.
  • 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.

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