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
- 1152 –Henry II of England marries Eleanor of Aquitaine.
- 1302 –Bruges Matins, the nocturnal massacre of the French garrison in Bruges by members of the local Flemish militia.
- 1498 –Vasco da Gama reaches the port of Calicut, India.
- 1631 –In Dorchester, Massachusetts, John Winthrop takes the oath of office and becomes the first Governor of Massachusetts.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1896 –The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that the “separate but equal” doctrine is constitutional.
- 1917 –World War I: The Selective Service Act of 1917 is passed, giving the President of the United States the power of conscription.
- 1933 –New Deal: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an act creating the Tennessee Valley Authority.
- 1944 –Deportation of Crimean Tatars by the Soviet Union government.
- 1944 –World War II: Battle of Monte Cassino – Conclusion after seven days of the fourth battle as German paratroopers evacuate Monte Cassino.
- 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.
- 1958 –An F-104 Starfighter sets a world speed record of 1,404.19 mph (2,259.82 km/h).
- 1980 –1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens: Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington, United States, killing 57 people and causing $3 billion in damage.
- 1995 –Shawn Nelson, 35, goes on a tank rampage in San Diego.
- 2005 –A second photo from the Hubble Space Telescope confirms that Pluto has two additional moons: Nix and Hydra.
- 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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