Notable Historical Events on May 18th
May 18th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1096 |
Crusaders massacre Jews of Worms |
1268 |
The Principality of Antioch, a crusader state, falls to the Mamluk Sultan Baibars in the Battle of Antioch. |
1291 |
Sultan of Egypt & his son take last Christian stronghold of Acre |
1302 |
Bruges Matins; the nocturnal massacre of the French garrison in Bruges by local Flemish militia. |
1593 |
Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe. |
1596 |
Willem Barents leaves Amsterdam for Novaya Zemlya |
1619 |
Hugo the Great sentenced to life in prison |
1631 |
English colony Massachusetts Bay grants puritarian voting right |
1631 |
John Winthrop is elected 1st governor of Massachusetts |
1642 |
Montreal, Canada, founded |
1652 |
Rhode Island enacts 1st law declaring slavery illegal |
1703 |
Dutch & English troops occupy Cologne |
1756 |
England declares war on France |
1765 |
Fire destroys a large part of Montreal, Quebec. |
1783 |
First United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada after leaving the United States. |
1794 |
2nd battle of Bouvines (France-Austria) |
1803 |
Britain declares war on France after Napoleon Bonaparte continues interfering in Italy & Switzerland |
1804 |
Napoleon Bonaparte proclaimed Emperor of France by the French Senate |
1811 |
Battle of Las Piedras: The first great military triumph of the revolution of the Río de la Plata in Uruguay lead by Jose Artigas. |
1830 |
Edwin Budding of England signs an agreement for manufacture of his invention, lawn mower. Saturdays are destroyed forever |
1843 |
United Free Church of Scotland forms |
1846 |
US troops attack Rio Grande occupying Matamoros |
1848 |
Opening of the first German National Assembly (Nationalversammlung) in Frankfurt, Germany. |
1851 |
Amsterdam-Nieuwediep telegraph connection linked |
1852 |
Massachusetts rules all school-age children must attend school |
1860 |
Republican Party nominates Abraham Lincoln for president |
1861 |
Battle of Sewall's Point VA-1st Federal offense against South |
1861 |
Friedrich Hebbel's "Kriemhildes Rache" premieres in Weimar |
1863 |
Siege of Vicksburg, MS |
1864 |
Battle of Yellow Bayou, LA (Bayou de Glaize, Old Oaks) |
1866 |
French government of De Putte resigns |
1869 |
Surrender and dissolution of the Ezo Republic to Japan. |
1880 |
6th Kentucky Derby: George Lewis aboard Fonso wins in 2:37.5 |
1887 |
Emmanuel Chabrier's opera "Le Roi Malgré Luis" premieres in Paris |
1889 |
Jules Massenet's opera "Esclarmonde" premieres in Paris |
1896 |
US Supreme court affirms race separation (Plessy v Ferguson) |
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. |
1897 |
Irish Music Festival 1st held (Dublin) |
1897 |
American baseball NY Giant William (Bill) Joyce sets record of 4 triples in 1 game |
1897 |
Paul Dukas' "L'Apprenti Sorcier Pruimtabak on the Market" premieres |
1897 |
Dracula, a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker is published. |
1899 |
World Goodwill Day-26 nations meet in 1st Hague Peace Conference |
1900 |
Britain proclaims protectorate over kingdom of Tonga |
1904 |
In Morocco, a brigand, Raizuli, kidnaps Ion H. Perdicaris, an American citizen |
1911 |
Pres/dictator Jose Porfirio Diaz of Mexico term ends |
1912 |
A's beat Tigers 24-2, who use amateurs protesting Ty Cobbs suspension |
1912 |
Maurits Binger establishes 2 Dutch movie companies |
1916 |
US pilot Kiffin Rockwell shoots down German aircraft |
1916 |
A British Royal Inquiry into the Easter Rising in Dublin is set up in London |
1917 |
Satie/Massine/Picasso's ballet "Parade" premieres in Paris |
1917 |
US passes Selective Service act |
1918 |
Dutch Indian Volksraad installed in Batavia |
1918 |
TNT explosion in chemical factory in Oakdale, Pennsylvania, kills 200 |
1920 |
46th Preakness: Clarence Kummer aboard Man o' War wins in 1:51.6 |
1922 |
Dutch 2nd Chamber agrees to 48 hour work week (was 45 hrs) |
1924 |
Maya Kuzminichna Kopitseva, Gagry Russia, painter of the Leningrad school. |
1926 |
Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson vanished in Venice California She showed up a month later & said she had been kidnapped |
1927 |
"Slide Lake" in Gros Ventre, Wyoming, collapses |
1927 |
Grauman's Chinese Theater opens in Hollywood Calif |
1927 |
Ritz Hotel opens in Boston |
1927 |
Bath School Disaster, Bath MI. Andrew Kehoe blows up Bath Consolidated School killing 38 children, 2 teachers. |
1929 |
55th Kentucky Derby: Linus McAtee on Clyde Van Dusen wins in 2:10.8 |
1929 |
Dodgers beat Phillies 20-16 & lost 8-6 in 2nd game (record 50 runs) |
1933 |
Tennessee Valley Act (TVA) Act signed by FDR, to build dams |
1933 |
1st major league All-Star Game announced for July 6 at Comiskey Park It will be played as part of the Chicago World's Fair |
1934 |
Academy Award 1st called Oscar in print (Sidney Skolsky) |
1934 |
Congress approves "Lindbergh Act" making kidnapping a capital offense |
1934 |
Jimmie Foxx hits 1st HR in Comiskey Park center field bleachers |
1934 |
TWA began commercial service |
1935 |
Harold Gimblett scores 123 in 80 mins on debut for Somerset |
1940 |
German troops conquer Brussels |
1941 |
An Egyptian steamer sinks |
1941 |
Italian army in Ethiopia under general Aosta surrenders to Britain |
1941 |
Jewish veterans honor their dead |
1942 |
NYC ends night baseball games for rest of WW II |
1943 |
Allied bombers attack Pantelleria in the Mediterranean Sea |
1944 |
Polish 2nd Army corps captures convent of Monte Cassino Italy |
1944 |
Expulsion of more than 200,000 Tartars from Crimea by Soviet Union begins, they are accused of collaborating with the Germans |
1945 |
Tigers & A's both have 7 straight games postponed due to rain |
1947 |
A's catcher Warren Rosar catches his 147th game without an error |
1948 |
"Ballet Ballads" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 62 performances |
1948 |
Arab Legion captures fort on Mt Scopus |
1948 |
Saudi Arabia joins invasion of Israel |
1948 |
The First Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China officially convenes in Nanking. |
1949 |
Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America incorporates |
1950 |
"Liar" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 12 performances |
1950 |
Tommy Glaviano makes 3 consecutive errors on grounders |
1951 |
UN moves HQ to NYC |
1951 |
US General Collins predicts use of atom bomb in Korea |
1952 |
Professor WF Libby said Stonehedge dates back to 1848 BC |
1953 |
1st woman to break sound barrier (Jacqueline Cochrane, USA) |
1955 |
28.7 cm rain falls at Lake Maloya New Mexico (state record) |
1955 |
Atkinson & Depeiaza take WI from 6-187 to 6-494 in day v Aust |
1955 |
Queen Juliana opens E55 fair in Amsterdam |
1956 |
Hungarian party leader Matyas Rákosi enforces his own policy |
1956 |
Mickey Mantle hits HR from both sides of plate for record 3rd time |
1956 |
Queen Juliana opens Rembrandt fairs in Amsterdam |
1957 |
83rd Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Bold Ruler wins in 1:56.2 |
1958 |
Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open |
1959 |
"Castin' My Spell" by Johnny Otis Show hits #52 |
1959 |
"Judy" by David Seville hits #86 |
1959 |
"Russian Band Stand" by Spencer & Spencer hits #91 |
1960 |
Eillen Fulton begins playing Lisa on As the World Turn (for > 30 yrs) |
1960 |
Jean Genet's "Le Balcon" premieres in Paris |
1961 |
"Donnybrook!" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 68 performances |
1963 |
"Beast in Me" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 4 performances |
1963 |
"If You Wanna Be Happy" by Jimmy Soul hits #1 |
1963 |
89th Preakness: Bill Shoemaker aboard Candy Spots wins in 1:56.2 |
1964 |
David Frost interviews Paul McCartney on BBC |
1964 |
Supreme Court rules unconstitutional to deprive naturalized citizens of citizenship if they return to home country for more than 3 years |
1965 |
Gene Roddenberry suggests 16 names including Kirk for Star Trek Capt |
1965 |
WTAF TV channel 29 in Philadelphia, PA (IND) begins broadcasting |
1967 |
Silver hits record $1.60 an ounce in London |
1967 |
Tennessee Governor Ellington approves the repeal of the Butler Act or "Monkey Law", upheld in 1925 Scopes Trial |
1968 |
94th Preakness: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Forward Pass wins in 1:56.8 |
1968 |
AL Kaline hits his 307th HR, surpassing Hank Greenberg as a Tiger |
1968 |
Frank Howard ties AL record with HR in his 6th consecutive game his 10 home runs in the most in 6 games |
1969 |
"Canterbury Tales" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 122 perfs |
1969 |
Apollo 10 (Stafford/Cernan/Young) launched toward lunar orbit |
1969 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA St Louis Women's Golf Invitational |
1970 |
Beatles' last released LP, "Let It Be" released in US |
1971 |
4th ABA Championship: Utah Stars beat Kentucky Colonels, 4 games to 3 |
1971 |
Bulgarian constitution goes into effect |
1971 |
Pres Nixon rejects 60 demands of Congressional Black Caucus |
1971 |
Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Chicago Blackhawks, 4 games to 3 |
1971 |
Vampire rapist Wayne Bodens last victim found |
1972 |
"Me & The Chimp" last airs on CBS-TV |
1972 |
John Sebastian makes 63 consecutive free throws while blindfolded |
1973 |
Russian party leader Brezhnev visits West Germany |
1973 |
WIBC Bowling Queens won by Dotty Fothergill |
1974 |
"Streak" by Ray Stevens hits #1 |
1974 |
100th Preakness: Miguel Rivera aboard Current Little wins in 1:54.6 |
1974 |
India becomes 6th nation to explode an atomic bomb |
1974 |
Nigeria announces 55 percent government participation in all oil concessions |
1977 |
Juventus wins 6th UEFA Cup at Bilbao |
1977 |
Menachem Begin becomes Prime Minister of Israel |
1977 |
Nightclub in Cincinnati fire kills 164 |
1978 |
Italy legalizes abortion |
1978 |
Russian dissident Yuri Orlov exiled to compulsory work |
1980 |
Belgium 3rd government of Martens forms |
1980 |
China PR launch 1st intercontinental rocket |
1980 |
Donna White wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic |
1980 |
Fernando Belaunde Terry elected president of Peru |
1980 |
Mount St Helens blows its top in Washington State, 60 die |
1980 |
Gwangju Massacre: Students in Gwangju, South Korea begin demonstrations, calling for democratic reforms. |
1982 |
Tigers outfielder Larry Herndon is 14th to hit 4 consecutive HRs |
1982 |
Unification Church founder Rev Sun Myung Moon convicted of tax evasion |
1983 |
Senate revises immigration laws, gives millions of illegal aliens legal status under an amnesty program |
1985 |
"One Night In Bangkok" by Murray Head hits #3 |
1985 |
111th Preakness: Pat Day aboard Tank's Prospect wins in 1:53.4 |
1985 |
1st remote location for "Nightline" (South Africa) |
1986 |
"Singin' in the Rain" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 367 perfs |
1986 |
Becky Pearson wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic |
1986 |
Chung Kwung Ying did 2,750 atomic hand-stand push-ups |
1986 |
David Goch finishes swimming 55,682 miles in a 25-yd pool |
1986 |
South African army occupies Botswana, Zimbabwe & Zambia |
1986 |
Chung Kwung Ying did 2,750 "atomic" hand-stand push-ups |
1988 |
Bayer Leverkusen wins 17th UEFA Cup at Leverkusen |
1988 |
In just Oakland's 39th of the season, pitcher Dave Stewart breaks record with his 12th balk en route to 16 |
1990 |
East and West Germany sign a monetary union treaty |
1990 |
Cubs Ryne Sandberg ends 2nd baseman record 123 errorless game streak |
1990 |
Judy Carne arrested at JFK airport on an 11 year old drug warrant |
1990 |
TV movie "Return To Green Acres" airs |
1990 |
Jari Kurri sets a record for scoring in a Stanley Cup Finals game, registering three goals and two assists vs the Boston Bruins |
1991 |
117th Preakness: Jerry Bailey aboard Hansel wins in 1:54 |
1991 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1991 |
USSR launches 2 cosmonauts to MIR space station |
1992 |
Supreme Court rules states could not force mentally unstable criminal defendants to take anti-psychotic drugs |
1993 |
Danish people vote in favor of ratifying the Maastricht Treaty |
1993 |
Italian police arrest Mafia boss Benedetto "Nitto" Santapaola |
1994 |
AC Milan wins Europe Cup 1: 4-0 against Barcelona |
1994 |
Israel withdraws from the Gaza Strip |
1994 |
Tropical Butterfly Garden at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo opens |
1995 |
WIBC Bowling Queens won by Sandra Postma |
1996 |
122nd Preakness: Pat Day aboard Louis Quatorze wins in 1:53.2 |
1996 |
WIBC Bowling Queens won by Lisa Wagner |
1997 |
"King David" opens at New Amsterdam Theater NYC |
1997 |
43rd McDonald's LPGA Championship won by chris johnson |
1997 |
Cadillac NFL Senior Golf Classic |
1997 |
Tiger Woods wins Byron Nelson Golf Classic |
1998 |
United States v. Microsoft: The United States Department of Justice and 20 U.S. states file an antitrust case against Microsoft. |
2001 |
DreamWorks Pictures "Shrek", starring Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, and Cameron Diaz in voice-over roles, debuts |
2001 |
Saudi Arabia selects the eight foreign companies to take part in its "Gas Initiative," three core venture gas projects that have an anticipated worth of $25 billion |
2006 |
The post Loktantra Andolan government passes a landmark bill curtailing the power of the monarchy and making Nepal a secular country. |
2009 |
Sri Lankan Civil War: The LTTE are defeated by the Sri Lankan government, ending almost 26 years of fighting between the two sides. |
2013 |
RC Toulonnais defeat ASM Clermont Auvergne to win the rugby Heineken Cup final |
2013 |
139th Preakness: Gary Stevens aboard Oxbow wins in 1:57.54 |
2014 |
Adam Scott overtakes Tiger Woods as the No. 1 ranked golfer in the world |
2016 |
76ers Win NBA Draft Lottery, Lakers Stay at No. 2, Keep Pick |
2016 |
Politics|Donald Trump Says He's Willing to Talk Directly With Kim Jong-un |
2016 |
Odor Suspended for 8 Games and Bautista for 1 for Brawl |
2016 |
US opens criminal probe into doping by Russian athletes |
2016 |
Obama speaks to Philippines' president-elect, stresses human rights |
2016 |
US Senate set to approve $1.1 billion in Zika virus funding |
2016 |
Canada fires cost oil sands production $985m |
2016 |
9/11 bill passes US Senate despite Saudi threats |
2017 |
Trump says Russia probe will reveal no collusion with his campaign |
2017 |
Ex-FBI chief Mueller named special prosecutor for Trump-Russia probe |
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