Historical Events In May - 18

1991  USSR launches 2 cosmonauts to MIR space station on May - 18.  

1991  On May - 18 edwina Booth, actress (Trader Horn), dies of heart failure at 86  

1992  On May - 18 supreme Court rules states could not force mentally unstable criminal defendants to take anti-psychotic drugs  

1992  Lawrence Welk, bandleader (L Welk Show), dies of pneumonia at 89 on May - 18.  

1993  On May - 18 danish people vote in favor of ratifying the Maastricht Treaty  

1993  On this day in history italian police arrest Mafia boss Benedetto "Nitto" Santapaola  

1993  On this day in history heinrich Albertz, theologist/mayor of Berlin (1966-67), dies at 78  

1994  AC Milan wins Europe Cup 1 4-0 against Barcelona on this day in history.  

1994  On this day in history israel withdraws from the Gaza Strip  

1994  AC Milan wins Europe Cup 1: 4-0 against Barcelona on May - 18.  

1995  Alexander Gudonov, Russian dancer/actor (Witness), dies at 45 on May - 18.  

1996  On this day in history dermot O'Callaghan Grubb, prison governor, dies at 76  

1998  On May - 18 justice Department and 20 state attorneys general sue Microsoft, charging it illegally thwarted competition to protect and extend its monopoly on software.  

2008  On May - 18 joseph Pevney, American television director  

2009  On May - 18 sri Lankan Civil War: e LTTE are defeated by e Sri Lankan government, ending almo 26 years of fighting between e two sides.  

2013  RC Toulonnais defeat ASM Clermont Auvergne to win the rugby Heineken Cup final on May - 18.  

2014  Adam Scott overtakes Tiger Woods as the No. 1 ranked golfer in the world on May - 18.  

2018  On May - 18 santa Fe High School shooting; 17 year-old shooter kills 10 and injures 10 in Santa Fe, Texas  

2018  Mexican Damojh airlines flight crashes near Havana airport, Cuba, killing 110 with just 3 survivors on this day in history.  

2018  On this day in history all of Chile's 34 Roman Catholic bishops offer their resignation to Pope Francis in wake of child sex scandal  

2018  K-pop boy band BTS release their album "Love Yourself: Tear", sells 135,000 first week on this day in history.  

2018  On this day in history cubana de Aviación Flight 972 crashes shortly after take-off near José Martí International Airport in Havana, killing 112 and leaving only one survivor.  

2020  US President Donald Trump confirms he is taking controversial drug hydroxychloroquine against Covid-19 on May - 18.  

2020  The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs announces that nearly 1 million people are affected and at least 24 people have died in flash floods that have hit Beledweyne and Jowhar, Somalia on this day in history.  

2020  On this day in history in a historic move, the World Health Organization holds its annual World Health Assembly using video conferencing instead of in-person meetings.  

2021  The Eurovision Song Contest 2021 is held in Rotterdam, Netherlands, after the cancellation of the 2020 contest due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2021 contest is won by Italian entrants MÃ¥neskin with the song "Zitti e buoni".[100] on May - 18.  

2023  On this day in history final Indiana Jones film "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny" premieres at the Cannes Film Festival, starring Harrison Ford and Phoebe Waller-Bridge , directed by James Mangold and executive produced by Steven Spielberg and George Lucas  

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1048  Omar Khayyám, Persian mathematician, poet and philosopher (d. 1131) was born on May - 18.  

1186  On May - 18 birth of konstantin of Rostov, Prince of Novgorod (d. 1218)  

1474  On May - 18 birth of isabella d'Este, Marquise of Mantua (d. 1539)  

1551  Domenico di Pace Beccafumi, Italian Renaissance-Mannerist painter (d. 1486) was born on this day in history.  

1610  On this day in history birth of stefano della Bella, Italian printmaker (d. 1664)  

1662  George Smalridge, English bishop of Bristol (d. 1719) was born on this day in history.  

1692  Joseph Butler, Wantage Berkshire, theologian was born on May - 18.  

1711  Ruggiero G Boscovich, [Rudzer J Boskovic], Italian astronomer was born on May - 18.  

0526  On this day in history john I, Pope (523-26), dies  

1160  On this day in history erik IX Helgi, [The Saint], King of Sweden, dies  

1401  On this day in history death of wÅ‚adysÅ‚aw Opolczyk (German: Ladislaus von Oppel, count palatine of Hungary 1367-1372, governor of Halych-Volhynia 1372  

1410  Ruprecht, Roman catholics German king, dies on this day in history.  

1450  Death of Sejong the Great of Joseon, ruler of Korea (b. 1397) on May - 18.  

1550  Death of John, Cardinal of Lorraine, French churchman (b. 1498) on May - 18.  

1551  On May - 18 death of domenico di Pace Beccafumi, Italian Renaissance-Mannerist painter (d. 1486)  

1584  Death of Ikeda Motosuke, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1559) on May - 18.