WillDekkard
05-18-2010, 05:10 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- May 18th
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* 1152 Henry II of England marries Eleanor of Aquitaine.
* 1268 The Principality of Antioch, a crusader state, falls to the Mamluk Sultan Baibars in the Battle of Antioch.
* 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.
* 1593 Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe.
* 1631 In Dorchester, Massachusetts, John Winthrop takes the oath of office and becomes the first Governor of Massachusetts.
* 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.
* 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.
* 1803 Napoleonic Wars: The United Kingdom revokes the Treaty of Amiens and declares war on France.
* 1804 Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of the French by the French Senate.
* 1811 Battle of Las Piedras: The first great military triumph of the revolution of the Rνo de la Plata in Uruguay led by Jose Artigas.
* 1812 John Bellingham was found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging for the assassination of British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval.
* 1843 The Disruption in Edinburgh of the Free Church of Scotland from the Church of Scotland.
* 1848 Opening of the first German National Assembly (Nationalversammlung) in Frankfurt, Germany.
* 1860 Abraham Lincoln wins the Republican Party nomination over William H. Seward, who later becomes the United States Secretary of State.
* 1863 American Civil War: The Siege of Vicksburg begins.
* 1896 The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that separate but equal is constitutional.
* 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 Dracula, a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker is published.
* 1900 The United Kingdom proclaims a protectorate over Tonga.
* 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 The Bath School Disaster: Forty-five people are killed by bombs planted by a disgruntled school-board member in Michigan.
* 1933 New Deal: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an act creating the Tennessee Valley Authority.
* 1944 World War II: Battle of Monte Cassino Conclusion after seven days of the fourth battle as German paratroopers ("Fallschirmjδger") evacuate Monte Cassino.
* 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 metres, by a Swiss team.
* 1958 An F-104 Starfighter sets a world speed record of 2,259.82 km/h (1,404.19 mph).
* 1959 Launching of the National Liberation Committee of Cτte d'Ivoire in Conakry, Guinea.
* 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.
* 1974 Completion of the Warsaw radio mast, the tallest construction ever built at the time. It later collapses on August 8, 1991.
* 1980 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens: Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington, United States, killing 57 people and causing $3 billion in damage.
* 1980 Gwangju Massacre: Students in Gwangju, South Korea begin demonstrations, calling for democratic reforms.
* 1983 In Ireland, the government launches a crackdown, with the leading Dublin pirate Radio Nova being put off the air.
* 1990 In France, a modified TGV train achieves a new rail world speed record of 515.3km/h (320.2 mph).
* 1991 Northern Somalia declares independence from the rest of Somalia as the Republic of Somaliland but is unrecognised by the international community.
* 1992 The Archivist of the United States officially announces the Twenty-seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution.
* 1993 EU-riots in Nψrrebro, 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.
* 1998 United States v. Microsoft: The United States Department of Justice and 20 U.S. states file an antitrust case against Microsoft.
* 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.
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- May 18th
c/p from Wikipedia
* 1152 Henry II of England marries Eleanor of Aquitaine.
* 1268 The Principality of Antioch, a crusader state, falls to the Mamluk Sultan Baibars in the Battle of Antioch.
* 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.
* 1593 Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe.
* 1631 In Dorchester, Massachusetts, John Winthrop takes the oath of office and becomes the first Governor of Massachusetts.
* 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.
* 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.
* 1803 Napoleonic Wars: The United Kingdom revokes the Treaty of Amiens and declares war on France.
* 1804 Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of the French by the French Senate.
* 1811 Battle of Las Piedras: The first great military triumph of the revolution of the Rνo de la Plata in Uruguay led by Jose Artigas.
* 1812 John Bellingham was found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging for the assassination of British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval.
* 1843 The Disruption in Edinburgh of the Free Church of Scotland from the Church of Scotland.
* 1848 Opening of the first German National Assembly (Nationalversammlung) in Frankfurt, Germany.
* 1860 Abraham Lincoln wins the Republican Party nomination over William H. Seward, who later becomes the United States Secretary of State.
* 1863 American Civil War: The Siege of Vicksburg begins.
* 1896 The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that separate but equal is constitutional.
* 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 Dracula, a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker is published.
* 1900 The United Kingdom proclaims a protectorate over Tonga.
* 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 The Bath School Disaster: Forty-five people are killed by bombs planted by a disgruntled school-board member in Michigan.
* 1933 New Deal: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an act creating the Tennessee Valley Authority.
* 1944 World War II: Battle of Monte Cassino Conclusion after seven days of the fourth battle as German paratroopers ("Fallschirmjδger") evacuate Monte Cassino.
* 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 metres, by a Swiss team.
* 1958 An F-104 Starfighter sets a world speed record of 2,259.82 km/h (1,404.19 mph).
* 1959 Launching of the National Liberation Committee of Cτte d'Ivoire in Conakry, Guinea.
* 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.
* 1974 Completion of the Warsaw radio mast, the tallest construction ever built at the time. It later collapses on August 8, 1991.
* 1980 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens: Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington, United States, killing 57 people and causing $3 billion in damage.
* 1980 Gwangju Massacre: Students in Gwangju, South Korea begin demonstrations, calling for democratic reforms.
* 1983 In Ireland, the government launches a crackdown, with the leading Dublin pirate Radio Nova being put off the air.
* 1990 In France, a modified TGV train achieves a new rail world speed record of 515.3km/h (320.2 mph).
* 1991 Northern Somalia declares independence from the rest of Somalia as the Republic of Somaliland but is unrecognised by the international community.
* 1992 The Archivist of the United States officially announces the Twenty-seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution.
* 1993 EU-riots in Nψrrebro, 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.
* 1998 United States v. Microsoft: The United States Department of Justice and 20 U.S. states file an antitrust case against Microsoft.
* 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.
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