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May 18

May 18 is the 138th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (139th in leap years). There are 227 days remaining.

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and Observances 5 Recorded this date

Events

• 1593 - Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe.
• 1652 - Rhode Island passes the first law in North America making slavery illegal.
• 1631 - In Dorchester, Massachusetts, John Winthrop takes the oath of office and becomes the first Governor of Massachusetts.
• 1765 - Fire destroys one quarter of town of Montreal, Quebec.
• 1783 - Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada- First United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown.
• 1803 - Napoleonic Wars: The United Kingdom revokes the Treaty of Amiens and declares war on France.
• 1804 - Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of France by the French Senate.
• 1848 - Opening of first German National Assembly (Nationalversammlung) in Frankfurt, Germany
• 1863 - American Civil War: The Siege of Vicksburg begins (ends July 4).
• 1869 - Surrender of the Ezo Republic to Japan and its dissolution.
• 1896 - The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that "separate but equal" is constitutional.
• 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 passes the United States Congress giving the President the power to draft soldiers.
• 1926 - Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears while visiting a Venice, California beach.
• 1933 - New Deal: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs an act creating the Tennessee Valley Authority.
• 1944 - World War II: Battle of Monte Cassino - Germans evacuate Monte Cassino and Allied forces take the stronghold after a struggle that claimed 20,000 lives.
• 1948 - The First Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China officially convenes in Nanking.
• 1953 - Rogers Dry Lake, California Jacqueline Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier (she flew in a F-86 Sabrejet at an average speed of 652.337 miles-per-hour).
• 1958 - An F-104 Starfighter sets a world speed record of 1,404.19 mph.
• 1969 - Apollo program: Apollo 10 launches.
• 1974 - Nuclear test: Under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so.
• 1980 - Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington killing 57 and causing US$ 3 billion in damage.
• 1995 - Alain Juppé becomes Prime Minister of France
• 1998 - Microsoft antitrust case: The United States Department of Justice and 20 U.S. states file an antitrust case against Microsoft.
• 2003 - released in the USA on Nintendo GameCube by Sega.

Births

• 1711 - Rudjer Josip Boscovich, Croatian atomic theorist (d. 1787)
• 1785 - John Wilson, Scottish writer (d. 1854)
• 1797 - Frederick Augustus II of Saxony, (d. 1854)
• 1850 - Oliver Heaviside, physicist
• 1872 - Lord Bertrand Russell, mathematician and philosopher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature 1950 (d. 1970)
• 1883 - Walter Gropius, architect, founder of Bauhaus (d. 1969)
• 1889 - Thomas Midgley, chemist and inventor (d. 1944)
• 1891 - Rudolf Carnap, German philosopher (d. 1970)
• 1892 - Pops Foster, jazz musician (assumed birthdate) (d. 1969)
• 1897 - Frank Capra, producer, director, writer (d. 1991)
• 1902 - Meredith Willson, composer (d. 1984)
• 1911 - Big Joe Turner, blues singer (d. 1985)
• 1912 - Walter Sisulu, anti-apartheid activist (d. 2003)
• 1912 - Perry Como, singer (d. 2001)
• 1919 - Dame Margot Fonteyn, ballet dancer (d. 1991)
• 1920 - Pope John Paul II
• 1922 - Kai Winding, jazz musician (d. 1983)
• 1928 - Pernell Roberts, actor
• 1931 - Don Martin, cartoonist (d. 2000)
• 1931 - Robert Morse, actor
• 1937 - Brooks Robinson, Baseball Hall of Famer
• 1937 - Jacques Santer
• 1939 - Hark Bohm, film director
• 1942 - Albert Hammond, musician, composer
• 1944 - Justus Frantz, pianist
• 1946 - Reggie Jackson, Baseball Hall of Famer
• 1949 - Rick Wakeman, musician ("Yes"), composer
• 1949 - Bill Wallace, musician The Guess Who, Winnipeg
• 1950 - Thomas Gottschalk, show master
• 1950 - Rodney Milburn, American athlete
• 1950 - Mark Mothersbaugh, composer, musician
• 1952 - George Strait, country musician
• 1955 - Chow Yun-Fat, actor
• 1960 - Yannick Noah, tennis player
• 1969 - Martika, Cuban-American singer
• 1970 - Tina Fey, writer, comedienne, actress

Deaths

• 1807 - John Douglas, Anglican bishop
• 1808 - Elijah Craig, important to the invention of bourbon whiskey
• 1900 - Jean Gaspard Felix Ravaisson-Mollien, French philosopher
• 1910 - Pauline Garcia-Viardot, singer, composer
• 1911 - Gustav Mahler, composer
• 1935 - T. E. Lawrence, soldier ("Lawrence of Arabia")
• 1973 - Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected to the United States House of Representatives
• 1980 - Ian Curtis, band member of Joy Division
• 1981 - William Saroyan, author
• 1988 - Daws Butler, voice actor
• 1995 - Elizabeth Montgomery, actress
• 1995 - Alexander Godunov, ballet dancer, actor
• 1995 - Elisha Cook Jr, actor
• 1999 - Augustus Pablo, Jamaican reggae singer
• 1999 - Betty Robinson, winner of the first Olympic 100 m for women
• 1999 - Gene Sarazen, golfer, aged 97
• 2003 - Barb Tarbox, anti-smoking crusader, 41

Holidays and Observances

Recorded this date

• 1896 - "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp" (w.m. George Frederick Root)
  - George J. Gaskin
  
  
• 1896 - "Just Tell Them That You Saw Me" (w.m. Paul Dresser)
  - George J. Gaskin
  
  
• 1896 - "Tenting On The Old Camp Ground" (w.m. Walter Kittredge)
  - George J. Gaskin
  
  
• 1896 - "Private Tommy Atkins" (w. Henry Hamilton m. S. Potter)
  - George J. Gaskin
  
  
• 1900 - "Smoky Mokes" (m. Abe Holzmann)
  - bjo. Vess L. Ossman
  
  
• 1900 - "Whistling Rufus" (w. W. Murdock Lind m. Kerry Mills)
  - with bjo. Vess L. Ossman
  
  
• 1903 - "Like A Star That Falls From Heaven" (w. Arthur Lamb m. Kerry Mills)
  - Joe Natus
  
  
• 1903 - "R-E-M-O-R-S-E" (w. George Ade m. Alfred G. Wathall)
  - Joe Natus
  
  
• 1904 - "Goodbye, My Lady Love" (w.m. Joseph E. Howard)
  - Harry Macdonough
  
  
• 1909 - "Beautiful Eyes, Beautiful Lies" (w. George Whiting & Carter De Haven m. Ted Snyder)
  - Ada Jones
  
  
• 1915 - "When I Leave The World Behind" (w.m. Irving Berlin)
  - Sam Ash
  
  
• 1922 - "The Moon Hath Raised Her Lamp Above" (w. John Oxenford m. Sir Julius Benedict)
  - Peter Dawson & Sidney Coltham with O/George W. Byng
  
  
• 1931 - "Dancing In The Dark" (w. Howard Dietz m. Arthur Schwartz)
  - Three Girl Friends with Waring's Pennsylvanians
  
  
• 1932 - "Day By Day" (Nicholls, Gottler)
  - Jack Plant with Jay Wilbur & his Band (as The Connecticut Collegians)
  
  
• 1933 - "I Cover The Waterfront" (w. Edward Heyman m. John Green)
  - Mac Ceppos with Bert Lown & his Orchestra
  
  
• 1934 - "Stompin' At The Savoy" (w. Andy Razaf m. Benny Goodman, Chick Webb & Edgar Sampson)
  - Chick Webb & his Band
  
  
• 1934 - "Little Man, You've Had A Busy Day" (w. Maurice Sigler & Al Hoffman m. Mabel Wayne)
  - Elsie Carlisle
  
  
• 1934 - "The Show Is Over" (Dubin, Conrad, Coslow)
  - Elsie Carlisle
  
  
• 1936 - "Ev'ntide" (Carmichael)
  - Louis Armstrong
  
  
• 1936 - "Lyin' To Myself" (w. Stanley Adams m. Hoagy Carmichael)
  - Louis Armstrong
  
  
• 1936 - "Rolling Along" (w. Lew Brown m. Harry Akst)
  - Peter Dawson
  
  
• 1936 - "Load The Covered Wagon" (Kane & Hunt)
  - Peter Dawson
  
  
• 1936 - "A Song For You And Me" (Rizzi)
  - Peter Dawson
  
  
• 1936 - "I Still Suits Me" (w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern)
  - Paul Robeson & Elisabeth Welch with O/Clifford Greenwood
  
  
• 1937 - "Night And Day" (w.m. Cole Porter)
  - Artie Shaw & his Orchestra
  
  
• 1937 - "Blue Skies" (w.m. Irving Berlin)
  - Artie Shaw & his Orchestra
  
  
• 1938 - "I Love To Whistle" (w. Harold Adamson m. Jimmy McHugh)
  - Jean Hatton with Jim Davidson's Dandies
  
  
• 1938 - "Serenade To The Stars" (w. Harold Adamson m. Jimmy McHugh)
  - Jean Hatton with Jim Davidson's Dandies
  
  
• 1938 - "There's A Gold Mine In The Sky" (w.m. Charles Kenny & Nick Kenny)
  - Jim Davidson's Dandies
  
  
• 1938 - "The Pretty Little Patchwork Quilt" (Box, Cox, Roberts, Butler)
  - Alice Smith with Jim Davidson's Dandies
  
  
• 1938 - "Love Walked In" (w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin)
  - Louis Armstrong
  
  
• 1939 - "My Last Goodbye" (w.m. Eddy Howard)
  - Eddy Howard with Dick Jurgens & his Orchestra
  
  
• 1942 - "Just As Though You Were Here" (w. Eddie DeLange m. John Benson Brooks)
  - Frank Sinatra w. The Pied Pipers with Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra
  
  
• 1942 - "Street Of Dreams" (w. Sam M. Lewis m. Victor Young)
  - Frank Sinatra & Pied Pipers with Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra
  
  
• 1944 - "Blue Dusk" (Brady, Edwards)
  - Al Royal with George Trevare & his Dance Orchestra
  
  
• 1944 - "Shoo-Shoo Baby" (w.m. Phil Moore)
  - Joan Blake with George Trevare & his Dance Orchestra
  
  
• 1944 - "The Magic Of Your Arms" (Allison, Stevens)
  - Joan Blake with George Trevare & his Dance Orchestra
  
  
• 1944 - "You're My Lucky Break" (Mason & Saunders)
  - Joan Blake with George Trevare & his Dance Orchestra
  
  
• 1944 - "No Love, No Nothin'" (w. Leo Robin m. Harry Warren)
  - Al Royal with George Trevare & his Dance Orchestra
  
  
• 1944 - "My Heart Tells Me" (w. Mack Gordon m. Harry Warren)
  - Al Royal with George Trevare & his Dance Orchestra
  
  
• 1945 - "Horses Don't Bet On People" (Loeb)
  - Clyde Rogers with Kay Kyser & his Orchestra
  
  
• 1947 - "Down The Old Spanish Trail" (Kenneth Leslie-Smith & Jimmy Kennedy)
  - Roy Rogers with Spade Cooley & his Western Swing Band
  
  
• 1947 - "Bouquet Of Roses" (w.m. Steve Nelson & Bob Hilliard)
  - Eddy Arnold & his Tennessee Plowboys
  
  
• 1947 - "I'll Hold You In My Heart" (w.m. Eddy Arnold, Hal Horton & Tommy Dilbeck)
  - Eddy Arnold
  
  
• 1949 - "My One And Only Highland Fling" (w. Ira Gershwin m. Harry Warren)
  - Dick Haymes & Dorothy Carless with O/Gordon Jenkins
  
  
• 1950 - "Me And My Imagination" (w.m. Robert Merrill & Al Hoffman)
  - Guy Mitchell with O/Percy Faith
  
  
• 1950 - "Pigalle" (w.m. Georges Konyn, Charles Newman & Georges Ulmer)
  - Danny Kaye with O/Sy Oliver
  
  
• 1951 - "Over A Bottle Of Wine" (Stept, Shapiro)
  - Tony Martin with O/Henri René
  
  
• 1960 - "Do You Mind" (w.m. Lionel Bart)
  - Andy Williams with O/Archie Bleyer
  
  
• 1961 - "Have You Met Miss Jones" (w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers)
  - Frank Sinatra with O/Billy May
  
  
• 1961 - "The Curse Of An Aching Heart" (w. Henry Fink m. Al Piantadosi)
  - Frank Sinatra with O/Billy May
  
  
• 1961 - "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone" (w. Sidney Clare m. Sam H. Stept)
  - Frank Sinatra with O/Billy May
  
  
• 1961 - "Love Walked In" (w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin)
  - Frank Sinatra with O/Billy May
  
  
• 1964 - "The House Of The Rising Sun" (trad adapted Alan Price)
  - The Animals
  
  

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