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Events from History on May 18

1096 : Crusaders massacre Jews of Worm
1291 : Sultan of Egypt & his son take last Christian stronghold of Acre
1302 : Trades people assault on French garrison (Brugse Metten)
1385 : Peace of Doornik: Gent & Louis van Thoughts
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
1794 : 2nd battle of Bouvines (France-Austria)
1803 : Britain declares war on France after Napoleon Bonaparte continues
1803 : interfering in Italy & Switzerland
1804 : Napoleon Bonaparte proclaimed Emperor of France
1828 : Battle of Las Piedras, ends conflict between Uruguay & Brazil
1830 : Edwin Budding of England signs an agreement for manufacture of
1830 : his invention, lawn mower. Saturdays are destroyed forever
1843 : United Free Church of Scotland forms
1846 : US troops attack Rio Grande occupying Matamoros
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 Hebbels "Kriemhildes Rache," premieres in Weimar
1863 : Siege of Vicksburg, MS
1864 : Battle of Yellow Bayou, LA (Bayou de Glaize, Old Oaks)
1866 : French Govt of De Putte resigns
1887 : Emmanuel Chabriers opera "Le Roi Malgr‚ Luis," premieres in Paris
1889 : Jules Massenets opera "Esclarmonde," premieres in Paris
1896 : US Supreme court affirms race separation (Plessy v Ferguson)
1897 : Irish Music Festival 1st held (Dublin)
1897 : Paul Dukas "L'Apprenti Sorcier Pruimtabak on the Market," premieres
1899 : World Goodwill Day-26 nations meet in 1st Hague Peace Conference
1900 : Britain proclaims protectorate over kingdom of Tonga
1904 : American Ion Perdicaris kidnapped in Morocco
1910 : Passage of Earth through tail of Halley's Comet causes near-panic
1911 : Pres/dictator Jos‚ 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
1917 : Satie/Massine/Picasso's ballet "Parade," premieres in Paris
1917 : US passes Selective Service act
1918 : Neth Indian Volksraad installed in Batavia
1918 : TNT explosion in chemical factory in Oakdale Penn kills 200
1922 : Dutch 2nd Chamber agrees to 48 hour work week (was 45 hrs)
1926 : Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson vanished in Venice Calif She
1926 : 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
1933 : 1st major league All-Star Game announced for July 6 at Comiskey Park
1933 : It will be played as part of the Chicago World's Fair
1933 : Tennessee Valley Act (TVA) Act signed by FDR, to build dams
1934 : Academy Award 1st called Oscar in print (Sidney Skolsky)
1934 : Congress approves "Lindbergh Act," makes 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 under general Aosta surrenders to Britain in Ethiopia
1941 : Jewish veterans honor their dead
1943 : Allied bombers attack Pantelleria in the Mediterranean Sea
1944 : Expulsion of more than 200,000 Tartars from Crimea by Soviet Union
1944 : Polish 2nd Army corps captures convent of Monte Cassino Italy
1944 : begins, they are accused of collaborating with the Germans
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
1949 : Antiquarian Booksellers Assoc 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)
1953 : Jacqueline Cochran is 1st woman to break the sound barrier
1954 : European Convention on Human Rights goes into effect
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 R kosi 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
1960 : Eillen Fulton begins playing Lisa on As the World Turn (for > 30 yrs)
1960 : Jean Genets "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
1964 : David Frost interviews Paul McCartney on BBC
1964 : Supreme Court rules unconstitutional to deprive naturalized citizens
1964 : 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 : Tenn Gov Ellington repeals "Monkey Law," upheld in 1925 Scopes Trial
1968 : AL Kaline hits his 307th HR, surpassing Hank Greenberg as a Tiger
1969 : "Canterbury Tales" closes at Eugene O'Neill NYC after 122 perfs
1969 : Apollo 10 (Stafford/Cernan/Young) launched toward lunar orbit
1971 : Bulgarian constitution goes into effect
1971 : Pres Nixon rejects 60 demands of Congressional Black Caucus
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 : India becomes 6th nation to explode an atomic bomb
1977 : A nightclub fire in Cincinnati killed 164
1977 : Menachem Begin becomes Israel's Prime Minister
1977 : Nightclub in Cincinnati fire kills 164
1978 : Italy legalizes abortion
1978 : Russian dissident Yuri Orlov exiled to compulsory work
1980 : Belgium 3rd govt of Martens forms
1980 : China PR launch 1st intercontinental rocket
1980 : Fernando Belaunde Terry elected president of Peru
1980 : Mount St Helens blows its top in Washington State, 60 die
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
1983 : legal status under an amnesty program
1985 : 1st remote location for "Nightline" (South Africa)
1986 : "Singin' in the Rain" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 367 perfs
1986 : Chung Kwung Ying did 2,750 "atomic" hand-stand push-ups
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
1988 : In just Oakland's 39th of the season, pitcher Dave Stewart breaks
1988 : record with his 12th balk en route to 16
1989 : Lisa Strawberry files for divorce from Darryl
1990 : 2 Germanys sign a monetary union treaty
1990 : Judy Carne arrested at JFK airport on an 11 year old drug warrant
1990 : Return To Green Acres TV movie airs
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
1992 : 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 : Israel withdraws from the Gaza Strip
1994 : Tropical Butterfly Garden at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo opens
1995 : WIBC Bowling Queens won by Sandra Postma
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

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