May 18th, 1801

Born on May 18th, 1801

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What happened on May 18th?

May 18th, 2013

Mark Carson, an openly gay man, was murdered in a hate crime incident in New York City, prompting a 1,500-person march against anti-LGBTQ violence.

May 18th, 2018

Cubana de Aviación Flight 0972 crashed near Santiago de las Vegas shortly after takeoff from José Martí International Airport, killing 112 of the 113 people on board.

May 18th, 2005

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion publicly debuted at the Electronic Entertainment Expo.

May 18th, 2009

The Sri Lanka Army killed Velupillai Prabhakaran, the leader and founder of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, to bring an end to the 26-year Sri Lankan civil war.

May 18th, 2006

The Parliament of Nepal unanimously voted to strip King Gyanendra of many of his powers.

May 18th, 1996

Ireland won the Eurovision song contest for the seventh time, the highest number of wins for any country before Sweden tied it in 2023.

May 18th, 1965

Eli Cohen, a spy who is credited with gathering significant intelligence used by Israel during the Six-Day War, was publicly hanged in Syria.

May 18th, 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, ended.

May 18th, 1952

First Indochina War: Viet Minh forces overran a French and Laotian garrison at Muong Khoua, leaving only four survivors.

May 18th, 1944

The Soviet Union forcibly deported hundreds of thousands of Crimean Tatars to the Uzbek SSR and elsewhere in the country.

May 18th, 1936

In a crime that captivated Japan, Sada Abe strangled her lover, cut off his genitals, and carried them around with her for several days until her arrest.

May 18th, 1933

U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an act establishing the Tennessee Valley Authority to stimulate the economic development of the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly impacted by the Great Depression.

May 18th, 1927

Disgruntled school board treasurer Andrew Kehoe set off explosives with timers and a rifle, causing the Bath School disaster in the Bath Consolidated School in Michigan, killing 44 people in the deadliest mass murder in a school in United States history.

May 18th, 1863

American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant led his Army of the Tennessee across the Big Black River in preparation for the Siege of Vicksburg.

May 18th, 1695

An earthquake measuring .mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}Ms7.8 struck Shanxi Province in northern China, resulting in at least 52,600 deaths.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on May 18th

Same year
Born in 1801

92

Peter Wilhelm Forchhammer

German classical scholar, classical archaeologist and politician (1801-1894)

*October 23rd, 1801, Husum †January 8th, 1894, Kiel

68

Carl August von Steinheil

German physicist (1801-1870)

*October 12th, 1801, Ribeauvillé †September 14th, 1870, Munich

60

Johann Nestroy

Austrian playwright, actor and singer

*December 7th, 1801, Vienna †May 25th, 1862, Graz

51

Vincenzo Gioberti

Italian philosopher and politician (1801-1852)

*April 5th, 1801, Turin †October 26th, 1852, Paris

67

Joseph Mazilier

French ballet dancer and choreographer

*March 13th, 1801, Marseille †May 19th, 1868, 9th arrondissement of Paris

47

William Wakefield

Early New Zealand settler (1801–1848)

*August 8th, 1801, Essex †September 19th, 1848, Wellington

76

Brigham Young

American religious leader (1801–1877)

*June 1st, 1801, Whitingham †August 29th, 1877, Salt Lake City

81

Joseph Plateau

Belgian physicist (1801–1883)

*October 14th, 1801, City of Brussels †September 15th, 1883, Ghent

86

Gustav Fechner

German scientist (1801-1887)

*April 19th, 1801, Żarki Wielkie †November 18th, 1887, Leipzig

90

George Biddell Airy

English mathematician and astronomer (*1801 – †1892)

*July 27th, 1801, Alnwick †January 2nd, 1892, Greenwich

64

Fredrika Bremer

Swedish writer and feminist

*August 17th, 1801, Turku †December 31st, 1865, Österhaninge church parish

89

John Henry Newman

English cleric and cardinal (1801–1890)

*February 21st, 1801, London †August 11th, 1890, Edgbaston

56

Johannes Peter Müller

German physiologist, comparative anatomist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist (1801-1858)

*July 14th, 1801, Koblenz †April 28th, 1858, Berlin

49

Albert Lortzing

German opera composer (1801-1851)

*October 23rd, 1801, Berlin †January 21st, 1851, Berlin

66

Julius Plücker

German mathematician and physicist (1801-1868)

*July 16th, 1801, Elberfeld †May 22nd, 1868, Bonn

69

Pierre Rambur

French physician and entomologist (1801-1870)

*July 21st, 1801, Ingrandes-de-Touraine †August 10th, 1870, Geneva

75

Antoine Augustin Cournot

French economist and mathematician (*1801 – †1877)

*August 28th, 1801, Gray †March 31st, 1877, Paris

120

Andrés de Santa Cruz

Supreme protector of the Peru–Bolivian Confederation

*December 5th, 1801, Puno †November 30th, 1922, Saint-Nazaire

68

Justo José de Urquiza

Argentine politician and military

*October 18th, 1801, Entre Ríos Province †April 11th, 1870, San José palace

81

Prince Charles of Prussia

Third son of Frederick William III of Prussia (1801–1883)

*June 29th, 1801, Charlottenburg Palace †January 21st, 1883, Berlin

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No: With 365 days 1801 is a normal year and no leap year.

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