May 18th, 1980

Born on May 18th, 1980

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What happened on May 18th, 1980?

May 18th, 1980

Students in Gwangju, South Korea begin demonstrations calling for democratic reforms.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwangju_Uprising

What else happened on May 18th?

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 (pictured) 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 (aftermath pictured), 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.

May 18th, 1302

Armed insurrectionists massacred the occupying French garrison in Bruges, Flanders, killing approximately 2,000 people.

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

Born on May 18th, 1980

44

Michaël Llodra

French tennis player (1980-)

*May 18th, 1980, Paris

44

Manny Malhotra

Canadian ice hockey player

*May 18th, 1980, Mississauga

44

Ali Zafar

Pakistani singer and film actor

*May 18th, 1980, Lahore

44

Diego Pérez

Uruguayan footballer

*May 18th, 1980, Montevideo

44

Matt Long

American actor

*May 18th, 1980, Winchester

44

Esperanza Gomez

Colombian pornographic actress

*May 18th, 1980, Belalcázar

44

Reggie Evans

American basketball player

*May 18th, 1980, Pensacola

44

Luis Terrero

Dominican Republic baseball player

*May 18th, 1980, Santa Cruz de Barahona

44

Ivan Jolić

Bosnia and Herzegovina association football player

*May 18th, 1980, Livno

44

Barrett Baber

Musical artist

*May 18th, 1980, Arkansas

44

Sanem Çelik

Turkish actress and ballet dancer

*May 18th, 1980, Istanbul

44

Felicia Pearson

American actress

*May 18th, 1980, Baltimore

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36

Megumi Taruno

Badminton player

*May 18th, 1988, Fukuoka Prefecture

57

Heinz-Harald Frentzen

German racing driver

*May 18th, 1967, Mönchengladbach

84

Massimo Girotti

Italian actor (1918-2003)

*May 18th, 1918, Mogliano †January 5th, 2003, Rome

32

Luke Black

Serbian singer-songwriter (born 1992)

*May 18th, 1992, Čačak

84

John Paul II

264th pope of the Catholic Church

*May 18th, 1920, Wadowice †April 2nd, 2005, Apostolic Palace

45

David Nail

American country musician

*May 18th, 1979, Kennett

73

Ben Feringa

Dutch Nobel laureate in chemistry

*May 18th, 1951, Barger-Compascuum

71

Rigobert Günther

German historian of classical antiquity (1928-2000)

*May 18th, 1928, Magdeburg †April 2nd, 2000, Leipzig

36

Kévin Réza

French racing cyclist

*May 18th, 1988, Versailles

43

Mahamadou Diarra

Malian footballer

*May 18th, 1981, Bamako

40

Niki Terpstra

Dutch cyclist

*May 18th, 1984, Beverwijk

78

Peter Grünberg

German physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (1939-2018)

*May 18th, 1939, Plzeň †April 7th, 2018, Jülich

45

Michal Martikán

Slovak slalom canoeist

*May 18th, 1979, Liptovský Mikuláš

62

Nathaniel Parker

British actor

*May 18th, 1962, London

39

Vincent Jay

French biathlete

*May 18th, 1985, Albertville

45

Milivoje Novaković

Slovenian association football player

*May 18th, 1979, Ljubljana

26

Polina Edmunds

American figure skater

*May 18th, 1998, Santa Clara

74

Hermann Diels

German classical scholar (1848–1922)

*May 18th, 1848, Biebrich †June 4th, 1922, Dahlem

38

Kevin Anderson

South African tennis player

*May 18th, 1986, Johannesburg

46

Ricardo Carvalho

Portuguese footballer

*May 18th, 1978, Amarante

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43

Kristen Bell

American actress (born 1980)

*July 18th, 1980, Huntington Woods

44

Cai Yun

Chinese badminton player

*January 19th, 1980, Suzhou

44

Jeph Jacques

Comic author and illustrator (1980-)

*June 17th, 1980, Rockville

44

Volker Bruch

German actor

*March 9th, 1980, Munich

44

Julia Hummer

German actress and singer

*April 24th, 1980, Hagen

44

Henriett Koósz

Paralympic tennis and badminton player

*February 14th, 1980, Kőszeg

43

Dag Inge Ulstein

Norwegian politician

*December 4th, 1980, Sula

43

Joy Mogensen

Danish politician

*August 11th, 1980, Toronto

43

Petra Schmidt-Schaller

German actress

*August 28th, 1980, Magdeburg

43

Mathias Boe

Danish badminton player

*July 11th, 1980, Frederikssund

44

Sudheer Babu

Indian film actor and former professional badminton player

*May 11th, 1980, Vijayawada

38

Vibeke Skofterud

Norwegian cross country skier

*April 20th, 1980, Askim Municipality †July 29th, 2018, Hove

43

Maya Diab

Lebanese singer, entertainer, actress and television personality

*November 12th, 1980, Beirut

43

Matias Varela

Swedish actor

*November 1st, 1980, Stockholm

43

Roman Weidenfeller

German association football player

*August 6th, 1980, Diez

43

Mustafa Ceceli

Turkish singer

*November 2nd, 1980, Ankara

44

Dani Kind

Canadian actress

*January 10th, 1980, Toronto

44

Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani

Emir of Qatar

*June 3rd, 1980, Doha

44

Lee Kyung-won

South Korean badminton player

*January 21st, 1980, Changwon

44

Wolke Hegenbarth

Actress

*May 6th, 1980, Meerbusch

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Yes: 1980 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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