May 18th, 1986

Born on May 18th, 1986

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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

Born on May 18th, 1986

40

Kevin Anderson

South African tennis player

*May 18th, 1986, Johannesburg

40

Adam Bałdych

Polish musician

*May 18th, 1986, Gorzów Wielkopolski

40

Marc Heider

American-born German footballer

*May 18th, 1986, Sacramento

40

Sofie Hendrickx

Belgian basketball player

*May 18th, 1986, Lier

40

Eric Bellinger

American singer

*May 18th, 1986, Compton

Same year
Born in 1986

40

Lady Gaga

American singer, songwriter, and actress (born 1986)

*March 28th, 1986, Lenox Hill Hospital

39

Inna

Romanian singer

*October 16th, 1986, Mangalia

40

Kenichi Hayakawa

Japanese badminton player

*April 5th, 1986, Otsu

39

Tian Qing

Chinese badminton player

*August 19th, 1986, Anhua County

39

Lee Sheng-Mu

Taiwanese badminton player

*October 3rd, 1986, Taichung

39

Hoon Thien How

Badminton player

*December 24th, 1986, Kuala Lumpur

39

Natti Natasha

Dominican singer (born 1986)

*December 10th, 1986, Santiago de los Caballeros

39

Lloyd Russell-Moyle

British politician (born 1986)

*September 14th, 1986, Brighton

39

Markus Riva

Latvian singer

*October 2nd, 1986, Talsi

39

Saint Jhn

Guyanese-American rapper and singer

*August 26th, 1986, Brooklyn

40

Brice Leverdez

French badminton player

*April 9th, 1986, La Garenne-Colombes

39

Ayron Jones

American musician

*August 23rd, 1986, Seattle

39

Ellie Goulding

English singer and songwriter

*December 30th, 1986, Hereford

39

Sargis Martirosjan

Austrian weightlifter

*September 14th, 1986, Vagharshapat

40

Chau Hoi Wah

Badminton player

*June 5th, 1986, British Hong Kong

40

Anand Pawar

Badminton player

*July 18th, 1986, Mumbai

40

Elena Prus

Badminton player

*April 30th, 1986, Lysychansk

39

Kim Min-jung

South Korean badminton player

*July 29th, 1986, Jeju

40

Łukasz Moreń

Badminton player

*June 1st, 1986, Warsaw

40

Johanna Goliszewski

Badminton player

*May 9th, 1986, Olsztyn

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No: With 365 days 1986 is a normal year and no leap year.

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