May 18th, 2000

Born on May 18th, 2000

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 9,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 487 days, exactly on October 4th, 2027, people who were born on May 18th, 2000 will be 10,000 days old!

... in seconds, minutes and hours

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, 2000

26

Steven Sessegnon

English association football player (born 2000)

*May 18th, 2000, Roehampton

26

Greg Newsome II

American football cornerback

*May 18th, 2000, Chicago

Same year
Born in 2000

26

Manuel Turizo

Colombian singer

*April 12th, 2000, Montería

25

Mischa Bredewold

Dutch cyclist

*June 20th, 2000, Amersfoort

25

Satwiksairaj Rankireddy

Indian badminton player

*August 13th, 2000, Amalapuram

26

María Becerra

Argentine singer (born 2000)

*February 12th, 2000, Quilmes

26

Ice Spice

American rapper and songwriter (born 2000)

*January 1st, 2000, The Bronx

26

Wang Zhiyi

Chinese badminton player

*April 29th, 2000, Shashi District

25

Nicki Nicole

Argentine singer (born 2000)

*August 25th, 2000, Rosario

26

Khea

Argentine rapper

*April 13th, 2000, Virreyes

26

Instasamka

Russian singer and rapper

*May 11th, 2000, Tobolsk

26

Benee

New Zealand singer-songwriter

*January 30th, 2000, Grey Lynn

26

Surf Mesa

American record producer and multi-instrumentalist

*April 10th, 2000, Seattle

25

Isac Elliot

Finnish-Swedish pop singer, songwriter, dancer and actor

*December 26th, 2000, Kauniainen

26

David Hogg

American politician and activist (born 2000)

*April 12th, 2000, Los Angeles

25

Elena Wassen

German diver

*November 1st, 2000, Eschweiler

25

Belén Aizen

Argentinian handball player

*August 18th, 2000, General San Martín

26

Carolina Ponce

Argentinian Beach handball player

*May 15th, 2000, Ensenada

25

Harry Nach

Chilean singer

*June 8th, 2000, Santiago

26

Jimena Riadigos

Argentinian Beach handball player

*April 7th, 2000, Mar del Plata

26

Rosario Soto

Argentinian Beach handball player

*January 7th, 2000, Cipolletti

25

Mxmtoon

American singer-songwriter and YouTuber

*July 9th, 2000, Oakland

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on May 18th

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day) which are celebrated on May 18th.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

Born on May 18th, 2000
Future birthdays

Leap year

Yes: 2000 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).

Calendar
May 2000