May 18th, 2019

Born on May 18th, 2019

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What happened on May 18th, 2019?

May 18th, 2019

United States presidential election: Joe Biden announces his presidential campaign.

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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, 1974

India conducted its first nuclear test explosion at Pokhran, the first confirmed nuclear test by a nation outside the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.

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.

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

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Who's birthday is on May 18th?

35

Megumi Taruno

Badminton player

*May 18th, 1988, Fukuoka Prefecture

84

Massimo Girotti

Italian actor (1918-2003)

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

31

Luke Black

Serbian singer-songwriter (born 1992)

*May 18th, 1992, Čačak

56

Heinz-Harald Frentzen

German racing driver

*May 18th, 1967, Mönchengladbach

84

John Paul II

264th pope of the Catholic Church

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

18

Alexandria Villaseñor

American climate activist

*May 18th, 2005, Davis

71

Rigobert Günther

German historian of classical antiquity (1928-2000)

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

72

Ben Feringa

Dutch Nobel laureate in chemistry

*May 18th, 1951, Barger-Compascuum

78

Peter Grünberg

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

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

74

Hermann Diels

German classical scholar (1848–1922)

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

97

Bertrand Russell

British philosopher and logician (1872–1970)

*May 18th, 1872, Trellech †February 2nd, 1970, Plas Penrhyn

61

Nathaniel Parker

British actor

*May 18th, 1962, London

90

Robert Morse

American actor

*May 18th, 1931, Newton †April 20th, 2022, Los Angeles

68

Chow Yun-fat

Hong Kong actor

*May 18th, 1955, Hong Kong

25

Polina Edmunds

American figure skater

*May 18th, 1998, Santa Clara

38

Vincent Jay

French biathlete

*May 18th, 1985, Albertville

39

Niki Terpstra

Dutch cyclist

*May 18th, 1984, Beverwijk

37

Kevin Anderson

South African tennis player

*May 18th, 1986, Johannesburg

35

Kévin Réza

French racing cyclist

*May 18th, 1988, Versailles

43

Michaël Llodra

French tennis player (1980-)

*May 18th, 1980, Paris

86

Walter Gropius

German-American architect (1883–1969)

*May 18th, 1883, Berlin †July 5th, 1969, Boston

63

Tyka Nelson

American singer

*May 18th, 1960, Minneapolis

36

Lusiana Lopilato

Argentine actress and model

*May 18th, 1987, Buenos Aires

94

Frank Capra

Italian-born American film director (1897–1991)

*May 18th, 1897, Bisacquino †September 3rd, 1991, La Quinta

52

Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow

Prussian lieutenant-general

*May 18th, 1782, Berlin †December 6th, 1834, Berlin

27

Violett Beane

American actress

*May 18th, 1996, St. Petersburg

44

David Nail

American country musician

*May 18th, 1979, Kennett

35

Taeyang

South Korean singer, dancer, member of Big Bang

*May 18th, 1988, Uijeongbu

52

Brad Friedel

American association soccer player

*May 18th, 1971, Lakewood

68

Pierre Balmain

French fashion designer (1914–1982)

*May 18th, 1914, Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne †June 29th, 1982, Neuilly-sur-Seine

24

Laura Omloop

Belgian singer

*May 18th, 1999, Berlaar

33

Yuya Osako

Japanese association football player

*May 18th, 1990, Kaseda

53

Tina Fey

American actress, comedian, writer, producer, and playwright (born 1970)

*May 18th, 1970, Upper Darby Township

91

Gérard Corboud

Swiss art collector and philanthropist (1925-2017)

*May 18th, 1925, Fribourg †March 5th, 2017

30

Jessica Watson

Australian sailor

*May 18th, 1993, Gold Coast

54

Helena Noguerra

Belgian actress and singer

*May 18th, 1969, Brussels metropolitan area

82

Miriam Margolyes

British-Australian actress

*May 18th, 1941, Oxford

89

Don Bachardy

American artist

*May 18th, 1934, Los Angeles

69

Eric Gerets

Belgian association football player and manager

*May 18th, 1954, Lanaken

42

Mahamadou Diarra

Malian footballer

*May 18th, 1981, Bamako

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