May 18th, 2042

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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.

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

Birthdays and future age on May 18th, 2042

54

Megumi Taruno

Badminton player

*May 18th, 1988, Fukuoka Prefecture

75

Heinz-Harald Frentzen

German racing driver

*May 18th, 1967, Mönchengladbach

50

Luke Black

Serbian singer-songwriter (born 1992)

*May 18th, 1992, Čačak

91

Ben Feringa

Dutch Nobel laureate in chemistry

*May 18th, 1951, Barger-Compascuum

80

Nathaniel Parker

British actor

*May 18th, 1962, London

37

Alexandria Villaseñor

American climate activist

*May 18th, 2005, Davis

87

Chow Yun-fat

Hong Kong actor

*May 18th, 1955, Hong Kong

82

Tyka Nelson

American singer

*May 18th, 1960, Minneapolis

58

Niki Terpstra

Dutch cyclist

*May 18th, 1984, Beverwijk

57

Vincent Jay

French biathlete

*May 18th, 1985, Albertville

56

Kevin Anderson

South African tennis player

*May 18th, 1986, Johannesburg

62

Michaël Llodra

French tennis player (1980-)

*May 18th, 1980, Paris

54

Kévin Réza

French racing cyclist

*May 18th, 1988, Versailles

54

Paul Baysse

French professional footballer

*May 18th, 1988, Bordeaux

101

Miriam Margolyes

British-Australian actress

*May 18th, 1941, Oxford

44

Polina Edmunds

American figure skater

*May 18th, 1998, Santa Clara

108

Don Bachardy

American artist

*May 18th, 1934, Los Angeles

71

Brad Friedel

American association soccer player

*May 18th, 1971, Lakewood

63

David Nail

American country musician

*May 18th, 1979, Kennett

88

Eric Gerets

Belgian association football player and manager

*May 18th, 1954, Lanaken

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