The 18t o Mey is the 138t day o the year (139t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 227 days ti come.
1956 : Lhotse
1980 : Munt Saunt Helens eruption
872 - Louis II o Italy is crouned Emperor o Roum for a seicont time.
1096 - First Crusade: 800 Jews are massacred in the German ceety o Worms .
1652 - Rhode Island passes a law against slavery.
1756 - Seven Years' War: Great Breetain declares war on Fraunce .
1811 - Uruguayan forces defeat Spaingie colonial troops in the Battle o Las Piedras.
1843 - Disruption in Edinburgh o the Free Kirk o Scotland frae the Kirk o Scotland .
1848 - First sittin o Germany 's first Naitional Assembly.
1896 - A mass panic in Moscow , at the coronation o Nicholas II o Roushie , kills 1,329 fowk.
1900 - The Unitit Kinrick proclaims a protectorate ower Tonga .
1944 - Warld War II : German paratroopers evacuate Monte Cassino in Italy efter a major battle there.
1944 - The Deportation o Crimean Tatars bi the Soviet Union govrenment begins.
1956 - A Swiss team reaches the top o Lhotse in the Himalayas .
1969 - Apollo 10 is launched.
1980 - The crackdoon on the Gwangju Uprisin for Democratic richts in Sooth Korea begins; at least 154 fowk are kilt.
1980 - Munt Saunt Helens in the US state o Washington erupts, killin 57 fowk.
1991 - Somaliland proclaims unthirldom frae Somalie , but is nae recognisit bi the rest o the warld.
1991 - Helen Sharman becomes the first Breetish person in space .
1993 - Voters in Denmark approve the Maastricht Treaty .
1996 - Eimear Quinn scores the Republic o Ireland 's 7nt an maist recent Eurovision Sang Contest victory tae date.
1999 - Carlo Azeglio Ciampi becomes Preses o Italy
2013 - Emmelie de Forest o Denmark wins the Eurovision Sang Contest in Malmö , Swaden , wi the sang "Only Teardrops".
2018 - 10 fowk are kilt in the Santa Fe schuil shuitin in Texas .
2018 - Cubana de Aviacion Flicht 972 crashes shortly efter tak-aff frae Havana Airport in Cuba , killing 110 fowk.
2019 - Australie Prime Meenister Scott Morrison 's conservative coaleetion wins a surprise veectory in the kintra's federal election.
2019 - Heinz-Christian Strache demits as Vice Chancellor o Austrick ower a corruption controversy; Chancellor Sebastian Kurz caws for early elections.
2019 - The 64t Eurovision Sang Contest is held in Tel Aviv , Israel , wi Duncan Laurence o the Netherlands achievin his kintra's first contest veectory syne 1975.
Bertrand Russell
Margot Fonteyn
1048 - Omar Khayyam , Persie mathemateecian, astronomer an poet (d. 1131 )
1778 - Andrew Ure , Scots doctor, scholar an chemist (d. 1857 )
1784 - William Tennant , Scots scholart an poet (d. 1848 )
1785 - John Wilson , Scots writer (d. 1854 )
1788 - Hugh Clapperton , Scots naval afficer an splorer (d. 1827 )
1868 - Nicholas II o Roushie (d. 1918 )
1872 - Bertrand Russell , Breetish philosopher (d. 1970 )
1876 - Hermann Müller , Chancellor o Germany (d. 1931 )
1883 - Walter Gropius , German airchitect (d. 1969 )
1889 - Gunnar Gunnarsson , Icelandic writer (d. 1975 )
1891 - Rudolf Carnap , German-American philosopher (d. 1970 )
1897 - Frank Capra , Italian-American film director an producer (d. 1991 )
1909 - Fred Perry , Inglis tennis player (d. 1995 )
1919 - Margot Fonteyn , Inglis ballet dauncer (d. 1991 )
1920 - Pape John Paul II (d. 2005 )
1937 - Jacques Santer , Luxembourg politeecian
1939 - Patrick Cormack , Inglis politeecian
1939 - Peter Grünberg , German pheesicist (d. 2018 )
1941 - Miriam Margolyes , Inglis actress
1947 - John Bruton , Erse Taoiseach
1949 - Pat Rabbitte , Republic o Ireland politeecian
1970 - Tina Fey , American actress an comedienne
1975 - John Higgins , Scots snooker player
1978 - Ricardo Carvalho , Portuguese fitbawer
1980 - Aileen Campbell , Scots politeecian
1983 - Lee Miller , Scots fitbawer
1986 - Kevin Anderson , Sooth African tennis player
1989 - Ryan Wilson , Inglis-born Scots rugby union player
526 - Pape John I
1911 - Gustav Mahler , Austrick componer (b. 1860 )
1922 - Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran , French medicinar (b. 1845 )
1931 - Walter Arnott , Scots sportsman (b. 1861 )
1955 - Mary McLeod Bethune , American activist (b. 1875 )
2007 - Pierre-Gilles de Gennes , French pheesicist (b. 1932 )
2017 - Eric Stevenson , Scots fitbawer (b. 1942 )
Banner o Somaliland
Independence Day (Somaliland )
Internaitional Museum Day
Warld AIDS Vaccine Day
Battle o Las Piedras Day (Uruguay )
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