May 18

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The May 18 is the 138th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 139th in leap years ), thus remain still 227 days until the end of the year. Even the Roman and the Julian calendar to know May 18 (or Maius ). Dates prior to the Gregorian calendar reform are usually given in the Julian calendar.

Historic anniversaries
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Events

Politics and world events

1291: Siege of Acre
1565: Siege of Malta
1643: Cardinal Mazarin
  • 1643 : After the death of her husband Louis XIII. appoints the French regent Anna of Austria Cardinal Jules Mazarin as Prime Minister in France. In doing so, it implements a decision made by the deceased who appointed the chosen one to succeed Cardinal Richelieu, who died on December 4, 1642, to take care of the affairs of state.
1693: Heidelberg Castle, cont. Leaflet on destruction
1845: Don Carlos
1848: The National Assembly in the Paulskirche
1896: Melville Fuller
1904: Ahmed ben Mohammed el-Raisuli
1939: Forced laborers in the Ravensbrück concentration camp
  • 1939 : The first female prisoners from the Lichtenburg concentration camp are transferred to the newly built women's concentration camp in Ravensbrück . These prisoners first had to work on the further expansion of the camp and the construction of the housing estate for the SS guards.
1941: Operation Rhine Exercise
1944: Monte Cassino after the battle
1980: Rudolf Kirchschläger
1990: coins from both German states
1991: Somaliland

economy

science and technology

44 BC Chr .: rise of the comet Caesar
1969:
Apollo 10 crew

Culture

1593: Christopher Marlowe
1895: Venice in Vienna
1897: Dracula , first edition

society

1927: Memorial stone with the names of the victims
  • 1927 : In the Bath school massacre in Michigan, USA, 45 people, most of them children, are killed in a bomb attack and another 58 are injured, some seriously. The perpetrator Andrew Kehoe is also killed in the attack.

religion

1743: Benedict XIV.
1760: Mannheim Jesuit Church

nature and environment

Disasters

1980: Mount St. Helens erupted

Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .

Sports

1956: Lhotse

Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .

Born

Before the 18th century

Omar Chayyām (* 1048)

18th century

Rugjer Josip Bošković (* 1728)

19th century

1801-1850

William Wilson (* 1809)

1851-1900

Jizchok Leib Perez (* 1851)
Nicholas II (* 1868)
Walter Gropius (* 1883)

20th century

1901-1925

Vincent du Vigneaud (* 1901)
Big Joe Turner (born 1911)
John Paul II (* 1920)

1926-1950

Bernadette Chirac (* 1933)
Anita Kupsch (* 1940)
Albert Hammond (* 1944)

1951-1975

George Strait (* 1952)
Chow Yun-Fat (* 1955)
Ranga Yogeshwar (* 1959)
Sebastian Bezzel (* 1971)

1976-2000

Manuel Ochsenreiter (* 1976)
Guðbjörg Gunnarsdóttir (* 1985)
Stefan Ilsanker (* 1989)

Died

Before the 16th century

Wladislaus II. († 1401)

16th and 17th centuries

Domenico Beccafumi († 1551)

18th century

Arvid Axel Mardefelt († 1708)

19th century

Leopold von Auenbrugger († 1809)
Heinrich Göppert († 1884)

20th century

1901-1950

Isaac Albéniz († 1909)
Alphonse Laveran († 1922)

1951-2000

Mary McLeod Bethune († 1955)
Aníbal Troilo († 1975)
Hermann Höcherl († 1989)

21st century

Elvin Jones († 2004)
Lothar Schmid († 2013)

Holidays and memorial days

The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .


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