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  • Acre
    Friday May 18, 1291
    Crusades

    Siege of Acre

    Acre
    Friday May 18, 1291

    The mainland Crusader states were finally extinguished with the siege of Acre in 1291. It is reported that many Latin Christians evacuated to Cyprus by boat, were killed or enslaved.




  • Malta
    Tuesday May 18, 1565
    Ottoman Empire

    Great Siege of Malta

    Malta
    Tuesday May 18, 1565

    It was startling, if mostly symbolic, blow to the image of Ottoman invincibility, an image which the victory of the Knights of Malta against the Ottoman invaders in the 1565 Siege of Malta had recently set about eroding.




  • Central Europe (Present-Day Frankfurt, Germany)
    Thursday May 18, 1848
    German revolutions of 1848–1849

    Frankfurt National Assembly was convened

    Central Europe (Present-Day Frankfurt, Germany)
    Thursday May 18, 1848

    On May 18, 1848, 809 delegates (585 of whom were elected) were seated at St. Paul's Church in Frankfurt to convene the Frankfurt National Assembly. Karl Mathy, a right-center journalist, was among those elected as a deputy to the Frankfurt National Assembly.




  • Mafeking, South Africa
    Friday May 18, 1900
    Second Boer War

    Relief of Mafeking

    Mafeking, South Africa
    Friday May 18, 1900

    The Relief of Mafeking on 18 May 1900 provoked riotous celebrations in Britain, the origin of the Edwardian slang word "mafficking".




  • Germany
    Saturday May 18, 1918
    Adolf Hitler

    Black Wound Badge

    Germany
    Saturday May 18, 1918

    He received the Black Wound Badge on 18 May 1918.




  • Wadowice, Poland
    Tuesday May 18, 1920
    Pope John Paul II

    Birth

    Wadowice, Poland
    Tuesday May 18, 1920

    Karol Józef Wojtyła was born in the Polish town of Wadowice. He was the youngest of three children born to Karol Wojtyła (1879–1941), an ethnic Pole, and Emilia Kaczorowska (1884–1929), whose mother's maiden surname was Scholz.




  • France
    Saturday May 18, 1940
    Charles de Gaulle

    De Gaulle was reinforced by two fresh regiments

    France
    Saturday May 18, 1940

    On 18 May he was reinforced by two fresh regiments of armored cavalry, bringing his strength up to 150 vehicles.


  • Brunei
    Saturday May 18, 1963
    Brunei revolt

    A patrol of 1/7 Gurkhas Were Guided To a Camp In The Mangrove

    Brunei
    Saturday May 18, 1963

    On 18 May, a patrol of 1/7 Gurkhas were guided by an informer to a camp in the mangrove. They flushed a party of rebels towards an ambush. Ten rebels were killed or captured. They were the remnants of TNKU headquarters and one of the wounded, shot in the hip, was Yassin Affendi.


  • France
    Thursday May 18, 1972
    Edward VIII

    Queen Elizabeth II visited the Windsors

    France
    Thursday May 18, 1972

    On 18 May 1972, Queen Elizabeth II visited the Windsors while on a state visit to France; she spoke with the Duke for fifteen minutes, but only the Duchess appeared with the royal party for a photocall as the Duke was too ill.


  • India
    Saturday May 18, 1974
    Nuclear Power

    First nuclear weapon test in India

    India
    Saturday May 18, 1974

    India has conducted nuclear weapons tests in a pair of series namely Pokhran I and Pokhran II. India has signed neither the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty nor the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, considering both to be flawed and discriminatory.


  • Argentina
    Tuesday May 18, 1982
    Falklands War

    The Final British negotiating position was presented to Argentina

    Argentina
    Tuesday May 18, 1982

    The tempo of operations increased throughout the first half of May as the United Nations' attempts to mediate a peace were rejected by the Argentinians. The final British negotiating position was presented to Argentina by UN Secretary General Pérez de Cuéllar on 18 May 1982.


  • Cannes, France
    Thursday May 18, 1989
    Zinedine Zidane

    Debut with Cannes

    Cannes, France
    Thursday May 18, 1989

    Zidane made his professional debut with Cannes on 18 May 1989 in a French Division 1 match against Nantes.


  • Beijing, China
    Thursday May 18, 1989
    1989 Tiananmen Square protests

    Li Peng Met With Students For The First Time

    Beijing, China
    Thursday May 18, 1989

    Li Peng met with students for the first time on 18 May in an attempt to placate public concern over the hunger strike. Li Peng said the government's main concern was sending hunger strikers to hospital. The discussions were confrontational and yielded little substantive progress or dialogue, but gained student leaders prominent airtime on national television.


  • United States
    Sunday May 18, 1997
    Angelina Jolie

    True Women

    United States
    Sunday May 18, 1997

    Jolie's next work, as a frontierswoman in the CBS miniseries True Women, released on 18 May 1997, was even less successful; writing for The Philadelphia Inquirer, Robert Strauss dismissed her as "horrid, a fourth-rate Scarlett O'Hara" who relies on "gnashed teeth and overly pouted lips."


  • Geneva, Switzerland
    Monday May 18, 1998
    World Trade Organization

    World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference of 1998

    Geneva, Switzerland
    Monday May 18, 1998

    The second ministerial conference (1998) was held in Geneva in Switzerland.


  • Dagestan, Russia
    Tuesday May 18, 1999
    Second Chechen War

    Seven servicemen were killed when Russian border guard posts

    Dagestan, Russia
    Tuesday May 18, 1999

    On 18 June 1999, seven servicemen were killed when Russian border guard posts were attacked in Dagestan.


  • France
    Friday May 18, 2007
    Christine Lagarde

    The Ministry of Agriculture

    France
    Friday May 18, 2007

    On 18 May 2007, she was moved to the Ministry of Agriculture as part of the government of François Fillon.


  • Beijing, China
    Sunday May 18, 2008
    2008 Sichuan earthquake

    The Giving of Love

    Beijing, China
    Sunday May 18, 2008

    On the evening of May 18, CCTV-1 hosted a special four-hour program called The Giving of Love, hosted by regulars from the CCTV New Year's Gala and round-the-clock coverage anchor Bai Yansong. It was attended by a wide range of entertainment, literary, business, and political figures from mainland China, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan. Donations of the evening totaled 1.5 billion Chinese Yuan (~US$208 million). Of the donations, CCTV gave the biggest corporate contribution at ¥50 million.


  • Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa
    Monday May 18, 2009
    Vodafone

    JSE Limited

    Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa
    Monday May 18, 2009

    On 18 May 2009, Vodacom entered the JSE Limited, the largest stock exchange in South Africa, after Vodafone increased its stake by 15% to 65% to take a majority holding, despite disputes by local trade unions.


  • Syria
    Wednesday May 18, 2011
    Qasem Soleimani

    Soleimani was sanctioned again

    Syria
    Wednesday May 18, 2011

    On 18 May 2011, he was sanctioned again by the U.S. along with Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and other senior Syrian officials due to his alleged involvement in providing material support to the Syrian government.


  • United States
    Wednesday May 18, 2011
    International Monetary Fund

    Dominique Strauss-Kahn resigned

    United States
    Wednesday May 18, 2011

    Former managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn was arrested in connection with charges of sexually assaulting a New York hotel room attendant and resigned on 18 May. The charges were later dropped.


  • Espoo, Finland
    Wednesday May 18, 2016
    Nokia

    Microsoft Mobile sold its Nokia-branded feature phone business to HMD Global

    Espoo, Finland
    Wednesday May 18, 2016

    On 18 May 2016, Microsoft Mobile sold its Nokia-branded feature phone business to HMD Global, a new company founded by former Nokia executive Jean-Francois Baril, and an associated factory in Vietnam to Foxconn's FIH Mobile subsidiary. Nokia subsequently entered into a long-term licensing deal to make HMD the exclusive manufacturer of Nokia-branded phones and tablets outside Japan, operating in conjunction with Foxconn. The deal also granted HMD the right to essential patents and featurephone software.


  • Santa Fe, Texas, U.S.
    Friday May 18, 2018
    Mass Shootings in the United States

    Santa Fe High School Shooting

    Santa Fe, Texas, U.S.
    Friday May 18, 2018

    A school shooting occurred at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas, United States, in the Houston metropolitan area, on May 18, 2018. Ten people – eight students and two teachers – were fatally shot, and thirteen others were wounded. The suspected shooter was taken into custody and later identified by police as Dimitrios Pagourtzis, a 17-year-old student at the school.


  • Wantage
    Sunday May 18, 1692

    Joseph Butler Birth

    Wantage
    Sunday May 18, 1692

    The English theologian and bishop, Joseph Butler, was born in Wantage, England.


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