Who was born on May 18 and what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🔷 INTERNATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🌏 International Day of Museums.
🌏 World AIDS Vaccination Day.
🌏 Cultural Freedom Day.
🌏 Day of Astronomy.
🌏 Global Accessibility Awareness Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan – Constitution and Flag Day.
🇺🇦 Ukraine – Science Day.
🇺🇸 USA – Armed Forces Day.
🇭🇹 Haiti – Flag and Universities Day.
🇷🇺 Russia – Kalmyk Tea Day.
🇺🇸 USA – Speech Pathologist Day.
🇺🇦 Ukraine – Day of Reservists.
🇷🇺 Russia – Baltic Fleet Day.
🇸🇴 Somaliland (autonomous Republic) – Independence Day.
🇺🇾 Uruguay – Day of the Battle of Las Piedras.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1268 – Egyptian Mamluks capture Antioch.
– 1291 – The Mamluks of Egypt occupied Akra, the last fortress of the Crusaders in the Holy Land.
– 1595 – Tyavzin peace treaty ending Russo-Swedish war was signed.
– 1642 – The city of Montreal was founded.
– 1703 – Battle of the Neva.
– 1724 – Catherine I ascended the throne of the Russian Empire.
– 1753 – the first bank was opened in the Russian Empire.
– 1804 – Napoleon was declared the emperor of France.
– 1848 – Parliament began its work in Frankfurt.
– 1888 – the first gramophone record was presented in the USA.
– 1900 – Togo became a British protectorate.
– 1944 – Deportation of Crimean Tatars (exile) began.
– 1954 – The European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms came into force.
– 1956 – Ernst Reiss and Luxsinger Fritz Lxosze conquered the river.
– 1974 – India became the sixth country to have nuclear weapons.
– 1980 – European Economic Community introduced economic sanctions against Iran.
– 1989 – Lithuania adopted the Declaration of Independence.
– 1992 – The Constitution of Turkmenistan was adopted.
– 1993 – “Uzbekistan Airlines” national airline opened the next new international route “Bangkok-Tashkent”.
– 1994 – The withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Gaza Strip was completed.
– 2005 – Russia’s CSKA Moscow football team won the UEFA Cup.
– 2008 – the Russian national team became the world champion in hockey.
– 2009 – The new Big Novorossiysk tunnel was opened.
– 2011 – Saab 340 crash in Rio Negro, 22 victims.
– 2016 – crash of An-12 in Dwyer.
– 2018 – A Cubana de Aviacion Boeing 737-201 Advanced crashes on takeoff in Havana, killing 113 people.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1048 – Omar Khayyam (1131) – a great representative of Eastern classical literature, poet, mathematician and philosopher.
– 1525 (1577) – George Gascoigne – English poet and playwright.
– 1788 – Hugh Clapperton (1827) – Scottish explorer of Africa.
– 1824 – Wilhelm Cofmeister (1877) – German botanist, one of the founders of plant embryology.
– 1868 – Nicholas II (1918) – the last emperor of Russia (1894-1917).
– 1895 – Augusto Sandino (1934) – leader of the Nicaraguan national liberation struggle (1927-1934).
– 1901 – Vincent du Vin’o (1978) – American biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1955).
– 1911 – Nikolai Geft (1944) – Soviet intelligence officer.
– 1912 – Richard Brooks (1922) – American film director, Oscar winner.
– 1957 – Michel Cretu – Romanian musician, leader of the “ENIGMA” project.
– 1978 – Ricardo Carvalho – Portuguese football player.
– 1981 – Zhou Shimin – Chinese boxer, two-time Olympic champion (2008, 2012).
– 1987 – Luisana Lopilato – Argentine film and television actress, singer and model.
– 2002 – Alina Zagitova – Russian figure skater, world (2019), European (2018) and Olympic (2018) champion.