Page 9: Historical Events In May - 18

1991  On May - 18 uSSR launches 2 cosmonauts to MIR space station   

1991  Edwina Booth, actress (Trader Horn), dies of heart failure at 86 on May - 18.   

1992  On May - 18 supreme Court rules states could not force mentally unstable criminal defendants to take anti-psychotic drugs   

1992  Lawrence Welk, bandleader (L Welk Show), dies of pneumonia at 89 on this day in history.   

1993  Danish people vote in favor of ratifying the Maastricht Treaty on this day in history.   

1993  Italian police arrest Mafia boss Benedetto "Nitto" Santapaola on May - 18.   

1993  Heinrich Albertz, theologist/mayor of Berlin (1966-67), dies at 78 on this day in history.   

1994  On May - 18 aC Milan wins Europe Cup 1 4-0 against Barcelona   

1994  Israel withdraws from the Gaza Strip on May - 18.   

1994  AC Milan wins Europe Cup 1: 4-0 against Barcelona on May - 18.   

1995  Alexander Gudonov, Russian dancer/actor (Witness), dies at 45 on May - 18.   

1996  Dermot O'Callaghan Grubb, prison governor, dies at 76 on May - 18.   

1998  Justice Department and 20 state attorneys general sue Microsoft, charging it illegally thwarted competition to protect and extend its monopoly on software on May - 18.   

2008  On May - 18 joseph Pevney, American television director   

2009  On May - 18 sri Lankan Civil War: e LTTE are defeated by e Sri Lankan government, ending almo 26 years of fighting between e two sides.   

2013  RC Toulonnais defeat ASM Clermont Auvergne to win the rugby Heineken Cup final on this day in history.   

2014  Adam Scott overtakes Tiger Woods as the No. 1 ranked golfer in the world on May - 18.   

2018  On May - 18 santa Fe High School shooting; 17 year-old shooter kills 10 and injures 10 in Santa Fe, Texas   

2018  On May - 18 mexican Damojh airlines flight crashes near Havana airport, Cuba, killing 110 with just 3 survivors   

2018  All of Chile's 34 Roman Catholic bishops offer their resignation to Pope Francis in wake of child sex scandal on May - 18.   

2018  K-pop boy band BTS release their album "Love Yourself: Tear", sells 135,000 first week on May - 18.   

2018  On this day in history cubana de Aviación Flight 972 crashes shortly after take-off near José Martí International Airport in Havana, killing 112 and leaving only one survivor.   

2020  US President Donald Trump confirms he is taking controversial drug hydroxychloroquine against Covid-19 on May - 18.   

2020  The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs announces that nearly 1 million people are affected and at least 24 people have died in flash floods that have hit Beledweyne and Jowhar, Somalia on May - 18.   

2020  On May - 18 in a historic move, the World Health Organization holds its annual World Health Assembly using video conferencing instead of in-person meetings.   

2021  On May - 18 the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 is held in Rotterdam, Netherlands, after the cancellation of the 2020 contest due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2021 contest is won by Italian entrants MÃ¥neskin with the song "Zitti e buoni".[100]   

2023  Final Indiana Jones film "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny" premieres at the Cannes Film Festival, starring Harrison Ford and Phoebe Waller-Bridge , directed by James Mangold and executive produced by Steven Spielberg and George Lucas on this day in history.   

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1048  Omar Khayyám, Persian mathematician, poet and philosopher (d. 1131) was born on May - 18.   

1186  Konstantin of Rostov, Prince of Novgorod (d. 1218) was born on May - 18.   

1474  On May - 18 birth of isabella d'Este, Marquise of Mantua (d. 1539)   

1551  On May - 18 birth of domenico di Pace Beccafumi, Italian Renaissance-Mannerist painter (d. 1486)   

1610  On this day in history birth of stefano della Bella, Italian printmaker (d. 1664)   

1662  George Smalridge, English bishop of Bristol (d. 1719) was born on May - 18.   

1692  Joseph Butler, Wantage Berkshire, theologian was born on this day in history.   

1711  Ruggiero G Boscovich, [Rudzer J Boskovic], Italian astronomer was born on this day in history.   

0526  John I, Pope (523-26), dies on this day in history.   

1160  Erik IX Helgi, [The Saint], King of Sweden, dies on this day in history.   

1401  Death of WÅ‚adysÅ‚aw Opolczyk (German: Ladislaus von Oppel, count palatine of Hungary 1367-1372, governor of Halych-Volhynia 1372 on this day in history.   

1410  Ruprecht, Roman catholics German king, dies on May - 18.   

1450  Death of Sejong the Great of Joseon, ruler of Korea (b. 1397) on this day in history.   

1550  On this day in history death of john, Cardinal of Lorraine, French churchman (b. 1498)   

1551  On May - 18 death of domenico di Pace Beccafumi, Italian Renaissance-Mannerist painter (d. 1486)   

1584  On May - 18 death of ikeda Motosuke, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1559)