- 1804 - Napoleon Bonaparte was proclaimed Emperor of France by the French Senate
- 1896 - U.S. Supreme Court affirmed racial segregation in Plessy v. Ferguson as 'separate but equal'
- 1980 - Mount St. Helens, in WA, erupted after 123 years of being dormant
- 1994 - Israeli troops withdrew from the Gaza strip after three decades of occupation and Palestinians took over
- 2000 - A bill passed to removed the Confederate flag from the South Carolina statehouse
- 2004 - Sonia Gandhi stunned her party, the Indian National Congress, by refusing to accept the prime ministership of India
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May 18th
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