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01
An American climbs Everest
02
Lou Gehrig's streak of 2130 consecutive games ends.
03
First Man to Reach the North Pole
04
Julia Tyler, First Lady of the United States
05
Cinco de Mayo
06
The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public.
07
Johannes Brahms, German composer
08
The Soviet Union announces boycott of 1984 Summer Olympics.
09
Harriet Lane, First Lady to her uncle, President James Buchanan
10
American Revolutionary War: Fort Ticonderoga captured.
11
Worst Dust Bowl storm
12
General MacArthur delivers his famous 'Duty, Honor, Country' speech
13
Great Comet of 1861 discovered in Australia.
14
Four-year-old Louis XIV becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Louis XIII.
15
Ellen Louise Axson Wilson, First Lady
16
Frederick Hopkins, English biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
17
Watergate Hearings begin in the Senate and are televised.
18
Grauman's Chinese Theater
19
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, First Lady
20
Dolley Madison, First Lady of the United States
21
Charles Lindbergh touchs down in Paris
22
Martha Washington, First Lady
23
Dedication ceremony for the New York Public Library.
24
Gabriel Fahrenheit, German physicist and engineer
25
The National Forensics League is founded.
26
Ida McKinley, First Lady of the United States
27
Wild Bill Hickok, American gunfighter
28
The Golden Gate Bridge is officially opened
29
Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring premiered in Paris.
30
Soldiers are buried at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery.
31
Walt Whitman, American poet

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Some Historical Events
That Occurred on
May 18th

Grauman's Chinese Theater (1927)
The Selective Service Act passes the U.S. Congress giving the President the power of conscription. (1917)
Wyatt Earp starts work in Dodge City, Kansas under Marshal Larry Deger. (1876)
An F-104 Starfighter sets a world speed record of 1,404.19 mph (1958)
American Civil War: The Siege of Vicksburg begins, ending on July 4. (1863)
The post Loktantra Andolan government passes a landmark bill curtailing the power of the monarchy and making Nepal a secular country. (2006)




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