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May 18 is the 138th day of the year (139th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 227 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

• 332 – Constantine the Great announced free distributions of food to the citizens in Constantinople.
• 1152 – Henry II of England marries Eleanor of Aquitaine.
• 1268 – The Principality of Antioch, a crusader state, falls to the Mamluk Sultan Baibars in the Battle of Antioch.
• 1302 – Bruges Matins, the nocturnal massacre of the French garrison in Bruges by members of the local Flemish militia.
• 1498 – Vasco da Gama reaches the port of Calicut, India.
• 1499 – Alonso de Ojeda sets sail from Cadiz on his voyage to what is now Venezuela.
• 1565 – The Siege of Malta begins, in which Ottoman forces attempt and fail to conquer Malta.
• 1593 – Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe.
• 1631 – In Dorchester, Massachusetts, John Winthrop takes the oath of office and becomes the first Governor of Massachusetts.
• 1652 – Rhode Island passes the first law in English-speaking North America making slavery illegal.
• 1756 – The Seven Years' War begins when Great Britain declares war on France.
• 1763 – Fire destroys a large part of Montreal, Quebec.
• 1783 – First United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown (later called Saint John), New Brunswick, Canada after leaving the United States.
• 1803 – Napoleonic Wars: The United Kingdom revokes the Treaty of Amiens and declares war on France.
• 1804 – Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of the French by the French Senate.
• 1811 – Battle of Las Piedras: The first great military triumph of the revolution of the Río de la Plata in Uruguay led by Jose Artigas.
• 1812 – John Bellingham is found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging for the assassination of British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval.
• 1843 – The Disruption in Edinburgh of the Free Church of Scotland from the Church of Scotland.
• 1848 – Opening of the first German National Assembly (Nationalversammlung) in Frankfurt, Germany.
• 1860 – Abraham Lincoln wins the Republican Party presidential nomination over William H. Seward, who later becomes the United States Secretary of State.
• 1863 – American Civil War: The Siege of Vicksburg begins.
• 1896 – The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that the "separate but equal" doctrine is constitutional.
• 1896 – Khodynka Tragedy: A mass panic on Khodynka Field in Moscow during the festivities of the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II results in the deaths of 1,389 people.
• 1900 – The United Kingdom proclaims a protectorate over Tonga.
• 1910 – The Earth passes through the tail of Comet Halley.
• 1912 – The first Indian film, Shree Pundalik by Dadasaheb Torne is released in Mumbai.
• 1917 – World War I: The Selective Service Act of 1917 is passed, giving the President of the United States the power of conscription.
• 1926 – Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears while visiting a Venice, California beach.
• 1927 – The Bath School Disaster: forty-five people are killed by bombs planted by a disgruntled school-board member in Michigan.
• 1927 – After being founded for 20 years, the Government of the Republic of China approves Tongji University to be among the first national universities of the Republic of China.
• 1933 – New Deal: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an act creating the Tennessee Valley Authority.
• 1944 – World War II: Battle of Monte Cassino – Conclusion after seven days of the fourth battle as German paratroopers evacuate Monte Cassino.
• 1944 – Deportation of Crimean Tatars by the Soviet Union government.
• 1948 – The First Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China officially convenes in Nanking.
• 1953 – Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier.
• 1955 – Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First Indochina War, ends.
• 1956 – First ascent of Lhotse 8,516 meters, by a Swiss team.
• 1958 – An F-104 Starfighter sets a world speed record of 1,404.19 mph (2,259.82 km/h).
• 1959 – Launch of the National Liberation Committee of Côte d'Ivoire in Conakry, Guinea.
• 1965 – Israeli spy Eli Cohen was hanged in Damascus, Syria.
• 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 10 is launched.
• 1974 – Nuclear test: under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so.
• 1974 – Completion of the Warsaw radio mast, the tallest construction ever built at the time. It collapsed on August 8, 1991.
• 1980 – 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens: Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington, United States, killing 57 people and causing $3 billion in damage.
• 1980 – Gwangju Massacre: students in Gwangju, South Korea begin demonstrations calling for democratic reforms.
• 1983 – In Ireland, the government launches a crackdown, with the leading Dublin pirate Radio Nova being put off the air.
• 1990 – In France, a modified TGV train achieves a new rail world speed record of 515.3 km/h (320.2 mph).
• 1991 – Northern Somalia declares independence from the rest of Somalia as the Republic of Somaliland but is not recognized by the international community.
• 1993 – EU - riots in Nørrebro, Copenhagen caused by the approval of the four Danish exceptions in the Maastricht Treaty referendum. Police opened fire against civilians for the first time since World War II and injured 11 demonstrators. In total 113 bullets are fired.
• 1995 – Shawn Nelson, 35, goes on a tank rampage in San Diego.
• 2005 – A second photo from the Hubble Space Telescope confirms that Pluto has two additional moons: Nix and Hydra.
• 2006 – The post Loktantra Andolan government passes a landmark bill curtailing the power of the monarchy and making Nepal a secular country.
• 2009 – Sri Lankan Civil War: The LTTE are defeated by the Sri Lankan government, ending almost 26 years of fighting between the two sides.
• 2012 – Facebook, Inc. began selling stock to the public and trading on the NASDAQ.

Births

• 1048 – Omar Khayyám, Persian mathematician, poet, and philosopher (d. 1131)
• 1186 – Konstantin of Rostov (d. 1218)
• 1474 – Isabella d'Este, Marquise of Mantua (d. 1539)
• 1610 – Stefano della Bella, Italian printmaker (d. 1664)
• 1616 – Johann Jakob Froberger, German composer (d. 1667)
• 1662 – George Smalridge, English bishop (d. 1719)
• 1692 – Joseph Butler, English bishop and philosopher (d. 1752)
• 1711 – Ruđer Bošković, Croatian theorist (d. 1787)
• 1777 – John George Children, English chemist, mineralogist, and zoologist (d. 1852)
• 1778 – Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry (d. 1854)
• 1785 – John Wilson, Scottish writer (d. 1854)
• 1797 – Frederick Augustus II of Saxony (d. 1854)
• 1822 – Mathew Brady, American photographer (d. 1896)
• 1850 – Oliver Heaviside, English physicist (d. 1925)
• 1851 – James Budd, Governor of California (d. 1908)
• 1852 – Gertrude Käsebier, American photographer (d. 1934)
• 1854 – Bernard Zweers, Dutch composer and music teacher (d. 1924)
• 1855 – Francis Bellamy, American author, editor, and Baptist minister (d. 1931)
• 1862 – Josephus Daniels, American publisher, editor, and United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 1948)
• 1868 – Nicholas II of Russia (d. 1918)
• 1872 – Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, English mathematician, writer, and philosopher, Nobel laureate (d. 1970)
• 1873 – Lucy Beaumont, English actress (d. 1937)
• 1876 – Hermann Müller, German politician, 12th Chancellor of Germany (d. 1931)
• 1882 – Mohammad Mosaddegh, Prime Minister of Iran (d. 1967)
• 1882 – Babe Adams, American baseball player (d. 1968)
• 1883 – Eurico Gaspar Dutra, Brazilian marshal and politician, 16th President of Brazil (d. 1974)
• 1883 – Walter Gropius, German architect, founded the Bauhaus school (d. 1969)
• 1887 – Jeanie MacPherson, American actress and screenwriter (d. 1946)
• 1889 – Thomas Midgley, Jr., American engineer and chemist (d. 1944)
• 1891 – Rudolf Carnap, German philosopher (d. 1970)
• 1892 – Ezio Pinza, Italian bass (d. 1957)
• 1895 – Augusto César Sandino, Nicaraguan revolutionary (d. 1934)
• 1897 – Frank Capra, American producer, director, and writer (d. 1991)
• 1901 – Vincent du Vigneaud, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1978)
• 1902 – Meredith Willson, American composer (d. 1984)
• 1904 – Jacob K. Javits, American politician (d. 1986)
• 1905 – Hedley Verity, English cricketer (d. 1943)
• 1907 – Carl Mydans, American photographer (d. 2004)
• 1907 – Lincoln Stedman, American actor (d. 1948)
• 1909 – Fred Perry, English tennis player (d. 1995)
• 1911 – Big Joe Turner, American singer (d. 1985)
• 1912 – Richard Brooks, American director, writer, and producer (d. 1992)
• 1912 – Perry Como, American singer and actor (d. 2001)
• 1912 – Walter Sisulu, South African activist and politician (d. 2003)
• 1913 – Jane Birdwood, Baroness Birdwood, Canadian-English politician, activist, and publisher, wife of Christopher Birdwood, 2nd Baron Birdwood (d. 2000)
• 1913 – Charles Trenet, French singer-songwriter (d. 2001)
• 1913 – Mary Howard de Liagre, American actress (d. 2009)
• 1914 – Pierre Balmain, French fashion designer (d. 1982)
• 1914 – Robert J. Wilke, American actor (d. 1989)
• 1918 – Massimo Girotti, Italian actor (d. 2003)
• 1919 – Dame Margot Fonteyn, English ballet dancer (d. 1991)
• 1920 – Pope John Paul II (d. 2005)
• 1920 – Lucia Mannucci, Italian singer and actress (Quartetto Cetra)
• 1922 – Gerda Boyesen, Norwegian psychotherapist (d. 2005)
• 1922 – Bill Macy, American actor
• 1922 – Kai Winding, Danish-American trombonist and composer (d. 1983)
• 1923 – Hugh Shearer, Jamaican politician, Prime Minister of Jamaica (d. 2004)
• 1923 – Jean-Louis Roux, French-Canadian actor and director
• 1924 – Priscilla Pointer, American actress
• 1924 – Jack Whitaker, American sportscaster
• 1926 – Dirch Passer, Danish actor (d. 1980)
• 1928 – Pernell Roberts, American actor (d. 2010)
• 1929 – Jack Sanford, American baseball player (d. 2000)
• 1930 – Warren Rudman, American politician
• 1931 – Don Martin, American cartoonist (d. 2000)
• 1931 – Robert Morse, American actor
• 1931 – Clément Vincent, Canadian politician
• 1933 – Bernadette Chirac, French politician
• 1933 – Don Whillans, English mountaineer (d. 1985)
• 1934 – Dwayne Hickman, American actor and television executive
• 1937 – Brooks Robinson, American baseball player
• 1937 – Jacques Santer, Luxembourg statesman
• 1938 – Joan Blackman, American actress
• 1939 – Giovanni Falcone, Italian magistrate and Mafia victim (d. 1992)
• 1939 – Gordon O'Connor, Canadian politician
• 1940 – Eddy Palchak, Canadian ice hockey trainer and equipment manager (d. 2011)
• 1941 – Gino Brito, Canadian wrestler
• 1941 – Lobby Loyde, Australian guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs, Purple Hearts, Wild Cherries, and Rose Tattoo) (d. 2007)
• 1941 – Miriam Margolyes, English actress
• 1942 – Nobby Stiles, English footballer
• 1943 – Jimmy Snuka, American wrestler
• 1944 – Albert Hammond, English singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (The Family Dogg)
• 1944 – W. G. Sebald, German- writer (d. 2001)
• 1946 – Bruce Gilbert, English guitarist (Wire and Dome)
• 1946 – Frank Hsieh, Taiwanese politician, Premier of Taiwan
• 1946 – Reggie Jackson, American baseball player
• 1946 – Andreas Katsulas, American actor (d. 2006)
• 1947 – John Bruton, Irish politician
• 1947 – Gail Strickland, American actress
• 1948 – Tom Udall, American politician
• 1948 – Yi Munyol, South Korean writer
• 1949 – Rick Wakeman, English musician, songwriter, and composer (Yes, Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe and Warhorse)
• 1949 – Bill Wallace, Canadian bassist (The Guess Who)
• 1950 – Thomas Gottschalk, German television host
• 1950 – Mark Mothersbaugh, American singer, musician, and composer (Devo)
• 1951 – Jim Sundberg, American baseball player
• 1952 – Diane Duane, American writer
• 1952 – George Strait, American singer, musician, producer, and actor
• 1952 – Jeana Yeager, American aviator
• 1954 – Reinhold Heil, German musician and composer (Spliff)
• 1954 – Wreckless Eric, English singer-songwriter
• 1955 – Chow Yun-fat, Hong Kong actor
• 1955 – Lena T. Hansson, Swedish actor
• 1957 – Michael Cretu, Romanian-German musician and producer (Moti Special, Enigma, and Trance Atlantic Air Waves)
• 1958 – Toyah Willcox, English singer-songwriter, musician, producer, and actress (Toyah and The Humans)
• 1959 – Jay Wells, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1960 – Brent Ashton, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1960 – Jari Kurri, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1960 – Yannick Noah, French tennis player
• 1961 – Jim Bowden, American sportscaster
• 1962 – Mike Whitmarsh, American volleyball player (d. 2009)
• 1962 – Nanne Grönvall, Swedish singer-songwriter (One More Time)
• 1962 – Sandra, German singer (Arabesque)
• 1962 – Mike Darnell, American television executive
• 1963 – Marty McSorley, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1963 – Sam Vincent, American basketball player
• 1965 – Ingo Schwichtenberg, German drummer (Helloween) (d. 1995)
• 1966 – Michael Tait, American singer-songwriter and producer (dc Talk, Tait, and Newsboys)
• 1967 – Heinz-Harald Frentzen, German race car driver
• 1967 – Rob Base, American rapper (Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock)
• 1967 – Nancy Juvonen, American film producer, co-founded Flower Films
• 1967 – Nina Björk, Swedish activist and author
• 1969 – Martika, Cuban-American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1970 – Tina Fey, American writer and actress
• 1970 – Tim Horan, Australian rugby player
• 1970 – Billy Howerdel, American musician, songwriter, and producer (A Perfect Circle and Ashes Divide)
• 1971 – Brad Friedel, American soccer player
• 1971 – Desiree Horton, American helicopter pilot and reporter
• 1971 – Nobuteru Taniguchi, Japanese race car driver
• 1972 – Turner Stevenson, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1973 – Brian Heffron, American wrestler and actor
• 1973 – Donyell Marshall, American basketball player
• 1973 – Chantal Kreviazuk, Canadian singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1974 – Nelson Figueroa, American baseball player
• 1975 – John Higgins, Scottish snooker player
• 1975 – Jack Johnson, American singer-songwriter and musician
• 1976 – Ron Mercer, American basketball player
• 1976 – Oleg Tverdovsky, Ukrainian ice hockey player
• 1976 – Marko Tomasović, Croatian composer, songwriter, and pianist
• 1977 – Lee Hendrie, English footballer
• 1977 – Danny Mills, English footballer
• 1978 – Ricardo Carvalho, Portuguese footballer
• 1978 – Jessica Cutler, American author
• 1978 – Marcus Giles, American baseball player
• 1978 – Chad Donella, Canadian actor
• 1979 – Jens Bergensten, Swedish video game designer
• 1979 – Anna Chatziathanassiou, Greek figure skater
• 1979 – Mariusz Lewandowski, Polish footballer
• 1979 – Michal Martikán, Slovak slalom canoeist
• 1979 – David Nail, American singer-songwriter and musician
• 1979 – Milivoje Novakovič, Slovenian footballer
• 1979 – Julián Speroni, Argentine footballer
• 1980 – Jeff Roehl, American football player
• 1980 – Matt Long, American actor
• 1980 – Diego Pérez, Uruguayan footballer
• 1980 – Ali Zafar, Pakistani singer-songwriter, musician, producer, actor, and director
• 1980 – Aileen Campbell, Scottish politician
• 1980 – Reggie Evans, American basketball player
• 1980 – Felicia Pearson, American actress, singer, and author
• 1981 – Mahamadou Diarra, Malian footballer
• 1982 – Jason Brown, English footballer
• 1982 – Marie-Ève Pelletier, Canadian tennis player
• 1982 – Eric West, American actor and former fashion model
• 1983 – Gary O'Neil, English footballer
• 1983 – Luis Terrero, Dominican baseball player
• 1983 – Vince Young, American football player
• 1984 – Joakim Soria, Mexican baseball player
• 1984 – Niki Terpstra, Dutch cyclist
• 1985 – Dalma Kovács, Romanian singer and actress
• 1985 – Francesca Battistelli, American singer-songwriter and musician
• 1986 – Ahmed Hamada, Egyptian race car driver
• 1986 – Ryan Lamb, English rugby player
• 1986 – Katja Shchekina, Russian model
• 1987 – Luisana Lopilato, Argentine actress and model
• 1988 – Taeyang, South Korean singer, dancer, and model (Big Bang)
• 1988 – Ryan Cooley, Canadian actor
• 1988 – Kōji Seto, Japanese actor and singer
• 1990 – Gayoon, South Korean singer and dancer (4minute)
• 1990 – Luke Kleintank, American actor
• 1992 – Spencer Breslin, American actor
• 1993 – Stuart Percy, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1993 – Jessica Watson, Australian sailor
• 1999 – Laura Omloop, Belgian singer-songwriter

Deaths

• 1401 – Władysław II of Opole (b. 1332)
• 1550 – Jean, Cardinal of Lorraine, French cardinal (b. 1498)
• 1551 – Domenico di Pace Beccafumi, Italian painter (b. 1486)
• 1584 – Ikeda Motosuke, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1559)
• 1675 – Stanisław Lubieniecki, Polish theologist (b. 1623)
• 1675 – Jacques Marquette, French missionary and explorer (b. 1637)
• 1692 – Elias Ashmole, English antiquarian (b. 1617)
• 1733 – Georg Böhm, German organist (b. 1761)
• 1780 – Charles Hardy, English navy officer and governor (b. 1714)
• 1781 – Túpac Amaru II, Peruvian Indian revolutionary (b. 1742)
• 1795 – Robert Rogers, French soldier (b. 1731)
• 1799 – Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, French playwright (b. 1732)
• 1800 – Alexander Suvorov, Russian general (b. 1729)
• 1807 – John Douglas, Scottish bishop (b. 1721)
• 1808 – Elijah Craig, American minister, inventor, and educator, invented Bourbon whiskey (b. 1738/1743)
• 1829 – Maria Josepha of Saxony (b. 1803)
• 1844 – Richard McCarty, American politician (b. 1780)
• 1889 – Isabella Glyn, Scottish actress (b. 1823)
• 1900 – Jean Gaspard Felix Ravaisson-Mollien, French philosopher (b. 1813)
• 1908 – Louis-Napoléon Casault, French-Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1823)
• 1909 – George Meredith, English novelist and poet (b. 1828)
• 1909 – Isaac Albéniz, Spanish pianist and composer (b. 1860)
• 1910 – Pauline Viardot, French soprano and composer (b. 1821)
• 1910 – Eliza Orzeszkowa, Polish novelist (b. 1841)
• 1911 – Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer (b. 1860)
• 1922 – Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1845)
• 1927 – Andrew Kehoe, American educator and murderer, perpetrator of the Bath School Disaster (b. 1872)
• 1941 – Werner Sombart, German economist and sociologist (b. 1863)
• 1943 – Ōnishiki Daigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 28th Yokozuna (b. 1883)
• 1947 – Hal Chase, American baseball player (b. 1883)
• 1955 – Mary McLeod Bethune, American educator and activist (b. 1875)
• 1956 – Maurice Tate, English cricketer (b. 1895)
• 1958 – Jacob Fichman, Israeli poet and essayist (b. 1881)
• 1963 – Ernie Davis, American football player (b. 1939)
• 1967 – Andy Clyde, American actor (b. 1892)
• 1971 – Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh, Russian mathematician (b. 1908)
• 1973 – Jeannette Rankin, American politician, 1st woman in the United States Congress (b. 1880)
• 1975 – Leroy Anderson, American composer (b. 1908)
• 1980 – Ian Curtis, English singer-songwriter and musician (Joy Division) (b. 1956)
• 1980 – Victims of Mount St. Helens eruption:
  • Harry Randall Truman, American owner and caretaker of Mount St. Helens Lodge (b. 1896)
  • David A. Johnston, American volcanologist (b. 1949)
  • Reid Blackburn, American photojournalist (b. 1952)
• 1981 – Arthur O'Connell, American actor (b. 1908)
• 1981 – William Saroyan, American author (b. 1908)
• 1988 – Daws Butler, American voice actor (b. 1916)
• 1989 – Dorothy Ruth, American horse breeder, daughter of Babe Ruth (b. 1921)
• 1990 – Jill Ireland, English actress (b. 1936)
• 1992 – Skip Stephenson, American actor and comedian (b. 1940)
• 1992 – Marshall Thompson, American actor (b. 1925)
• 1995 – Elisha Cook, Jr., American actor (b. 1903)
• 1995 – Alexander Godunov, Russian ballet dancer and actor (b. 1949)
• 1995 – Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress (b. 1933)
• 1995 – Brinsley Le Poer Trench, 8th Earl of Clancarty, English ufologist and nobleman (b. 1911)
• 1997 – Bridgette Andersen, American actress (b. 1975)
• 1999 – Augustus Pablo, Jamaican singer, musician, and producer (b. 1954)
• 1999 – Betty Robinson, American runner (b. 1911)
• 2000 – Stephen M. Wolownik, Russian composer and arranger (b. 1946)
• 2000 – Yousuf Ludhianvi, Indian-Muslim scholar (b. 1932)
• 2002 – Davey Boy Smith, English wrestler (b. 1962)
• 2003 – Anna Santisteban, Puerto Rican businesswoman (b. 1914)
• 2003 – Barb Tarbox, Canadian activist (b. 1961)
• 2004 – Elvin Jones, American drummer and bandleader (b. 1927)
• 2004 – Vladislav Terzyul, Ukrainian mountaineer (b. 1953)
• 2004 – Serge Turgeon, Canadian actor and union leader (b. 1946)
• 2006 – Andrew Martinez, American activist (b. 1972)
• 2007 – Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist (b. 1932)
• 2007 – Yoyoy Villame, Filipino singer-songwriter, composer, and actor (b. 1932)
• 2008 – Joseph Pevney, American director (b. 1911)
• 2009 – Dolla, American rapper and model (b. 1987)
• 2009 – Wayne Allwine, American voice actor (b.1947)
• 2009 – Velupillai Prabhakaran, Sri Lankan founder and leader of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (b. 1954)
• 2012 – Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, German singer and conductor (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Jai Gurudev, Indian Religious leader (b. 1895)
• 2012 – Peter Jones, English-Australian drummer (Crowded House and Deadstar) (b. 1967)
• 2012 – Paul O'Sullivan, Canadian actor and educator (b. 1964)
• 2012 – Alan Oakley, English bicycle designer (b. 1927)

Holidays and observances

• Battle of Las Piedras Day (Uruguay)
• Christian Feast Day:
  • Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury
  • Eric IX of Sweden
  • Felix of Cantalice
  • Pope John I
  • Venantius of Camerino
  • May 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Flag and Universities Day (Haiti)
• Independence Day (Somaliland (unrecognized))
• International Museum Day (International)
• Revival, Unity, and Poetry of Magtymguly Day (Turkmenistan)
• World AIDS Vaccine Day (International)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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