After being founded for 20 years, the Nationalist government approves Tongji University to be among the its first national universities. Date: May 18, 1927 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 18 📅 Events on this day in 1927 📅 On This Day (Today)
The Bath School disaster: Forty-five people, including many children, are killed by bombs planted by a disgruntled school-board member in Bath Township, Michigan. Date: May 18, 1927 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 18 📅 Events on this day in 1927 📅 On This Day (Today)
New Deal: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an act creating the Tennessee Valley Authority. Date: May 18, 1933 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 18 📅 Events on this day in 1933 📅 On This Day (Today)
Deportation of Crimean Tatars by the Soviet Union. Date: May 18, 1944 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 18 📅 Events on this day in 1944 📅 On This Day (Today)
World War II: Battle of Monte Cassino: Conclusion after seven days of the fourth battle as German paratroopers evacuate Monte Cassino. Date: May 18, 1944 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 18 📅 Events on this day in 1944 📅 On This Day (Today)
The First Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China officially convenes in Nanking. Date: May 18, 1948 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 18 📅 Events on this day in 1948 📅 On This Day (Today)
Jacqueline Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier. Date: May 18, 1953 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 18 📅 Events on this day in 1953 📅 On This Day (Today)
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. Date: May 18, 1955 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 18 📅 Events on this day in…
The French government and representatives of the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic reach a settlement to end the Algerian war in the Évian Accords. Date: May 18, 1962 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 18 📅 Events on this day in 1962 📅 On This Day (Today)
Israeli spy Eli Cohen is hanged in Damascus, Syria. Date: May 18, 1965 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 18 📅 Events on this day in 1965 📅 On This Day (Today)