Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 18
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This is a list of selected May 18 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors.May 18: Trinity Sunday (Western Christianity, 2008); International Museum Day
- 1268 – Baibars and his Mamluk forces captured Antioch, capital of the crusader state, the Principality of Antioch.
- 1848 – During the aftermath of the March Revolution in the German Confederation, the Frankfurt Parliament opened in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt am Main.
- 1896 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the landmark case Plessy v. Ferguson, upholding the legality of racial segregation in public transportation under the "Separate but equal" doctrine.
- 1958 – The F-104 Starfighter, a supersonic interceptor aircraft, set a world speed record of 1,404.19 miles per hour (2,259.82 km/h).
- 1980 – The stratovolcano Mount St. Helens erupted (pictured), killing 57 people in southern Washington State, reducing hundreds of square miles to wasteland, and causing over a billion U.S. dollars in damage.
