📰 TODAY IN HISTORY

📆 - May 18

📜 Events:

1096 — First Crusade: About 800 Jews are massacred in Worms, Holy Roman Empire (present-day Germany).

1291 — Fall of Acre, end of the Crusaders' presence in the Holy Land.

1804 — Napoleon I is proclaimed Emperor of the French by the French Senate.

1944 — World War II: Battle of Monte Cassino: after seven days of the fourth battle, German paratroopers evacuate Monte Cassino.

1969 — Apollo Program: launch of Apollo 10.

1974 — Nuclear weapon test: under the Smiling Buddha project, India successfully detonates its first nuclear bomb, becoming the sixth nation to do so.

1980 — Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington state, United States, killing 57 people.

🌟 Births:

1920 — Pope John Paul II, Polish pope of the Catholic Church (d. 2005).

1872 — Bertrand Russell, British philosopher and mathematician (d. 1970).

1883 — Eurico Gaspar Dutra, Brazilian military and politician, 16th President of Brazil (d. 1974).

1897 — Frank Capra, American filmmaker (d. 1991).

1946 — Mila Moreira, Brazilian actress and model (d. 2021).

1970 — Tina Fey, American screenwriter, comedian, and actress.

1988 — Taeyang, South Korean singer, model, and dancer.

🕊 Deaths:

1781 — Túpac Amaru II, Peruvian cacique (b. 1738).

1911 — Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer (b. 1860).

1980 — Ian Curtis, British musician (b. 1956).

1995 — Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress (b. 1933).

1999 — Dias Gomes, Brazilian telenovela writer (b. 1922).

2017 — Jacque Fresco, American social engineer, writer, professor, and futurologist (b. 1916).

2017 — Chris Cornell, American singer and songwriter (b. 1964).

📍 Holidays and Recurring Events

International:

International Museum Day

Brazil:

National Day to Combat Child and Adolescent Abuse and Exploitation

Anniversaries of the municipalities of Caruaru and Bezerros (Pernambuco), and Coruripe (Alagoas), and Guaíra (São Paulo)

National Day of the Anti-Manicomial Fight
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