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May 18<\/p>\n
1642<\/strong>– The city of Montreal was founded by the French.<\/p>\n 1804<\/strong>– Napoleon Bonaparte was proclaimed Emperor of France by the French Senate.<\/p>\n 1896<\/strong>– The Supreme Court affirmed racial segregation in Plessy v. Ferguson as “separate but equal.”<\/p>\n 1920<\/strong>– Pope John Paul II was born near Krakow, Poland.<\/p>\n 1953<\/strong>– Jacqueline Cochran became the first woman to fly faster than the speed of sound.<\/p>\n 1974<\/strong>– India became the 6th country to become a nuclear power.<\/p>\n 1980<\/strong>– Mount St. Helens, in Washington State, erupted after being dormant for 123 years.<\/p>\n 1994<\/strong>– Israeli troops withdrew from the Gaza strip after three decades of occupation and Palestinians took over.<\/p>\n 2000<\/strong>– A bill was finally passed that removed the Confederate flag from the South Carolina statehouse.<\/p>\n 2003<\/strong>– President Megawati Sukarnoputri of Indonesia declared martial law and sent 30,000 troops into Aceh.<\/p>\n 2004<\/strong>– Sonia Gandhi stunned her party, the Indian National Congress, by refusing to accept the prime ministership of India.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Birthdays<\/p>\n 1048<\/strong>– Omar Khayyam, poet (Rubaiyat) and mathematician<\/p>\n 1872<\/strong>– Bertrand Russell, philosopher<\/p>\n 1883<\/strong>– Walter Gropius, architect<\/p>\n 1892<\/strong>– Ezio Pinza, singer<\/p>\n 1919<\/strong>– Margot Fonteyn, ballerina<\/p>\n 1920<\/strong>– Pope John Paul II<\/p>\n 1946<\/strong>– Reggie Jackson, baseball Hall of Famer<\/p>\n 1955<\/strong>– Chow Yun-Fat, actor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" TMN STAFF May 18 1642– The city of Montreal was founded by the French. 1804– Napoleon Bonaparte was proclaimed Emperor of France by the French… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6132],"tags":[106,6131],"class_list":["post-26944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today","tag-fort-hays-state-university","tag-today-in-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26944"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26946,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26944\/revisions\/26946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}