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1803: Bored with nobody to fight for almost a year, Britain abandoned the Treaty of Amiens and declared war on France, again!
1804: Napoleon Bonaparte is appointed Emperor of the French. Even today, the French leader, a native of Corsica, is widely known for his successful military campaigns – and his final defeat at the Battle of Waterloo.
1848: The first German National Assembly gathers in Frankfurt. The assembly constituted the first freely elected parliament of Germany. It produced a constitution that provided the basis for today’s constitution of Germany (Grundgesetz).
1927: 45 people die in the United States’ worst school massacre. In the Bath school disaster, a disgruntled school board member set off several bombs at the Bath Consolidated School and other locations in Michigan.
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1980: Mount St. Helens erupts. The eruption killed 57 people. A large part of the previously cone-shaped volcano was replaced by a massive crater; its summit is now some 1300 feet (400 meters) lower than before the eruption.
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1998: Abacha objects to the suit filed by Chief Gani Fawehinmi challenging his adoption as the sole presidential flag bearer of the five political parties, at the Federal High Court.
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2009: The Sri Lankan Civil War ends. The 25-year conflict between the government and the separatist Tamil Tigers had claimed up to 100,000 lives. It ended with the Tigers’ defeat.
2001: The comedy Shrek—with voices provided by Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, and Cameron Diaz, among others—had its nationwide release in the United States; it went on to become the first movie to win the Academy Award for best-animated feature.
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2012: Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook, an American company offering online social networking services, held its initial public offering, which raised $16 billion.
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BIRTHS ON THIS DAY: May 18
John Paul II [Karol Jozef Wojtyla], (18 May 1920 – 2 April 2005)
Pope John Paul II was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until he died in 2005. In his youth, Wojtyła dabbled in stage acting. He graduated with excellent grades from an all-boys high school in Wadowice, Poland, in 1938, soon after which World War II broke out. He died at the age of 84.
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Moses Olaiya (18 May 1936 – 7 October 2018)
Moses Olaiya, better known by his stage name “Baba Sala”, was a Nigerian comedian, dramatist, and actor who was born on 18 May 1936, in Ilesa, Osun State, British Nigeria. “The father of modern Nigerian comedy” established the popular Baba Sala character in 1982, and found fame in movies, many released as home videos at the dawn of Nollywood, which he wrote and directed. He died at the age of 82.
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