Wikipedia:Main Page history/2018 May 18

Anne Beaumanoir,
c. 1940

• ... that Anne Beaumanoir (pictured) and her parents were recognised as Righteous Among the Nations for saving two Jewish children in France during the Second World War?
• ... that compulsive showering in hot water is a common symptom of cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome in cannabis users?
• ... that
  tracheostomy tube that was popular among surgeons in Georgian era
  Dublin?
• ... that it took two campaigns to raise the funds for
  Beats of Rage, the sequel to The FP
  ?
• ... that
  Kirov Ballet
  ?
• ... that the Sunday Observance Act 1695 banned the playing of sports on Sunday in Ireland, and parts of the act are still in force in Northern Ireland?
• ... that Microsoft published Close Combat to kickstart its wider push into the strategy video game industry?
• ... that the Welsh footballer John Toshack authored a book of poems entitled Gosh, it's Tosh?

Surabaya bombing aftermath

• Palestinian protesters in the Gaza Strip, on the day the United States moves its embassy to Jerusalem
  .
• In association football, the English Premier League concludes with Manchester City winning the title.
• A series of bombings in Surabaya, Indonesia, kills at least 25 people (President Joko Widodo surveying damage pictured).
• Netta, representing Israel, wins the Eurovision Song Contest in Lisbon, Portugal, with the song "Toy".

May 18: Flag and Universities Day in Haiti; Day of Revival, Unity, and the Poetry of Magtymguly in Turkmenistan

Vietnamese refugees transferring ships

• Northern Yuan
  .
• 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.
• 1944 – The Soviet Union forcibly deported the entire population of Crimean Tatars to the Uzbek SSR and elsewhere in the country.
• 1955 – Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians (pictured), soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First Indochina War, ended.
• unanimously voted to strip King Gyanendra
  of many of his powers.

John George Children (b. 1777) · Thomas Midgley Jr. (b. 1889) · Ian Curtis (d. 1980)