May 18th in History
May 18th
1642 Montreal was founded by Paul de Chomedey, sieur (lord) de Maisonneuve.
1756The Seven Years' War began when Britain declared war on France.
1803Bored with nobody to fight for almost a year, Britain abandoned the Treaty of Amiens and declared war on France, again!
1812John Bellingham was found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging for the assassination of British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval seven days earlier. To date, Perceval is the only British Prime Minister to have been assassinated
.1830Briton Edwin Budding signed an agreement for his invention, the lawn mower, to go into mass production. His first customer was Regent's Park Zoo in London.
1980 Following an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 on the Richter scale, Mount St. Helens in Washington state erupted in one of the greatest volcanic explosions ever recorded in North America.
1963 Roy Orbison begins a UK tour in Slough, England, with The Beatles , whose song "From me to You" is #1 at the time
1966Sixteen-year-old Bruce Springsteen records for the first time when his band, The Castiles, cut two songs ("Baby I" and "That's What You Get") at a studio in the Brick Mall Shopping Centre in New Jersey. Springsteen wrote both songs, which later emerge on bootlegs, with his bandmate, George Theiss.
1642 Montreal was founded by Paul de Chomedey, sieur (lord) de Maisonneuve.
1756The Seven Years' War began when Britain declared war on France.
1803Bored with nobody to fight for almost a year, Britain abandoned the Treaty of Amiens and declared war on France, again!
1812John Bellingham was found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging for the assassination of British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval seven days earlier. To date, Perceval is the only British Prime Minister to have been assassinated
.1830Briton Edwin Budding signed an agreement for his invention, the lawn mower, to go into mass production. His first customer was Regent's Park Zoo in London.
1980 Following an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 on the Richter scale, Mount St. Helens in Washington state erupted in one of the greatest volcanic explosions ever recorded in North America.
1963 Roy Orbison begins a UK tour in Slough, England, with The Beatles , whose song "From me to You" is #1 at the time
1966Sixteen-year-old Bruce Springsteen records for the first time when his band, The Castiles, cut two songs ("Baby I" and "That's What You Get") at a studio in the Brick Mall Shopping Centre in New Jersey. Springsteen wrote both songs, which later emerge on bootlegs, with his bandmate, George Theiss.
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