May 18 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for May 18
In the headlines today:

2003	Les Miserables ends a 16-year Broadway run after 6,680 performances. (Only the musical Cats has had a longer run.)
1980	Mount St. Helens erupts in southwest Washington State, killing 60 people and causing over $3 billion in damages.
1966	The Beatles finish recording the instrumental parts for Got To Get You Into My Life, at EMI Studios in London.
1947	Seabiscuit, the world-famous thoroughbred race horse, dies at the age of 14. Uncle Woody sez: Go to any carnival today, and there on the midway at the horserace game, you'll find that 'Seabiscuit' lives on.
1933	The Tennessee Valley Authority is created.
1914	The first steam-powered cargo vessel passes through the newly-completed Panama Canal.
1860	Abraham Lincoln is nominated by the Republican party as their candidate for the US presidential elections.
1804	Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed emperor by the French Senate.
1798	Benjamin Stoddert is appointed as the first US Secretary of the Navy.
1642	The Canadian City of Montreal is founded.
1588	The Spanish Armada sets sail for England.
1152	King Henry II of England marries Eleanor of Aquitane.