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Events

• 872 (1154 years ago) Louis II of Italy is crowned for the second time as Holy Roman Emperor at Rome, at the age of 47. His first coronation was 28 years earlier, in 844, during the reign of his father Lothair I.
• 1499 (527 years ago) Alonso de Ojeda sets sail from Cádiz on his voyage to what is now Venezuela.
• 1565 (461 years ago) The Great Siege of Malta begins, in which Ottoman forces attempt and fail to conquer Malta.
• 1811 (215 years ago) Battle of Las Piedras: The first great military triumph of the revolution of the Río de la Plata in Uruguay led by José Artigas.
• 1860 (166 years ago) United States presidential election: Abraham Lincoln wins the Republican Party presidential nomination over William H. Seward, who later becomes the United States Secretary of State.
• 1944 (82 years ago) World War II: Battle of Monte Cassino: Conclusion after seven days of the fourth battle as German paratroopers evacuate Monte Cassino.
• 1991 (35 years ago) Northern Somalia declares independence from the rest of Somalia as the Republic of Somaliland.
• 2006 (20 years ago) The post Loktantra Andolan government passes a landmark bill curtailing the power of the monarchy and making Nepal a secular country.

Births

• 1048 (978 years ago) Omar Khayyám, Persian mathematician, astronomer, and poet (died 1131)
• 1868 (158 years ago) Nicholas II of Russia,
• 1872 (154 years ago) Bertrand Russell, British mathematician, historian, and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1970)
• 1883 (143 years ago) Walter Gropius, German-American architect, designed the John F. Kennedy Federal Building (died 1969)
• 1891 (135 years ago) Rudolf Carnap, German-American philosopher and academic (died 1970)
• 1897 (129 years ago) Frank Capra, Italian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1991)
• 1920 (106 years ago) Pope John Paul II,
• 1970 (56 years ago) Tina Fey, American actress, producer, and screenwriter

Deaths

• 526 (1500 years ago) Pope John I,
• 1799 (227 years ago) Pierre Beaumarchais, French playwright and publisher (born 1732)
• 1800 (226 years ago) Alexander Suvorov, Russian general (born 1729)
• 1911 (115 years ago) Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer and conductor (born 1860)
• 1922 (104 years ago) Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician and parasitologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1845)
• 1981 (45 years ago) William Saroyan, American novelist, playwright, and short story writer (born 1908)
• 2007 (19 years ago) Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1932)
• 2017 (9 years ago) Chris Cornell, American singer (born 1964)

All 388 events, births and deaths of May 18