Talk:May 18

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May 18: Haitian Flag Day in Haiti (1803); Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Crimean Tatar Genocide in Ukraine The Bath School after the explosions 1302 – Armed insurrectionists massacred the occupying French garrison in Bruges, Flanders, killing approximately 2,000 people. 1695 – An earthquake measuring Ms7.8 struck Shanxi Province in northern China, resulting in at least 52,600 deaths. 1927 – Disgruntled school board treasurer Andrew Kehoe set off explosives with timers and a rifle (aftermath pictured), causing the Bath School disaster in the Bath Consolidated School in Michigan, killing 44 people in the deadliest mass murder in a school in United States history. 2009 – The Sri Lanka Army killed Velupillai Prabhakaran, the leader and founder of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, to bring an end to the 26-year Sri Lankan Civil War. Thomas Midgley Jr. (b. 1889) Ester Boserup (b. 1910) Jean-François Théodore (d. 2015) More anniversaries: May 17 May 18 May 19

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World AIDS Vaccine day

a worthwhile cause but not a government thing. suggest deletion--Richardson mcphillips (talk) 13:15, 18 May 2018 (UTC)

advocate awareness day. agreed. any discussion? --2607:FEA8:D5DF:1AF0:DD5D:CE11:7C78:B703 (talk) 11:14, 18 May 2021 (UTC)