Friday 18 May 2012

What happened in history on May 18th (on this Day)

1642 - Montreal, Canada, was founded.

1798 - The first Secretary of the U.S. Navy was appointed. He was Benjamin Stoddert.

1802 - Great Britain declared war on Napoleon's France

1804 - Napoleon Bonaparte was proclaimed emperor by the French Senate

1951 - The United Nations moved its headquarters to New York City.

1953 - The first woman to fly faster than the speed of sound, Jacqueline Cochran, piloted an F-86 Sabrejet over California at an average speed of 652.337 miles-per-hour.

1974 - India became the sixth nation to explode an atomic bomb.

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