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Today in History: May 18
0526 St. John I ends his reign as Catholic Pope.

1643 Queen Anne, the widow of Louis XIII, is granted sole and absolute power as regent by the Paris parliament, overriding the late king's will.

1652 A law is passed in Rhode Island banning slavery in the colonies but it causes little stir and seems unlikely to be enforced.

1802 Britain declares war on France.

1804 Napoleon Bonaparte becomes the Emperor of France.

1917 The U.S. Congress passes the Selective Service act, calling up soldiers to fight World War I.

1942 New York ends night baseball games for the rest of World War II.

1951 The United Nations moves its headquarters to New York city.

1974 India becomes the sixth nation to explode an atomic bomb.

1980 After rumbling for two months, Mount Saint Helens, in Washington, erupts 3 times in 24 hours.

Born on May 18
1836 Wilhelm Steinitz, chess champion.

1868 Nicholas II, the last Russian czar.

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I’m from Alabama and I don’t appreciate all the jokes Reddit makes about my home state. I told my dad, my uncle, and my grandpa about it.

When he found out he was madder than hell.