On this day …
May 18, 2017
- In 1631, John Winthrop, in Dorchester, took the oath of office as the first governor of Massachusetts.
- In 1804, Napoleon Bonaparte was declared emperor of France.
- In 1860, Abraham Lincoln won the Republican Party presidential nomination.
- In 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Plessy v. Ferguson, ruled that the doctrine of “separate but equal” was constitutional.
- In 1912, the first Indian film, Shree Pundalik, was released in Mumbai.
- In 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted in Washington, killing 57 and causing $3 billion in damage.
- In 2005, a photo from the Hubble Space Telescope confirmed that Pluto has two additional moons, Nix and Hydra.
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