Today is Tuesday, May 18, the 138th day of 2010. There are 227 days left in the year.
1804 _ Napoleon Bonaparte proclaimed Emperor of France
1830 _ Edwin Budding of England signs an agreement for manufacture of his invention, the lawn mower _ Saturdays are destroyed forever
1860 _ Republican Party nominates Abraham Lincoln for president
1933 _ Tennessee Valley Act (TVA) Act signed by FDR, to build dams
1934 _ Academy Award first called Oscar in print (Sidney Skolsky)
1951 _ U.N. moves headquarters to NYC
1951 _ U.S. General Collins predicts use of atom bomb in Korea
1954 _ European Convention on Human Rights goes into effect
1980 _ China People's Republic launch first intercontinental rocket
1982 _ Unification Church founder Reverend Moon Sun-myung convicted of tax evasion