A Brief History On May 18, 1804, Corsican born army general and First Consul of France, Napoleon Bonaparte, was named as Emperor of the French by the French senate, effectively ending the Republic and creating a French Empire. Digging Deeper Famous as a person that valued pomp and appearances, Napoleon put the Crown of Imperial France on his own head at his coronation in December of 1804 at the Cathedral of Notre-Dame. The great man’s reign would last 10 years until he was deposed and sent to Elba in exile, although he regained his role as Emperor in March of…
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A Brief History On May 18, 1944, Soviet leader Josef Stalin ordered the deportation of the Tatar population of the Crimea to far away Uzbekistan. Stalin accused the Tatars of collaborating with the German army that had invaded Ukraine and the USSR, and he was ruthless with his “relocation,” moving women and children but also communist party members and members of the Soviet armed forces. Digging Deeper Like other ethnic groups in Ukraine, the Tatars had come from somewhere else originally, in this case a Turkic people that had settled in the peninsula from the 13th to the 17th centuries,…
A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on May 18th. For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On May 18, 1096, Christians in Europe heeded the call of Pope Urban II and joined up with the throngs following local noblemen in a Crusade to regain the Holy Land of Jerusalem from the Muslims that occupied what is now Israel and the Levant, but on this day the Crusading zeal went in a horribly different direction. On May 18, 1804,…
A Brief History On May 18, 1896, the Supreme Court of the US ruled that “separate but equal” was a legal doctrine for segregating Caucasian Americans from Americans of sub-Saharan African descent, especially regarding school children. The case known as Plessy v. Ferguson is frequently referred to as the most egregious error in judgement ever made by the Supreme Court. Oddly enough, the case has never been overturned, except regarding the classroom. Digging Deeper Some other cases that have attracted the ire of Supreme Court critics include Dred Scott v. Sandford of 1857 claiming that American citizenship did not extend…
A Brief History On Tuesday, May 18, 2021, a limited number of you have a chance at watching a virtual screening of Pink: All I Know So Far at 7:00PM. The film presents a behind-the-scenes look at P!NK as she balances family and life on the road, leading up to her first Wembley Stadium performance in 2019’s “Beautiful Trauma” world tour. Digging Deeper To reserve a spot for the online screening, you must click on the link below which takes you right to the redeem pass page: http://amazonscreenings.com/HISTORYPINK You then log in or sign up which takes a minute if…