1904<\/strong> – Brigand Raizuli kidnapped American Ion H. Perdicaris in Morocco.<\/p>\n 1917<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S. Congress passed the Selective Service Act, which called up soldiers to fight in World War I.<\/p>\n 1926<\/strong> – Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson vanished while visiting a beach in Venice,\u00a0CA. She reappeared a month later with the claim that she had been kidnapped.<\/p>\n 1931<\/strong> – Japanese pilot Seiji Yoshihara crashed his plane in the Pacific Ocean while trying to be the first to cross the ocean nonstop. He was picked up seven hours later by a passing ship.<\/p>\n 1933<\/strong> – The\u00a0Tennessee\u00a0Valley Authority was created.<\/p>\n 1934<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Congress approved an act, known as the “Lindberg Act,” that called for the death penalty in interstate kidnapping cases.<\/p>\n 1942<\/strong> – New York ended night baseball games for the duration of World War II.<\/p>\n 1944<\/strong> – Monte Cassino, Europe’s oldest Monastic house, was finally captured by the Allies in Italy.<\/p>\n 1949<\/strong> – Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America was incorporated<\/p>\n 1951<\/strong> – The United Nations moved its headquarters to New York City.<\/p>\n 1953<\/strong> – The first woman to fly faster than the speed of sound, Jacqueline Cochran, piloted an F-86 Sabrejet over\u00a0California\u00a0at an average speed of 652.337 miles-per-hour.<\/p>\n 1974<\/strong> – India became the sixth nation to explode an atomic bomb.<\/p>\n 1980<\/strong> – Mt. Saint Helens erupted in\u00a0Washington\u00a0state. 57 people were killed and 3 billion in damage was done.<\/p>\n 1983<\/strong> – The U.S. Senate revised immigration laws and gave millions of illegal aliens legal status under an amnesty program.<\/p>\n 1994<\/strong> – Israel’s three decades of occupation in the Gaza Strip ended as Israeli troops completed their withdrawal and Palestinian authorities took over.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0federal government and 20 states filed a sweeping antitrust case against Microsoft Corp., saying the computer software company had a “choke hold” on competitors which denied consumer choices by controlling 90% of the software market.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S.\u00a0federal officials arrested more than 130 people and seized $35 million. This was the end to an investigation of money laundering being done by a dozen Mexican banks and two drug-smuggling cartels.<\/p>\n 2012<\/strong> – Facebook Inc. held its initial public offering and began trading on the NASDAQ. The company was valued at $104 billion making it the largest valuation to date for a newly listed public company.<\/p>\n 2014<\/strong> – Russian President Putin signed a bill to absorb Crimea into the Russian Federation.<\/p>\n 2015<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 At least 78 people die in a\u00a0landslide\u00a0caused by heavy rains in the Colombian town of\u00a0Salgar.<\/p>\n 2018<\/strong> \u2013 A\u00a0school shooting\u00a0at Santa Fe High School in Texas kills 10 people.<\/p>\n 2018<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Cubana de Aviaci\u00f3n Flight 972 crashes\u00a0in Havana’s\u00a0Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ed International Airport.<\/p>\n History of 18 May 1904 – Brigand Raizuli kidnapped American Ion H. 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