On This Very Day
May 18th
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- 1980
Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington state, causing history's largest landslide, killing 57 people, and resulting in $1 billion in damages View Post →
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- 324
Roman Emperor Constantine the Great initiates free daily bread distribution in Constantinople View Post →
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- 1974
India conducts its first nuclear test, Smiling Buddha, becoming the sixth nuclear-armed nation
- 1918
A TNT explosion at a chemical factory in Oakdale, Pennsylvania kills 200 people
- 2018
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle marry at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, England
- 1852
Massachusetts enacts a law requiring all school-age children to attend school
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