Thursday, May 18, 2028 is a Thursday. It is day 139 of 2028 (38% through the year), ISO week 20, in Q2.
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Thursday, May 18, 2028 combines practical calendar facts with a wider view of the day: 2018: Cubana de Aviación Flight 0972 crashed near Santiago de las Vegas shortly after takeoff from José Martí International Airport, killing 112 of the 113 people on board.. Use it to check the date, plan across time zones, and scan the observances and historical markers attached to May 18.
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Historical Milestones
Cubana de Aviación Flight 0972 crashed near Santiago de las Vegas shortly after takeoff from José Martí International Airport, killing 112 of the 113 people on board.
Cubana de Aviación Flight 0972 →Mark Carson, an openly gay man, was murdered in a hate crime incident in New York City, prompting a 1,500-person march against anti-LGBTQ violence.
Murder of Mark Carson →The Sri Lanka Army killed Velupillai Prabhakaran, the leader and founder of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, to bring an end to the 26-year Sri Lankan civil war.
Sri Lanka Army →The Parliament of Nepal unanimously voted to strip King Gyanendra of many of his powers.
Federal Parliament of Nepal →The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion publicly debuted at the Electronic Entertainment Expo.
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion →Ireland won the Eurovision song contest for the seventh time, the highest number of wins for any country before Sweden tied it in 2023.
Republic of Ireland →Mount St. Helens explosively erupted (pictured), killing approximately 57 people in southern Washington state, reducing hundreds of square miles to wasteland, and causing more than US$1 billion in damage.
Mount St. Helens →India conducted its first nuclear test explosion at Pokhran, the first confirmed nuclear test by a nation outside the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.
Smiling Buddha →Eli Cohen, a spy who is credited with gathering significant intelligence used by Israel during the Six-Day War, was publicly hanged in Syria.
Eli Cohen →Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First Indochina War, ende...
Operation Passage to Freedom →First Indochina War: Viet Minh forces overran a French and Laotian garrison at Muong Khoua, leaving only four survivors.
First Indochina War →The Soviet Union forcibly deported hundreds of thousands of Crimean Tatars to the Uzbek SSR and elsewhere in the country.
Deportation of the Crimean Tatars →Calculate business days and elapsed calendar time between this date and any other.
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Questions & Answers
Thursday, May 18, 2028 falls on a Thursday.
in 614 days (in 1 year, 8 months, 6 days). It is day 139 of 2028 with 227 days remaining in the year.
In Roman numerals, Thursday, May 18, 2028 is written as XVIII.V.MMXXVIII (Day.Month.Year format).
The moon phase for this date is Waning Crescent (approx. 30% illuminated). The astrological sun sign is Taurus.