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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_18" title="May 18">May 18</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_Flag_Day" title="Haitian Flag Day">Haitian Flag Day</a></b> in Haiti (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1803" title="1803">1803</a>); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_the_Crimean_Tatars" title="Deportation of the Crimean Tatars">Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Crimean Tatar Genocide</a></b> in Ukraine
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1302" title="1302">1302</a> – Armed insurrectionists <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matins_of_Bruges" title="Matins of Bruges">massacred the occupying French garrison</a></b> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruges" title="Bruges">Bruges</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_of_Flanders" title="County of Flanders">Flanders</a>, killing approximately 2,000 people.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1695" title="1695">1695</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1695_Linfen_earthquake" title="1695 Linfen earthquake">An earthquake</a></b> measuring <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seismic_magnitude_scales#Ms" title="Seismic magnitude scales"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1038841319">.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}</style><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip" title="Surface-wave mag.">M<sub>s</sub></span></a>7.8 struck <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanxi" title="Shanxi">Shanxi Province</a> in northern China, resulting in at least 52,600 deaths.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1927" title="1927">1927</a> – Disgruntled <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board_of_education" title="Board of education">school board</a> treasurer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Kehoe" title="Andrew Kehoe">Andrew Kehoe</a> set off explosives with timers and a rifle, causing the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster" title="Bath School disaster">Bath School disaster</a></b> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_Charter_Township,_Michigan" title="Bath Charter Township, Michigan">Bath</a> Consolidated School in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan" title="Michigan">Michigan</a>, killing 44 people in the deadliest <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_murder" title="Mass murder">mass murder</a> in a school in United States history.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009" title="2009">2009</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Army" title="Sri Lanka Army">Sri Lanka Army</a> killed <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velupillai_Prabhakaran" title="Velupillai Prabhakaran">Velupillai Prabhakaran</a></b>, the leader and founder of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_Tigers_of_Tamil_Eelam" title="Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam">Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam</a>, to bring an end to the 26-year <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lankan_Civil_War" title="Sri Lankan Civil War">Sri Lankan Civil War</a>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr." title="Thomas Midgley Jr.">Thomas Midgley Jr.</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1889); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ester_Boserup" title="Ester Boserup">Ester Boserup</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1910); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Th%C3%A9odore" title="Jean-François Théodore">Jean-François Théodore</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 2015)</p>
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