Today in History: May 18, Mount St. Helens erupts

In current times is Sunday May the th day of There are days left in the year In contemporary times in history On May the Mount St Helens volcano in Washington state erupted leaving an estimated people dead or missing Also on this date In the Siege of Vicksburg began during the Civil War ending July with a Union preeminence Related Articles Mexican tall ship strikes Brooklyn Bridge snapping masts and injuring sailors Explosion outside California fertility clinic that killed was act of terrorism Currently in History May Supreme Court strikes down school segregation World Pride comes to Washington in the shadow of and in defiance of the Trump administration Severe weather leaves at least dead including in storm-battered Kentucky In the U S Supreme Court in Plessy v Ferguson endorsed separate but equal racial segregation The decision was reversed years later by Brown v Board of Schooling of Topeka In in America s deadliest school attack part of a schoolhouse in Bath Township Michigan was blown up with explosives planted by local farmer Andrew Kehoe who then set off a bomb in his truck the attacks killed children and six adults including Kehoe who d earlier killed his wife Bureaucrats stated Kehoe who suffered financial difficulties was seeking revenge for losing a township clerk electoral contest In President Franklin D Roosevelt signed a measure creating the Tennessee Valley Authority the largest citizens utility in America In Harvard law professor Archibald Cox was appointed Watergate special prosecutor by U S Attorney General Elliot Richardson In the New York Native a gay newspaper carried a story concerning rumors of an exotic new syndrome among LGBTQ people it was the first published record about what came to be known as AIDS In the U S authorities filed an antitrust development against Microsoft saying the powerful solution company had a choke hold on competitors that was denying consumers key choices about how they bought and used computers The Justice Department and Microsoft reached a settlement in In a -year-old armed with a shotgun and a pistol opened fire at a Houston-area high school killing eight students and two teachers In contemporary times s Birthdays Baseball Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson is Musician Rick Wakeman Yes is Musician-composer Mark Mothersbaugh Devo is Country musician George Strait is Actor Chow Yun-Fat is Hockey Hall of Famer Jari Kurri is Tennis Hall of Famer Yannick Noah is Comedian-writer Tina Fey is Rock singer Jack Johnson is Heisman Trophy winner Travis Hunter is