A day in History. May 18

1792 Russian troops invade Poland.
1802 Britain declares war on France.
1804 Military general and revolutionary Napoleon Bonaparte becomes the first emperor of France.
1828 The Battle of Las Piedras, between Uruguay and Brazil, ends.
1860 Abraham Lincoln is nominated for president.
1896 The Supreme Court's decision on Plessy v. Ferguson upholds the "separate but equal" policy in the United States.
1953 Pilot Jacqueline Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier during a flight over California.
1942 New York ends night baseball games for the rest of World War II.
1951 The United Nations moves its headquarters to New York city.
1974 India becomes sixth nation to explode an atomic bomb.

Nacionales:
1965 La Cruz Roja solicita una tregua para recoger las víctimas, como resultado de los enfrentamientos entre tropas estadounidenses y la Junta de San Isidro cobtra las tropas constitucionalistas.