On May 18, at the Republican National Convention in Chicago, Lincoln's friends promised and manipulated and won the nomination on the third ballot, beating candidates such as William H. Seward and Salmon P. Chase.

By the 2004 season the Diamondbacks had dropped to a dismal 51 – 111 record, the worst in Major League Baseball and one of the 10 worst records in the modern era, despite Johnson pitching a perfect game on May 18 of that season.

Antonio Salieri ( 18 August 17507 May 1825 ) was a classical composer, conductor and teacher born in Legnago, south of Verona, in the Republic of Venice, but who spent his adult life and career as a faithful subject of the Habsburg monarchy.

Abdülaziz ( Ottoman Turkish: عبد العزيز / ` Abdü ’ l -` Azīz ; February 9 / 18, 1830 – June 4, 1876 ) was the 32nd Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and reigned between 25 June 1861 and 30 May 1876.

Fairbanks receives an average 21 hours of daylight between May 10 and August 2 each summer, and an average of less than four hours of daylight between November 18 and January 24 each winter.

::::( 4 ) the May 18 edition of the The San Francisco Chronicle

:::::( 5 ) my copy of the May 18 edition of the The San Francisco Chronicle

::::::( 6 ) my copy of the May 18 edition of the The San Francisco Chronicle as it was when I first picked it up ( as contrasted with my copy as it was a few days later: in my fireplace, burning )

According to the Boston Globe ( as reported on May 18, 2010 ), the town has renamed its amphitheater in the artist's honor, and is looking to develop an Al Capp Museum.

Athanasius is venerated as a Christian saint, whose feast day is 2 May in Western Christianity, 15 May in the Coptic Orthodox Church, and 18 January in the other Eastern Orthodox Churches.

Turbo C was released on May 18, 1987 and an estimated 100, 000 copies were shipped in the first month of its release.

" Accordingly, on 18 May, Villeroi set off from Leuven at the head of 70 battalions, 132 squadrons and 62 cannon – comprising an overall force of some 60, 000 troops – and crossed the river Dyle to seek battle with the enemy.

Bill Macy ( born Wolf Mavin Garber, May 18, 1922 ) is an American television and stage actor.

* On May 18, 1996, a second mutiny was led by 500 soldiers who refused to be disarmed and denounced the agreement reached in April.

The Emperor stimulated private building by promising householders gifts of land from the Imperial estates in Asiana and Pontica, and on 18 May 332, he announced that, as in Rome, free distributions of food would be made to the citizens.

* Napoleon Bonaparte ( First Consul ), Jean-Jacques Cambacérès ( Second Consul ), Charles-François Lebrun ( Third Consul ), Consuls ( 12 December 1799 – 18 May 1804 )

It opened for signature on 18 May 1977 in Geneva and entered into force on 5 October 1978.

* William Theodore Heard ( 28 April 1969 – 18 May 1970 )

* Antonio Bacci ( 18 May 1970 – 20 January 1971 )

On May 18, 1916 agents of Yuan Shikai assassinated Chen Qimei.

Former Crowded House drummer Peter Jones died from brain cancer on 18 May 2012 aged 49.

On 18 May 1983 the Ministry of Agriculture, recognized Canchim type cattle as a Breed.

* Smith, Ralph Lee, " The Wired Nation ", The Nation magazine, May 18, 1970

Adams responded on May 18, 1998, with a comic strip called Pippy the Ziphead, " cramming as much artwork in as possible so no one will notice there's only one joke ... it's on the reader.

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton PC ( 25 May 1803 – 18 January 1873 ), was an English politician, poet, playwright, and novelist.

The Haitian army, now led by Dessalines, devastated Rochembeau and the French army at the Battle of Vertières on November 18, 1803.

When Audubon, at age 18, boarded ship for emigration to the United States in 1803, he changed his name to an anglicized form: John James Audubon.

Johann August Sutter ( February 15, 1803 – June 18, 1880 ) was a Swiss pioneer of California known for his association with the California Gold Rush by the discovery of gold by James W. Marshall and the mill making team at Sutter's Mill, and for establishing Sutter's Fort in the area that would eventually become Sacramento, the state's capital.

William Allen ( December 18 or 27, 1803 – July 11, 1879 ) was an Democratic Representative, Senator and 31st Governor of Ohio.

* John Wordsworth ( 18 June 1803 – 1875 ).

* January 18 – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, English writer ( b. 1803 )

* April 18 – Justus von Liebig, German chemist ( b. 1803 )

* October 18 – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author ( d. 1803 )

In 1803, Goirle was separated from Tilburg and on 18 April 1809, Tilburg was granted city status.

Possible dates include 9 November 1799, when Bonaparte seized power in France ; 18 May 1803, when Britain and France ended the only period of peace in Europe between 1792 and 1814, and 2 December 1804, when Bonaparte crowned himself Emperor.

The French intervention in the Swiss civil strife, a breach of the Treaty of Lunéville ( 1801 ) between France and the Holy Roman Empire which guaranteed Swiss sovereignty, was taken as a pretext by the United Kingdom to break the peace of Amiens and declare war on France on 18 May 1803.

On May 18, 1803, slightly more than a year after the peace, war resumed.

Ohio became a state in 1803 and on February 18, 1804, the state legislature passes an act establishing the " Ohio University " in the town of Athens.

The consequent Peace of Amiens lasted only one year ( 18 May 1803 ) and was the only period of peace during the so-called ' Great French War ' between 1793 and 1815.

In response, on 22 May 1803 ( 2 Prairial, year XI ), the First Consul suddenly ordered the imprisonment of all British males between the ages of 18 and 60 in France, trapping many travelling civilians.

On 18 November 1803, black and mulatto forces under Dessalines and Pétion attacked the fort of Vertières, held by Rochambeau, near Cap-Français in the north.

Canning approved of the declaration of war against France on 18 May 1803.

The last battle of the Haitian Revolution, the Battle of Vertières, occurred on 18 November 1803, near Cap-Haïtien.

On 18 November 1803, François Capois defeated Rochambeau's forces in the Battle of Vertières.

Ludwig GleimJohann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim ( 2 April 1719 – 18 February 1803 ) was a German poet.

He died at Halberstadt on 18 February 1803.

Professor James Beattie FRSE ( 25 October 1735 – 18 August 1803 ) was a Scottish poet, moralist and philosopher.

French explorer Nicolas Baudin visited King George Sound from 18 February – 1 March 1803, in the Géographe and Casaurina.