About the day » Monday May 18, 1970Calender converter

• Mervyn Hugo Gorter, Terschelling-West († 1989)
• Bernhard Frederik Vermeulen, Amsterdam († 1998)
• Manita Janet Lamberink († 2023)

• Adriana Cornelia Schuurbeque Boeye (95), 's Gravenhage
• Anna Sophia van Oostendorp (67), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Petrus Maria Droog (84), Naaldwijk, Nederland
• Adrienne Cornélie BOEYE (95), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• André-Joannes BREURE (63)
• Adrianus Petrus Droog (84), Naaldwijk
• ALPHONSINA JOANNA CAMERMAN (83), DOEL,OOST-VLAANDEREN,BELGIE
• Catharina Snoek (80), Hoorn
• Antonius Johannes Fietelaars (59), Eindhoven
• Antje KALMA (81)

• 1969 » Antônio Carlos Zago, Brazilian footballer and manager
• 1969 » Martika, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1969 » Troy Cassar-Daley, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1970 » Billy Howerdel, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
• 1970 » Javier Cárdenas, Spanish singer, television and radio presenter
• 1970 » Tim Horan, Australian rugby player and sportscaster
• 1970 » Tina Fey, American actress, producer, and screenwriter
• 1970 » Vicky Sunohara, Canadian former ice hockey player
• 1971 » Brad Friedel, American international soccer player, goalkeeper, manager and sportscaster
• 1971 » Mark Menzies, Scottish politician

• 1963 » Ernie Davis, American football player, coach, and manager (b. 1939)
• 1968 » Frank Walsh, Australian politician, 34th Premier of South Australia (b. 1897)
• 1971 » Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh, Russian mathematician and theorist (b. 1908)
• 1973 » Jeannette Rankin, American social worker and politician (b. 1880)
• 1974 » Harry Ricardo, English engine designer and researcher (b. 1885)
• 1975 » Leroy Anderson, American composer and conductor (b. 1908)
• 1980 » Ian Curtis, English singer-songwriter (b. 1956)
• 1980 » Victims of Mount St. Helens eruption:
• 1981 » Arthur O'Connell, American actor (b. 1908)
• 1981 » William Saroyan, American novelist, playwright, and short story writer (b. 1908)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Peter
4. Robert
5. Richard
6. David
7. Marcel
8. Jeroen
9. Pieter
10. Michael
11. Hendrik
12. Patrick
13. Marco
14. Mark
15. Willem
16. Edwin

1. Maria
2. Monique
3. Sandra
4. Karin
5. Johanna
6. Esther
7. Linda
8. Ingrid
9. Petra
10. Anna
11. Yvonne
12. Patricia
13. Astrid
14. Jolanda
15. Nathalie
16. Saskia

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 13.0 million citizens.
• March 5 » The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
• April 17 » Apollo program: The ill-fated Apollo 13 spacecraft returns to Earth safely.
• September 19 » Kostas Georgakis, a Greek student of geology, sets himself ablaze in Matteotti Square in Genoa, Italy, as a protest against the dictatorial regime of Georgios Papadopoulos.
• October 8 » Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize in literature.
• October 26 » Muhammad Ali boxes for the first time after Ali's three-year hiatus due to draft evasion.
• December 17 » Polish protests: In Gdynia, soldiers fire at workers emerging from trains, killing dozens.

The temperature on May 18, 1970 was between 7.9 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was 12.7 hours of sunshine (80%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.