About the day » Sunday May 18, 1997Calender converter

• Carter Adam Bentsen, New Westinster, British Columbia, Canada
• Mathijs Steernberg, Bussum († 1997)

• Arnolda Maria van Kruijsbergen (90), Dreumel
• Bartha Marskamp (86)
• Andries Jakobus Balkema (66), Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
• Edith Kathryn Bell (82), Mount Sidney, Augusta Co. Virginia, United States
• Berendina Wilhelmina Boerstoel (87), Zwolle
• Christianus Martinus "Chris" Linden, van der (76), Dordrecht, Nederland
• Anna Huberta Maria van der Klugt (93), Noordwijkerhout
• Dirk Dam (78), Giethoorn
• Corrij Gomes (54), Anna Paulowna
• Alice Eileen Phillips (83), Linden, Union, New Jersey, United States

• 1990 » Dimitri Daeseleire, Belgian footballer
• 1990 » Yuya Osako, Japanese footballer
• 1992 » Adwoa Aboah, British fashion model
• 1993 » Jessica Watson, Australian sailor
• 1993 » Stuart Percy, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1998 » Polina Edmunds, American figure skater
• 1999 » Laura Omloop, Belgian singer-songwriter
• 2000 » Ryan Sessegnon, English footballer
• 2000 » Steven Sessegnon, English footballer
• 2002 » Alina Zagitova, Russian figure skater

• 1990 » Jill Ireland, English actress (b. 1936)
• 1995 » Alexander Godunov, Russian-American ballet dancer and actor (b. 1949)
• 1995 » Brinsley Le Poer Trench, 8th Earl of Clancarty, Irish ufologist and historian (b. 1911)
• 1995 » Elisha Cook, Jr., American actor (b. 1903)
• 1995 » Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress (b. 1933)
• 1998 » Obaidullah Aleem, Indian-Pakistani poet and author (b. 1939)
• 1999 » Augustus Pablo, Jamaican singer, keyboard player, and producer (b. 1954)
• 1999 » Betty Robinson, American runner (b. 1911)
• 2000 » Stephen M. Wolownik, Russian-American composer and musicologist (b. 1946)
• 2001 » Irene Hunt, American author and illustrator (b. 1907)

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 15.6 million citizens.
• January 17 » Cape Canaveral Air Force Station: A Delta II carrying the GPS IIR-1 satellite explodes 13 seconds after launch, dropping 250 tons of burning rocket remains around the launch pad.
• February 7 » NeXT merges with Apple Computer, starting the path to Mac OS X.
• May 16 » Mobutu Sese Seko, the President of Zaire, flees the country.
• July 5 » Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil MP A. Thangathurai is shot dead at Sri Shanmuga Hindu Ladies College in Trincomalee.
• July 27 » About 50 people are killed in the Si Zerrouk massacre in Algeria.
• December 3 » In Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, representatives from 121 countries sign the Ottawa Treaty prohibiting manufacture and deployment of anti-personnel landmines. The United States, People's Republic of China, and Russia do not sign the treaty, however.

The temperature on May 18, 1997 was between 15.8 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 17.5 °C. There was 4.6 mm of rain during 6.0 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.