About the day » Thursday May 18, 2006Calender converter

• André d'Otreppe de Bouvette (92), Cierreux-Bovigny, 6671, Luxembourg
• André Marie Joseph d'OTREPPE de BOUVETTE (92), Bovigny, 6671, Luxembourg, Belgique
• Albert van Spijker (93), Meppel, Drenthe, Nederland
• Elsje Poeder (61), Emmen
• Elsje Hendrekien Poeder (61), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Maria Petronella GEURTS (84), Thorn, Netherlands
• Ann Pauline Macaulay (79), Carmichael, Sacramento, California, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Petronella Maria Geurts (84), Thorn
• Cornelia Vuijk (88), Almere
• Adam Todd ?**** (80), Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland

• 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

• 2000 » Stephen M. Wolownik, Russian-American composer and musicologist (b. 1946)
• 2001 » Irene Hunt, American author and illustrator (b. 1907)
• 2004 » Elvin Jones, American drummer and bandleader (b. 1927)
• 2006 » Jaan Eilart, Estonian geographer, ecologist, and historian (b. 1933)
• 2007 » Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1932)
• 2008 » Joseph Pevney, American actor and director (b. 1911)
• 2008 » Roberto García-Calvo Montiel, Spanish judge (b. 1942)
• 2009 » Velupillai Prabhakaran, Sri Lankan rebel leader, founded the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (b. 1954)
• 2012 » Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, German opera singer and conductor (b. 1925)
• 2012 » Peter Jones, English-Australian drummer and songwriter (b. 1967)

1. Jop
2. Thijs
3. Thomas
4. Sem
5. Lucas
6. Daan
7. Stijn
8. Lars
9. Tim
10. Milan
11. Jesse
12. Ruben
13. Jan
14. Sam
15. Niels
16. Miquel

1. Emma
2. Fleur
3. Sanne
4. Anna
5. Joanna
6. Sophie
7. Marit
8. Julia
9. Arieanna
10. Anouk
11. Maria
12. Lotte
13. Leonore
14. Anne
15. Iris
16. Eva

• 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 Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, July 7, 2006 to Thursday, February 22, 2007 the cabinet Balkenende III, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
• February 16 » The last Mobile army surgical hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.
• June 3 » The union of Serbia and Montenegro comes to an end with Montenegro's formal declaration of independence.
• June 21 » Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix and Hydra.
• July 17 » The 7.7 M_w  Pangandaran tsunami earthquake severely affects the Indonesian island of Java, killing 668 people, and leaving more than 9,000 injured.
• August 25 » Former Prime Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Lazarenko is sentenced to nine years imprisonment for money laundering, wire fraud, and extortion.
• December 11 » The International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust is opened in Tehran, Iran, by then-president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; nations such as Israel and the United States express concern.

The temperature on May 18, 2006 was between 12.0 °C and 18.8 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 10.2 mm of rain during 3.4 hours. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (31%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.