About the day » Monday May 18, 2009Calender converter

• Christina Pijnacker (89)
• Dick Mouw (79), Irvine, California, Verenigde Staten
• Evertje van den Broek (58), Hierden
• Elisabeth Marie Claire Leopoldine Jacqueline van Croÿ-Solre (87), Thiernay
• Cornelis van Hameren (56), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Alexander Nicolaas Gerritsen (95), West Lafayette
• Derkje Hermina de Bruin (78), Hengelo
• Anthoon Eikens
• Douwe (Dominicus) Galema (82), ,, Windsor, Essex, Ontario, Canada
• Cornelia Hendrika Robbertsen (72)

• 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

• 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 » Alan Oakley, English bicycle designer, designed the Raleigh Chopper (b. 1927)
• 2012 » Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, German opera singer and conductor (b. 1925)
• 2012 » Peter Jones, English-Australian drummer and songwriter (b. 1967)
• 2013 » Aleksei Balabanov, Russian director and screenwriter (b. 1959)
• 2013 » Jo Benkow, Norwegian soldier and politician (b. 1924)

• 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 Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.5 million citizens.
• January 24 » Cyclone Klaus makes landfall near Bordeaux, France, causing 26 deaths as well as extensive disruptions to public transport and power supplies.
• January 26 » Rioting breaks out in Antananarivo, Madagascar, sparking a political crisis that will result in the replacement of President Marc Ravalomanana with Andry Rajoelina.
• June 5 » After 65 straight days of civil disobedience, at least 31 people are killed in clashes between security forces and indigenous people near Bagua, Peru.
• September 28 » The military junta leading Guinea attacks a protest rally, killing or wounding 1400 people.
• November 5 » U.S. Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan murders 13 and wounds 32 at Fort Hood, Texas in the deadliest mass shooting at a U.S. military installation.
• December 30 » A suicide bomber kills nine people at Forward Operating Base Chapman, a key facility of the Central Intelligence Agency in Afghanistan.

The temperature on May 18, 2009 was between 9.4 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 13.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 10.5 hours of sunshine (66%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.