On this day — May 18

Joe Biden launches his presidential campaign.

ending almost 26 years of fighting between the two sides.

Nix and Hydra.

ceding the area to the Palestinian National Authority to govern.

Copenhagen, caused by the approval of the four Danish exceptions in the Maastricht Treaty referendum. Police open fire against civilians for the first time since World War II and injure 11 demonstrators.

United States, killing 57 people and causing $3 billion in damage.

South Korea begin demonstrations calling for democratic reforms.

with Menachem Begin, its founder, as the sixth Prime Minister of Israel.

Under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so.