Do You Remember Today – May 18

“OTHER IMPORTANT EVENTS…”

• 1980 –  Joy Division singer and guitarist Ian Curtis hanged himself in the kitchen of his house in Macclesfield, England at the age of 23
• 1897 – A public reading of Bram Stoker’s new novel, “Dracula, or, The Un-dead,” was performed in London.

• 1942 – New York ended night baseball games for the duration of World War II.
• 1951 – The United Nations moved its headquarters to New York City.
• 1974 – India became the sixth nation to explode an atomic bomb.
• 1980 – Mt. Saint Helens erupted in Washington state. 57 people were killed and 3 billion in damage was done.
• 1988 – Ike Turner was sentenced to a year in jail for possession and transportation of cocaine.
• 2000 – Madonna’s boyfriend Guy Ritchie was arrested after attacking a fan outside the superstar’s London home. Ritchie was said to have kicked and punched a male fan after the couple returned home from a night out.

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