What day of the week was May 18, 1955?

The day of the week May 18th, 1955 fell on was a Wednesday.

Lena T. Hansson the Swedish actress was born on 18 May in 1955. As was Peeter Vähi the Estonian composer .

Mary McLeod Bethune the American educator and activist (b. 1875) died on this day in 1955.

Operation Passage to Freedom the the evacuation of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First Indochina War, ends.