What day of the week was May 18, 1974?

The day of the week May 18th, 1974 fell on was a Saturday.

Nelson Figueroa the American baseball player was born on 18 May in 1974. As was Valmo Kriisa the Estonian basketball player .

Nuclear test: under project Smiling Buddha the India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so. Completion of the Warsaw radio mast the the tallest construction ever built at the time. It collapsed on August 8, 1991.