What day of the week was May 18, 1896?

The day of the week May 18th, 1896 fell on was a Monday.

Eric Backman the Swedish long-distance runner (d. 1965) was born on 18 May in 1896.

The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that the "separate but equal" doctrine is constitutional. Khodynka Tragedy: A mass panic on Khodynka Field in Moscow during the festivities of the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II results in the deaths of 1 the389 people.