MOUNT ST HELENS
Trucks lay damaged after high water swept through a logging operation on the Toutle River Sunday, May 18, 1980 after Mount St. Helens erupted causing flash flooding in some areas. At least seven persons have died as a result of the volcano which is located 45 miles northeast of Portland in Washington. (AP Photo/Jack Smith)
Mount St. Helens
Mount St. Helens in Washington state is shown in various stages of eruption, May 18, 1980. (AP Photo)
Eleanor Roosevelt
Young women, employed in Washington, and housed in the government's new dormitory city at Arlington Farms, Va., were visited by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt on May 18, 1943. The first lady, as she chats with Marcia Danaher, 18, Brooklyn, N.Y., who works in the Navy Annex, while Marcia does her ironing in one of the ironing rooms provided. (AP Photo/William J. Smith)
Civil Rights Demonstration
Bayard Rustin, civil rights organizer, speaks from platform erected in front of New York's City Hall, May 18, 1964, as crowd of some 3,000 persons rallied. Rally was high point of day-long activities by civil rights groups seeking school integration. (AP Photo)
GRAND CENTRAL STRIKE WARNING
New York's Grand Central Terminal bustles with commuters on May 18, 1946. (AP Photo)
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Jack Toale, a wire lather, calls to his foreman to verify the size of a section of steel that is to be bent at the Metropolitan Opera House May 18,1964 in New York's Lincoln Center. The $35 million building is scheduled for completion in 1965. A steel lattice now fills the five high, arches of the opera house, which will seat 3,765. The stage area will be six times larger that of the Met's present home on Broadway. (AP Photo).
BRITISH RUSSIAN SPACE CREW
Britain's Helen Sharman, left, Russian flight engineer Sergei Krikalev, centre, and Commander Anatoly Artsebarski, walk towards their spaceship, Soyuz TM-12, prior to blast off on May 18, 1991, at the Cosmodrome, Baikonur, Russia. (AP Photo)
Jesse Owens
A disc jockey and sports specialist for the Illinois Youth Commission, Jesse Owens shown in Chicago on May 18, 1960, the 46-year-old grandfather set a record 25 years ago 26 feet, 8 ¼ inches in running broad jump, still the world’s record. This was while Jesse was a member of the Ohio State track team. Record breaking leap was made in Ann Arbor, Michigan on May 25, 1935. (AP Photo/Harry L. Hall)
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On May 18, 1980: The Mount St. Helens volcano in Washington state exploded, leaving 57 people dead or missing.