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mine in western Turkey. Workers gathered in one area to hastily put on gas masks.
• "The company is guilty," Bicak told The Associated Press, adding that managers had machines that measure methane gas levels. "The new gas levels had gotten too high and they didn't tell us in time."
• The miner also said government safety inspectors never visited the lower reaches of the Soma mine and have no idea of how bad conditions get.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
• Today is Sunday, May 18, the 138th day of 2014. There are 227 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On May 18, 1944, during World War II, Allied forces finally occupied Monte Cassino in Italy after a four-month struggle with Axis troops.
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• On this date:
• In 1642, the Canadian city of Montreal was founded by French colonists.
• In 1765, about one-fourth of Montreal was destroyed by a fire.
• In 1896, the Supreme Court, in Plessy v. Ferguson, endorsed "separate but equal" racial segregation, a concept renounced 58 years later in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.
• In 1910, Halley's Comet passed by earth, brushing it with its tail.
• In 1926, evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson vanished while visiting a beach in Venice, California. (McPherson reappeared more than a month later, saying she'd escaped after being kidnapped and held for ransom.)
• In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a measure creating the Tennessee Valley Authority.
• In 1934, Congress approved, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed, the so-called "Lindbergh Act," providing for the death penalty in cases of interstate kidnapping.
• In 1953, Jacqueline Cochran became the first woman to break the sound barrier as she piloted a Canadair F-86 Sabre jet over Rogers Dry Lake, California.
• In 1969, astronauts Eugene A. Cernan, Thomas P. Stafford and John W. Young blasted off aboard Apollo 10 on a mission to orbit the moon.
• In 1974, India conducted its first nuclear test explosion.
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