Portal:Germany/Anniversaries/March/March 18


 * 1733 - Birth of writer and bookseller Christoph Friedrich Nicolai
 * 1813 - Birth of dramatist Christian Friedrich Hebbel
 * 1858 - Birth of inventor Rudolf Diesel
 * 1940 - Hitler and Mussolini meet on the Brenner Pass to publicly celebrate their pact
 * 1990 - The first free elections to the Volkskammer are held in the German Democratic Republic