Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/November 18

November 18:

 * 1477 – William Caxton produces Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophres, the first book printed on a printing press in England


 * 1724 – Death of Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Portuguese naturalist (b. 1685)


 * 1727 – Birth of Philibert Commerçon, French naturalist (d. 1773)


 * 1839 – Birth of August Kundt, German physicist (d. 1894)


 * 1897 – Birth of Patrick Blackett, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)


 * 1906 – Birth of George Wald, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1997)


 * 1941 – Death of Walther Nernst, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)


 * 1962 – Death of Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)


 * 1963 – The first push-button telephone goes into service


 * 1967 – The establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong