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