Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/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