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Events on July 18

• 1796 In his Munich studio, the writer Alois Senefelder succeeds in producing serial lithographs for the first time, a planographic printing process that he develops further over the next two years.
• 1877 Thomas Alva Edison succeeds in making a sound recording for the first time on a steel cylinder covered with tin foil (phonograph).
• 1926 The Planetarium Jena is opened. At the time, it was the fourth of its kind worldwide and is today the oldest one still in operation.
• 1942 The world's first combat-ready jet fighter, the Messerschmitt Me 262, makes its maiden flight.
• 1949 The Voluntary Self-Control of the Film Industry (FSK) is presented with the first film for review with regard to youth protection.
• 1968 The company Intel is founded.
• 1972 In its Numerus Clausus ruling, the German Federal Constitutional Court calls for a nationwide allocation agency for university places with uniform selection criteria—later implemented as the Central University Admissions Agency.
• 1976 A few weeks after the opening of the Elbe Side Canal, a dam breach occurs near the municipality of Adendorf. About four million cubic meters of water flood the surrounding area.
• 1976 At the Summer Olympics in Montreal, 14-year-old Romanian Nadia Comăneci becomes the first female gymnast ever to receive the maximum score of 10.0 for her uneven bars routine, a score she will receive six more times at these Games.
• 2000 For the first time, a British head of state opens an embassy abroad. Queen Elizabeth II officially opens the British Embassy in Berlin as a diplomatic mission.
• 2004 An F2 to F3 tornado causes damage mainly in Duisburg, but also in Tönisvorst, Krefeld, Oberhausen and Essen, amounting to hundreds of millions, and injures seven people.
• 2019 In the arson attack on Kyōto Animation, 36 people are killed and 34 others are injured. The animation studio is so badly affected that it is demolished a few months later. It is one of the deadliest attacks in Japan's postwar history.

Born on July 18

• 1853 Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Dutch mathematician and physicist, Nobel laureate
• 1864 Ricarda Huch, German writer, poet and storyteller
• 1921 Heinz Bennent, German actor
• 1921 John Glenn, American test pilot and astronaut
• 1941 Frank Farian, German music producer, composer and singer
• 1950 Richard Branson, British entrepreneur
• 1970 Joe Chialo, German music manager and politician
• 1980 Kristen Bell, American actress and singer
• 1983 Jan Schlaudraff, German footballer
• 1991 Florian Wünsche, German actor

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „18. Juli“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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