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Events on November 18

• 1837 The Göttingen Seven, seven professors from the University of Göttingen, submit a written protest against the revocation of the liberal constitution by their sovereign, King Ernest Augustus I of Hanover.
• 1865 The first line of the Berlin pneumatic telegraph service is put into operation.
• 1928 In the animated film Steamboat Willie, one of the earliest films with sound, Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse makes his first major appearance.
• 1943 Hermann Hesse's novel The Glass Bead Game is published.
• 1965 The Polish bishops appeal to their German brother bishops for reconciliation.
• 1974 5,000 people attend the funeral of RAF member Holger Meins in Hamburg-Stellingen.
• 1981 Towards the end of the second peace decade in East Germany, “Swords into Plowshares” badges are distributed, popularizing the symbol beyond church circles.
• 1988 In East Germany, the distribution of the Soviet magazine Sputnik is halted. As part of Soviet glasnost and perestroika policies, information undesirable to the East German leadership is disseminated in the magazine.
• 1993 For the MTV Unplugged series, the grunge band Nirvana plays a concert in New York, which is later released on CD.
• 2002 In Europe's largest housing estate, Berlin-Marzahn, the demolition of the first high-rise from the East German era begins; it was built in the 1970s.
• 2011 The video game Minecraft is released.
• 2021 Using newly declassified files, Oliver Stone's documentary JFK Revisited: The Truth About the Murder of John F. Kennedy is released in cinemas in Germany and elsewhere, but finds no distributor in the United States.

Born on November 18

• 1863 Richard Dehmel, German poet and writer
• 1897 Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, British physicist and Nobel laureate
• 1940 Qaboos ibn Sa'id, Omani sultan
• 1960 Kim Wilde, British singer and songwriter
• 1962 Kirk Hammett, American lead guitarist
• 1970 Anna Loos, German actress and singer
• 1971 Ilka Bessin, German stand-up comedian
• 1980 Christian Zeitz, German handball player
• 1982 Gracia Baur, German pop singer
• 1992 Emanuel Buchmann, German racing cyclist

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

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