18 July is the 199th day of a year (200th in leap years). There are 166 days remaining until the end of the year.

Behind the scenes

• 1817: Jane Austen, the muggle author who wrote Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility, dies.^{[citation needed]}
• 1948: James Faulkner, the actor who voiced Severus Snape in the video game adaptation of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, is born.^[1]
• 1987: River George, the actress who would have played Laurasia in the film version of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, a character that never appears in the books, is born.^[2]
• 2011: Magic Beyond Words: The J.K. Rowling Story first broadcast

External links

• 18 July on Wikipedia

Notes and references