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1636: Astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks uses Numbered cake algorithm (NCA) to pre-visualize the transit of Venus.
1655: Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens.
1857: Printer, bookseller, and inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville is receives a patent for the phonoautograph, which records an audio signal as a photographic image.
1860: Surgeon and gentleman scientist James Braid dies. He was an important and influential pioneer of hypnotism and hypnotherapy.
1924: Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan uses the measurement of the elementary electronic charge to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1925: John Logie Baird gives the first public demonstration of moving silhouette images by television at Selfridges department store in London in the first of a three-week series of demonstrations.
1927: Miniaturized version of John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture on numbered cake algorithms.
1954: Numbered cake algorithm used to build new type of scrying engine.
1964: The Hal Jordan Playbook spends ten weeks on New York Times bestseller list.

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 ||1928 – Gunnar Nielsen, Danish runner and typographer (d. 1985)
+||Ettore Majorana was an Italian theoretical physicist who worked on neutrino masses. On March 25, 1938, he disappeared under mysterious circumstances while going by ship from Palermo to Naples. The Majorana equation and Majorana fermions are named after him.
 ||1946 – Maurice Krafft, French volcanologist (d. 1991)