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||1538 – Christopher Clavius, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1612)
|File:Jeremiah Horrocks.jpg|link=Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|1636: Astronomer [[Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|Jeremiah Horrocks]] uses [[Numbered cake algorithm]] (NCA) to pre-visualize the transit of Venus.
File:Christiaan Huygens.jpg|link=Christiaan Huygens (nonfiction)|1655: Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by [[Christiaan Huygens (nonfiction)|Christiaan Huygens]].
File:Christiaan Huygens.jpg|link=Christiaan Huygens (nonfiction)|1655: Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by [[Christiaan Huygens (nonfiction)|Christiaan Huygens]].
||Gabriele Manfredi (b. 1681) was an Italian mathematician who undertook important work in the field of calculus.
||1712 – Nehemiah Grew, English anatomist and physiologist (b. 1641)
||Christoph Gudermann (b. March 25, 1798) was a German mathematician noted for introducing the Gudermannian function and the concept of uniform convergence
||1807 – The Slave Trade Act becomes law, abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire.
||1800 – Ernst Heinrich Karl von Dechen, German geologist and academic (d. 1889)
||1818 – Caspar Wessel, Norwegian-Danish mathematician and cartographer (b. 1745)


File:Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville.jpg|link=Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (nonfiction)|1857: Printer, bookseller, and inventor [[Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (nonfiction)|Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville]] is receives a patent for the phonoautograph, which records an audio signal as a photographic image.
File:Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville.jpg|link=Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (nonfiction)|1857: Printer, bookseller, and inventor [[Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (nonfiction)|Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville]] is receives a patent for the phonoautograph, which records an audio signal as a photographic image.
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File:James Braid.jpg|link=James Braid (nonfiction)|1860: Surgeon and gentleman scientist [[James Braid (nonfiction)|James Braid]] dies. He was an important and influential pioneer of hypnotism and hypnotherapy.   
File:James Braid.jpg|link=James Braid (nonfiction)|1860: Surgeon and gentleman scientist [[James Braid (nonfiction)|James Braid]] dies. He was an important and influential pioneer of hypnotism and hypnotherapy.   


||John Henry "Professor" Pepper (d. 25 March 1900) was a British scientist and inventor who toured the English-speaking world with his scientific demonstrations. He entertained the public, royalty, and fellow scientists with a wide range of technological innovations. He is primarily remembered for developing the projection technique known as Pepper's ghost, building a large-scale version of the concept by Henry Dircks. Pic.
File:Maurice d'Ocagne.jpg|link=Philbert Maurice d’Ocagne (nonfiction)|1862: Mathematician and engineer [[Philbert Maurice d’Ocagne (nonfiction)|Philbert Maurice d’Ocagne]] born. He will found the field of nomography, the graphic computation of algebraic equations, on charts which he will called nomograms.


||1912 – Melita Norwood, English civil servant and spy (d. 2005)
File:No prison can hold me, not even the Nacreum - the Eel.jpg|link=The Eel|1923: Art critic and alleged time-traveler '''[[The Eel]]''' escapes from the Nacreum, a transdimensional prison made of artificially intelligent, self-assembling nacre.
 
File:Robert Andrews Millikan.jpg|link=Robert Andrews Millikan (nonfiction)|1924: Physicist [[Robert Andrews Millikan (nonfiction)|Robert Andrews Millikan]] uses the measurement of the elementary electronic charge to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


File:John Logie Baird 1917.jpg|link=John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|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.
File:John Logie Baird 1917.jpg|link=John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|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.
File:John_Fleming_in_Fleming_tube.jpg|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|1927: Miniaturized version of [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] delivers lecture on [[numbered cake algorithms]].
||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)
|File:Numbered cake pops.jpg|link=Numbered cake algorithm|1954: [[Numbered cake algorithm]] used to build new type of [[scrying engine]].
||1957 – United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on obscenity grounds.
||Ralph Elmer Wilson (d. March 25, 1960) was an American astronomer.
||1979 – The first fully functional Space Shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.
||1987 – A. W. Mailvaganam, Sri Lankan physicist and academic (b. 1906)
||Lee Albert Rubel (d. March 25, 1995) was a mathematician, and Doctor of Mathematics renowned for his contributions to analog computing. Nopic
||Sir Philip Stuart Milner-Barry (d. 25 March 1995) was a British chess player, chess writer, World War II codebreaker and civil servant. He represented England in chess both before and after World War II. He worked at Bletchley Park during World War II, and was head of "Hut 6", a section responsible for deciphering messages which had been encrypted using the German Enigma machine. Pic.
||1996 – The European Union's Veterinarian Committee bans the export of British beef and its by-products as a result of mad cow disease (Bovine spongiform encephalopathy).


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