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||1946 – Maurice Krafft, French volcanologist (d. 1991) | ||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]]. | |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. | ||1957 – United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on obscenity grounds. | ||
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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.