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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]]. | 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]]. | ||
||1938: Ettore Majorana disappears ... 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. Pic. | |||
||1938: Ettore Majorana disappears ... 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. | |||
||1940: Jean David Ichbiah born ... computer scientist and the initial chief designer (1977–1983) of Ada, a general-purpose, strongly typed programming language with certified validated compilers. Pic. | ||1940: Jean David Ichbiah born ... computer scientist and the initial chief designer (1977–1983) of Ada, a general-purpose, strongly typed programming language with certified validated compilers. Pic. | ||
||1946: Maurice Krafft born ... volcanologist. | ||1946: Maurice Krafft born ... volcanologist. Will die with wife in pyroclastic flow. Pics. | ||
||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. | ||
||1960: Ralph Elmer Wilson | ||1960: Ralph Elmer Wilson dies ... astronomer. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Ralph+Elmer+Wilson | ||
||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. | ||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. | ||
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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.
1862: Mathematician and engineer 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.
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.