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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.

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 ||1957 – United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on obscenity grounds.
-File:The Hal Jordan Playbook.jpg|link=The Hal Jordan Playbook|1964: ''[[The Hal Jordan Playbook]]'' spends ten weeks on New York Times bestseller list.
+||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.