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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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 ||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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