Template:Selected anniversaries/March 25
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1636: Astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks uses Numbered cake algorithm (NCA) to pre-visualize the transit of Venus.
1860: Surgeon and gentleman scientist James Braid born. He will be an important and influential pioneer of hypnotism and hypnotherapy.
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.
1964: The Hal Jordan Playbook spends ten weeks on New York Times bestseller list.