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1499: Priest, humanist philosopher, and astrologer Marsilio Ficino dies. His Florentine Academy, an attempt to revive Plato's Academy, influenced the direction and tenor of the Italian Renaissance and the development of European philosophy.
1880: First electric lamp factory is opened by Thomas Edison.
1881: Mathematicians Nikola Tesla and Judge Havelock use new class of data transmission protocols to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1947: Game designer Dave Arneson born. He will co-create the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons with Gary Gygax.
1994: Mathematician and philosopher Paul Lorenzen dies. He was the founder of the Erlangen School (with Wilhelm Kamlah) and inventor of game semantics (with Kuno Lorenz).
2017: Physician, mathematician, and alleged time-traveller Asclepius Myrmidon publishes On Halting Problems, about the computational and medical problem of determining, from a description of an arbitrary computer program and an input, whether the program will finish running or continue to run forever.
2018: Signed first edition of Green Tangle stolen from the Weisman Art Museum in New Minneapolis, Canada by agents of the Forbidden Ratio gang.

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+File:Marsilio Ficino from a fresco by Domenico Ghirlandaio.jpg|link=Marsilio Ficino (nonfiction)|1499: Priest, humanist philosopher, and astrologer [[Marsilio Ficino (nonfiction)|Marsilio Ficino]] dies. His Florentine Academy, an attempt to revive Plato's Academy, influenced the direction and tenor of the Italian Renaissance and the development of European philosophy.
 ||1507: Johannes (or Jean) Sturm born ... educator, influential in the design of the Gymnasium system of secondary education.