Template:Selected anniversaries/October 1

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  1880: First electric lamp factory is opened by Thomas Edison.

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  1881: Mathematicians Nikola Tesla and Judge Havelock use new class of data transmission protocols to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

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  1947: Game designer Dave Arneson born. He will co-create the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons with Gary Gygax.

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  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).

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  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.

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  2018: Signed first edition of Green Tangle stolen from the Weisman Art Museum in New Minneapolis, Canada by agents of the Forbidden Ratio gang.