MeMeMe #6 'Logos & Mythos' My Gift To 1984

The ancient Greeks contrasted mythos with logos as two opposing ways of understanding and explaining the world.
Mythos (μῦθος), meaning "story," "narrative," "tale," "..." can be subjective and uses a framework based on combinations of myths, true stories, and inference.
Logos (λόγος), meaning "word," "reason," "principle" "..." is objective and uses a framework based on rational, analytical, or factual explanation.

Some 10/15 observances:
-National Mushroom Day
-Global Handwashing Day
-Evacuation Day in Tunisia
-Shwmae Su'mae Day in Wales
-Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day (Canada, US, UK and Italy)
-Teachers day in Brazil
-World Students' Day in India

Some Famous people born 10/15:
1844-Friedrich Nietzsche
1858-John L. Sullivan
1953-Tito Jackson
1970-Ginuwine

Some Historic events of 10/15:

533-Byzantine General Belisarius formally enters Carthage

1529-The Siege of Vienna ends

1582-Gregorian calendar introduced in Spain

1655-Jews of Lublin are massacred

1674-Torsåker witch trials begin in Sweden

1756-Saxon army surrenders to Prussia

1793-Queen Marie Antoinette of France guillotined for treason

1815-Napoleon BonaparteCambridgein exile at St Helena 

1827-Charles Darwin accepted as pensioner at Christ's College, Cambridge

1842-Karl Marx becomes editor-in-chief of Rheinische Zeitung

1878-The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation

1883-US Supreme Court declares Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional

1888-Friedrich Nietzsche, on his 44th birthday, writes his autobiography "Ecce Homo"
-Jack the Ripper's letter "From Hell" received by investigators.

1910-Airship America is launched from New Jersey

1913-Train crash at St. James' Station, Liverpool

1914-Battle of Warsaw begins (ends Oct 21)
-US Clayton Anti-trust Act passed (union & strike rights)

1917-Dancer Mata Hari is executed

1923-The German Rentenmark introduced in Germany (to counter hyperinflation)

1924-Statue of Liberty declared national monument by President Coolidge

1933-20th Amendment takes effect

1934- The "Long March" begins under Mao

1937-"The Flying Fortress " first test flight
-First publishing of Ernest Hemmingways "To Have and Have Not"

1939-LaGuardia Airport in NYC opens
-Yeshiva of Mir closes after 124 years

1940-Waterloo Station bombed
- "The Great Dictator" starring Charlie Chaplin released

1942-German 6th Army occupies Tractorenfabriek

1944-The Arrow Cross Party takes power in Hungary

1945 - Pierre Laval, the former premier of Vichy France, was executed for treason.

1946-Hermann Goering, founder of the Gestapo, poisoned himself before execution

1954-Hurricane Hazel strikes southern Ontario

1956-William J. Brennan, Jr. appointed to US Supreme Court
-First plane to land safely on water
-first modern computer language, FORTRAN is shared with coding community.

1966-LBJ signs a bill creating US Department of Transportation

1969-Vietnam Moratorium Day; millions nationwide protest the war

1970-section of West Gate Bridge collapses in Melbourne, Australia

1973-Tanks attack Thailand demonstrating students, 300 killed

1974-National Guard mobilizes to restore order in Boston school busing

1979-Military coup in El Salvador

1983-US Marine sharpshooters kill 5 snipers at Beirut International Airport

1984-H.R.5164; Central Intelligence Agency Information Act
-FOIA

1985-Shuttle Columbia carries Spacelab into orbit
-Shelley Taylor of Australia swims record lap around Manhattan
(6 hours 12 minutes 29 seconds)

1987-Fiji becomes a republic

1990-Mikhail Gorbachev wins the Nobel Peace Prize (helping to end Cold War)

1991-Clarence Thomas confirmed as US Supreme Court Justice (52-48)

1991-The "Oh-My-God particle", observed at the University of Utah

1993-Nelson Mandela and F.W. de Klerk win Nobel Peace Prize (efforts to end apartheid in SA.)

1997-Land speed record made beyond speed of sound. (Pilot, Andy Green)

2011-Julian Assange speaks at protest in London
-Legoland Florida opened in Winter Haven, Florida.-

2017-Actress Alyssa Milano fuels "Me too" movement with a tweet. tweet, prompting a flood of replies across Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter

2018-Paul Allen, best known for co-founding Microsoft with childhood friend Bill Gates in 1975, dies at age 65

2019-Gunfight between Mexican security forces and armed civilians leaves 15 dead in Guerrero state a day after 13 police officers are killed in a drug cartel ambush in Michoacán
-Record 12 Democratic presidential candidates participate in a live TV debate in Westerville, Ohio

2020-Thai government issues an emergency decree banning public gatherings amid increasing pro-democracy protests and criticism of the king

2021-British MP Sir David Amess is stabbed to death at a meeting with constituents in Essex, England

2023-Businessman Daniel Noboa, at 35, is elected Ecuador's youngest-ever president 

2024-Overturned oil tanker explodes in Jigawa State, Nigeria, killing at least 170 people collecting oil