MeMeMe #5 'Pathos' - My Gift To Brave New World (09/15/25)

Pathos, from Greek (πάθος) meaning "suffering," "sensation," or "experience". In classical rhetoric, pathos was one of Aristotle's three modes of persuasion, alongside ethos and logos.

Some 09/15 observances:

- 8-Track Tape Day
- Greenpeace Day
- International Day of Democracy
- Tackle Kids Cancer Day
- Google . Com Day
- National Double Cheeseburger Day
- National Neo-natal Nurses Day
- World Afro Day
- Cry of Dolores, (celebrated on the eve of Mexican Independence Day)

Some Famous people born 09/15
1254-Marco Polo
1857-William Taft
1881-Ettore Bugatti
1946-Tommy Lee Jones
1962-Dan Marino

Some Historic events of 09/15

608-Saint Boniface IV begins reign as Pope

668-Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is assassinated

1656-England/France peace treaty

1683-Germantown founded, PA

1762-Battle of Signal Hill

1775-"Liberty" raised over Fort Johnson

1776-British capture Kip's Bay

1777-Washington appoints Pulaski brigadier general

1795-Britain seizes Dutch Cape Colony in SA

1812-Napoleons Grande Armeé reaches Kremlin

1821-Honduras, Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador, & Nicaragua declare independence from Spanish Empire

1830-First National Negro Convention in PA
-Liverpool & Manchester Railways open

1835-Darwin reaches Galapagos Islands

1851-St. Joseph's U founded in PA

1853-First female minister in US (A. Blackwell)

1862-Confederates take Harpers Ferry

1883-U of T at Austin opens

1894-Japan wins Battle of Pyongyang

1898-National Afro-American Council (Rochester NY)

1900-Boer appeal for intervention in SA

1910-Boers & Afrikaners win 1st general elections in Union of South-Africa

1912-War rerupts in Albania

1914-US Marines leave Vera Cruz

1916-1st wartanks;Battle of the Somme

1917-Russia proclaimed a Republic

1923-Oklahoma Gov. declares "state of siege"

1928-A. Fleming discovers penicillin, while studying influenza

1931-British naval fleet paycut mutiny

1935-Nuremberg Laws enacted: German Jews stripped of citizenship & Nazi Germany adopts swastika

1938-PM Chamberlain visits Adolf Hitler

1940-Winston Churchill visits Royal Air Force 11th
-climax of the Battle of Britain

1941-Nazis kill 800 Jewish women at Shkudvil, Lithuania

1942-USS Wasp torpedoed at Guadalcanal

1944-German battleship Tirpitz bombed
-Roosevelt and Churchill discuss strategy at Octagon Conference
-Soviet troops free Sofia, Bulgaria
-1st Infantry reaches Westwall
-US 28th Infantry division takes Hill 555
-US troops land on Palau & Morotai

1947-Typhoon Kathleen hits Kantō region in Japan

1948- F-86 Sabre sets record aircraft speed (1080kph)

1950-UN land at Inchon
-US land on Wolmi-Do island

1952-European Parliament forms in Strasbourg
- UN turns over Eritrea to Ethiopia

1958-NJ, Commuter train crashes through drawbridge

1959-First Soviet leader to arrive in US (Nikita Khrushchev)

1961-The U.S. resumes underground nuke tests

1962-The Soviet ship Poltava heads toward Cuba

1964-British newspaper "Daily Herald" final edition

1966-1st Nuclear sub launched by British (HMS Resolution)

1967-LBJ urges congress toward gun control

1968-Zond 5 launched (1st lunar fly-around with reentry)

1970-Rotterdam harbor strikes end

1971-Greenpeace founded.

1972-Flight from Gothenburg to Stockholm hijacked.
-4.5 earthquake in N. Illinois.

1974-Flight 706 hijacked
-Market Square Arena in Indianapolis opens

1975-Isle Corsica is divided into two

1976-Soyuz 22 launch

1977-Jimmy Carter meets with 15 record company executives
-U.S. nuclear test at Nevada site

1978-Ali defeats Spinks

1981-1st female justice of SCOTUS

1982-1st issue of "USA Today"

1983-Israeli PM Begin resigns.
-Michael Stewart beaten to death by police (NYC)

1984 -Princess Diana, distant cousin to Winston Churchill, bears a son.

1985-Willie Nelson's Farm Aid concert
-Robert Bork confirmation hearings begin

1986-Bomb attack in Paris

1988-Museum of Moving Image opens (London)

1992-Ted Weiss wins election, despite dying on 14th (NYC)
-Black Wednesday/Sterling Crisis: Soros' Quantum Fund begins selling mass pound sterling, pound crashes next day.

1994-Clintons ultimatum to Haiti's military leaders
-16 citizens beheaded in Algeria

1997-Domain "google. com" registered.

1998-MCI & WorldCom open together after merging

1999-UN approves forces in East Timor.

2000-Summer Olympics open in Sydney

2004-Johnny Ramone dies age 55
-Hurricane Ivan hits Alabama/Florida

2008-The largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history (Lehman Brothers)

2013-Series of Bombings in Iraq
-Coal mine collapse in Afghanistan
-Japan switches off last nuclear reactor

2015-Hungary closes border with Serbia

2017-Parsons Green bombing, London.

2018 Typhoon Mangkhut, category 5, Philippines

2020- Abraham accords signed
-Scientific American's 1st ever presidential endorsement in 175 years

2021-SpaceX launches first all-civilian spaceflight

2024- Man arrested and charged for the attempted assassination of Donald Trump