CHAOS: noun - disorder; in physics, behavior so unpredictable as to appear random, owing to great sensitivity to small changes in conditions.
Disorder prevails, as well it should, because it is what is going down (but don't forget fractals and taffy machines). Order, where not meaning slavish regimentation of humans, is an artifice, a seeming systemization imposed on reality by those too lazy to search for things where they may be found. The seeming efficiencies thereby created come at the cost of discovering new and unexpected things while seeking the ordinary. It is arguable that this voluntary sacrifice of possible encounters with the extraordinary is non-beneficial.

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On this day in history:

0694 – At the Seventeenth Council of Toledo, Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accused Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery.

1520 – About 100 people were executed for heresy in the Stockholm Bloodbath

1620 – Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

1791 – Foundation of the Dublin Society of United Irishmen.

1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte led the Coup of 18 Brumaire

1867 – Tokugawa shogunate gave power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.

1913 – The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, destroyed 19 ships and kills more than 250 people.

1918 – Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated after the German Revolution, and Germany was proclaimed a Republic.

1923 – Police and government troops crushed the Beer Hall Putsch in Bavaria.

1935 – The CIO was founded by eight unions belonging to the AFL

1953 – Cambodia gained independence from France really pissing off Alan Dulles.

1965 – Several U.S. states and parts of Canada were hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours

1967 – The first issue of Rolling Stone magazine was published.

1970 – The Supremes voted 6–3 against hearing a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.

1979 – The NORAD computers erroneously detected a massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early-warning radars, the alert was cancelled.

1989 – East Germany opened checkpoints in the Berlin Wall

1994 – The chemical element darmstadtium was discovered.

1998 – A U.S. federal judge ordered 37 U.S. brokerage houses to pay US$1.03 billion to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for price fixing.

1998 – Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, was completely abolished

2004 – Firefox 1.0 was released.

2007 – The German Bundestag passed the controversial data retention bill

2011 - The first national test of the Emergency Alert System is activated in the United States at 2:00 p.m. EST. Does anybody remember what color it was?

2014 – A non-binding self-determination consultation was held in Catalonia, Spain freaked out.

2023 – U.S. surgeons at NYU Langone Health announced the world's first whole eye transplant.

Some people who were born on this day:

Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this - Almighty God, grant that two times two not equal four.

also

We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars.

~~ Ivan Turgenev

1801 – Gail Borden, surveyor and publisher who invented condensed milk
1818 – Ivan Turgenev, author and playwright
1850 – Louis Lewin, pharmacologist and academic
1853 – Stanford White, architect who co-founded McKim, Mead & White
1854 – Maud Howe Elliott, activist and author
1871 – Florence R. Sabin, American medical scientist
1877 – Muhammad Iqbal, philosopher, poet, and politician
1885 – Theodor Kaluza, mathematician and physicist
1885 – Hermann Weyl, mathematician, physicist, and philosopher
1891 – Louisa E. Rhine, botanist and parapsychologist
1914 – Hedy Lamarr, actress and inventor
1918 – Florence Chadwick, prodigious long-distance open water swimmer
1920 – Philip G. Hodge, engineer and academic
1922 – Imre Lakatos, mathematician, philosopher, and academic
1924 – Robert Frank, photographer and director
1928 – Anne Sexton, poet and academic
1931 – Valery Shumakov, surgeon and transplantologist
1934 – Carl Sagan, astronomer, astrophysicist, and cosmologist
1936 – Mary Travers, singer and songwriter
1941 – Tom Fogerty, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1946 – Benny Mardones, singer and songwriter
1948 – Joe Bouchard, bass player and songwriter
1948 – Michel Pagliaro, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1954 – Aed Carabao, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1960 – Demetra Plakas, drummer
1960 – Sarah Franklin, anthropologist and academic
1961 – Jill Dando, English journalist (d. 1999)
1969 – Allison Wolfe, singer and songwriter, riot girl
1970 – Susan Tedeschi, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1972 – Corin Tucker, singer, songwriter ,and guitarist
1973 – Alyson Court, Canadian actress and producer
1978 – Even Ormestad, bass player and producer

Some people who died on this day:

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

~~ Dylan thomas

1492 – Jami, poet
1623 – William Camden, historian and topographer
1953 – Dylan Thomas, poet and author
1958 – Dorothy Canfield Fisher, educational reformer, social activist, and author
1997 – Carl Gustav Hempel, philosopher from the Vienna and the Berlin Circle
2004 – Iris Chang, historian, journalist, and author
2006 – Ed Bradley, journalist
2006 – Ellen Willis, journalist and activist
2008 – Miriam Makeba, singer and activist; Mama Africa
2013 – Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre, free jazz saxophonist
2015 – Andy White, drummer (and beatle)
2017 – Chuck Mosley, singer and songwriter
2024 – Lou Donaldson, saxophonist

Some Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:

Carl Sagan Day
National Chaos Never Dies Day
World Freedom Day (United States) Now THAT's Funny!
World Orphans Day

Today's Tunes

Chaos Pt1

Chaos Pt2

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Mary Travers

Tom Fogarty

Aed Carabao

Demetra Plakas

Susan Tedeschi

Corin Tucker

Miriam Makeba

Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre

Andy White

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Lou Donaldson

CODA:

Ok, it's an open thread, so it's up to you folks now. What's on your mind?

Cross posted from http://caucus99percent.com

Open Thread, chaos, Carl Sagan, Orphans, Mary Travers, Aed Carabao, Miriam Makeba, Susan Tedeschi, Dylan Thomas, Ivan Turgenev, Tom Fogarty