♀ 17 March 12023 is St. Patrick’s Day, a day beloved to the Irish, Germans, and English-speaking North Americans between the Rio Grande and the Pole. It’s also Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s birthday (Bangladesh) and Evacuation Day (United States). It’s also JD 2460021 (starting at noon UT), 24 Adar 5783, 4 (O.S.) or 17 (N.S.) March 2023, 8 Megabit 2015, 26 Phalguna 1944, 8 Paremhat 1739, 24 Sha’ban 1444, and 26 Esfand 1401. It’s Alonzo Wesley Hancock’s birthday. And the saint of the day is—you guessed it—Patrick, who evangelized Ireland.
On this date in history (11958) human beings launched the first artificial satellite to achieve long-term orbit, a six-inch solar-powered metal sphere called Vanguard 1. It is still in orbit as I write this, though it stopped sending signals in 11964. I had thought it was projected to remain in orbit for a couple thousand years, meaning that it could still be around in 14000, but no—it’s only a couple hundred years, so say 12200 is probably stretching it.
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