March 17 - Irish Light

 This is an easy day to pick something special, especially for those of us who play the pipes.  Interesting that it's a day where they want us to play our Scottish bagpipes for an Irish day.

St. Patrick's Day comes from the fact that today was supposed to be the day that St. Patrick was either supposed to have given a sermon about the shamrock being like the trinity or the day he was captured by pirates and taken to Ireland.

It's also the day that in 1905 Albert Einstein published his theory on the "Quantum Theory of Light".

The idea was that when needed, light behaves like a particle, and at other times it behaves like a wave

March 14 - Smart folks commonly know it as pie

How many can you do?

3.14159265358946267338238... at least that's what I remember, but I always order the put the 4626 and it's not 733 it's 793... anyways, that number is important and if you put the numbers as 3 / 14 that's the Imperial way to say March 14th.

Which is today, so today is known as Pi Day.

Interestingly enough it's also sometimes celebrated on July 22, which is 22/7 ... which is the rough approximation of pi.

Also on this day - the 2nd Monday of March - Canada celebrates Commonwealth Day.

Well, as much as Canadians 'celebrate' anything.

It's also Albert Einstein's birthday (he would have been 143), and also the day that Stephen Hawking passed away in 2018.