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February 15–21 (3rd Monday) – Washington's Birthday (reincluded because the holiday is not listed under the Florida government holidays) March 20 – April 23 (floating Friday using Computus) – Good Friday; April 2 – Pascua Florida Day; April 26 – Confederate Memorial Day; June 3 – birthday of Jefferson Davis; June 14 – Flag Day
In 1987, Martin Luther King Jr. Day was added as a federal holiday for the third Monday in January, and in that year the Texas Legislature made it an optional state holiday, and in 1991 they made MLK Day an official state holiday. In some years (1987, 1998, 2004, 2009, 2015, 2026) MLK Jr. Day and Confederate Heroes Day fall on the same day.
1966 – A new government is formed in the Republic of the Congo, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye. 1970 – The Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization enters into force. 1981 – Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performs the world's first human open fetal surgery.
In 1926, Congress passed a bill making Armistice Day an annual national holiday. Years later, Alvin J King from Emporia, Kansas, lobbied to have the name changed to Veterans Day.
The advocacy group seeks to expand cities’ official marking of the federal holiday across California’s 58 counties, focusing on cities with populations of 100,000 or more. “To have a law ...
This year's Capitol holiday tree lighting is the state's 92nd. It was also held virtually in 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic, when in-person gatherings of all kinds were discouraged around the ...
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This year, Easter falls on Sunday, March 31. Find out more about the 2024 religious holiday here, including Easter store hours.