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An 1890s poster showing Washington's Birthday as February 22, the date on which it always fell before being changed by the Uniform Monday Holiday Act.. The Uniform Monday Holiday Act (Pub. L. 90–363, 82 Stat. 250, enacted June 28, 1968) is an Act of Congress that permanently moved two federal holidays in the United States to a Monday, being Washington's Birthday and Memorial Day, and further ...
The executive action was signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson on September 24, 1965, establishing requirements for non-discriminatory practices in hiring and employment on the part of U.S. government contractors. As amended, it prohibited "federal contractors and subcontractors and federally-assisted construction contractors and subcontractors ...
Making the Vice President of the United States the Chairman of the President's Council on Recreation and Natural Beauty March 29, 1968 277 11403: Providing for the restoration of law and order in the Washington Metropolitan Area April 5, 1968 278 11404: Providing for the restoration of law and order in the State of Illinois April 7, 1968 279 11405
When U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson took the stage at Howard University in June of 1965, he had already signed the Civil Rights act into law, and he said he expected to sign the Voting Rights ...
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Texas law designates that the state businesses be "partially staffed" on the following holidays. These holidays can be replaced with an optional holiday per the state employee's choice, but will give up one of these in lieu of the optional holiday. January 19 – Confederate Heroes Day; March 2 – Texas Independence Day; April 21 – San ...
July 2 – President Johnson signs H.R. 6041 into law in the Cabinet Room. President Johnson says the legislation updates the Davis–Bacon Act and "sensibly provides that wage determinations shall, in addition to cash wages, take account of prevailing benefits such as medical and hospital care, pensions and workmen's compensation, unemployment ...
More than 135 years after Ohio passed a law to curb vigilante justice, AG Dave Yost is warning that protestors could run afoul of that same law. Ohio passed a law to stop vigilantes in 1889. Now ...