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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 ...
George Washington was born on February 22, 1732, [a] at Popes Creek in Westmoreland County, Virginia. [3] He was the first of six children of Augustine and Mary Ball Washington. [4] His father was a justice of the peace and a prominent public figure who had four additional children from his first marriage to Jane Butler. [5]
October 21 – 1975 World Series: US baseball team the Boston Red Sox defeat the Cincinnati Reds in Game 6 off Carlton Fisk's 12th-inning home run in one of the most famous World Series games ever played. [7] The following day, the series ends with Game 7 victory by the Reds, in a broadcast that breaks records for a televised sporting event.
Americans began celebrating former President George Washington's birthday shortly after his death in 1799. Washington's birthday became a federal holiday, observed on Feb. 22, in 1879.
When Congress deliberated the Uniform Monday Holiday Bill in 1968, the name switch from Washington’s Birthday to Presidents’ Day was discussed. The motivation behind the new title was to ...
George Washington was posthumously appointed to the grade of General of the Armies of the United States by the congressional joint resolution Public Law 94-479 passed January 19, 1976, with an effective appointment date of July 4, 1976. [27] This restored Washington's position as the highest-ranking military officer in US history. [Note 1]
Washington's Birthday has been a federal holiday in the United States since 1879. ... Bust of George Washington (1975), by Avard Fairbanks, George Washington University.
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