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The Milwaukee music festival will host Juneteenth programming for the first time on opening night. The festival in 2025 also will run on July 4. Milwaukee's Summerfest announces 2025 dates, will ...
Juneteenth became one of five date-specific federal holidays along with New Year's Day (January 1), Independence Day (July 4), Veterans Day (November 11), and Christmas Day (December 25). Juneteenth is the first new federal holiday since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was declared a holiday in 1986.
Date Name First celebrated Remarks third Monday of January: Martin Luther King Jr. Day: 1986: The birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. [1] June 19: Juneteenth National Independence Day
Other federal holidays are less widely observed by businesses. These include: Martin Luther King Jr. Day (January 15–21, floating Monday) Washington's Birthday (February 15–21, floating Monday) Juneteenth (June 19) Columbus Day (October 8–14, floating Monday) Veterans Day (November 11) Established in 2021, Juneteenth is the newest federal ...
For more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been sacred to many Black communities. It marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed ...
Juneteenth will be marked on Wednesday, June 19, 2024. Unlike other federal holidays, such as Memorial Day and Labor Day, that are observed on a specific day of the week, Juneteenth is celebrated ...
The holiday is observed on the fourth Thursday in November. On the day after this holiday, the stock market trading session ends three hours early. December 25 (Fixed date) Christmas Day: 1870 The most widely celebrated holiday of the Christian year, Christmas is observed as a commemoration of the birth of Jesus Christ. Commonly celebrated by ...
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