Martin Luther King, Jr. Day a federal holiday. However, it took 15 years before legislation was passed Then, it was another three years before the legislation and MLK Jr.
Day were in effect By merging the Lincoln and Washington birthday celebration into one holiday it made room in the federal calendar to add Martin Luther King day without impacting the work time in labor contracts and other employment agreements.
This gets more complicated because later many companies offered people either the Columbus Holiday or MLK holiday at an option, but not both. Lastly the Federal Holidays only impact federal workers and federal facilities. The holidays are actually established by the individual states.
This also impacted the roll out of MLK day. It's not called Presidents Day simply because it is Washington's birthday Memorial Day. You're wrong. We used to have two holidays, Lincoln's birthday and Washington's birthday. Some talking head decided having two holidays in the month of February was not necessary, and the birthday holidays were rolled together to become one Hoilday simply called Presidents Day, and it would always be on a Monday to give some workers a 3 day weekend.
It was supposed to honor Lincoln and Washington both. Please study your history, I was alive when this happened and I remember it. And no mention of Abraham Lincoln, who is also included in this holiday. Years and years ago, public school kids would get off for the holidays, whereas parochial school kids didn't The actual reason the date was set in was because of Martin Luther King's birthday being celebrated in January.
Prior to that, both Feb 12 and Feb 22 were holidays. Feb 12 for Lincoln and Feb 22 for Washington. In order to do away with one of the days, they combined the two and came up with President's day. It was all done because of the addition of MLK day in January. All of the 50 states did not all observe the Holiday until the year It was not even brought up in Congress until , almost 11 years after the Uniform Monday Holiday Act was enacted. George Washington was reincarnated as Robert E.
Lee in what might be the world's most obvious example of a 'direct reincarnation'! Alexandria, Virginia was also home to young Robert E. Lee whose father - 'Light-Horse' Harry Lee - was perhaps the general's best-friend.
It was he who delivered the famous eulogy of Washington, "First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen". Robert E. Lee's father-in-law was George Washington Custis who was the step-grandson and adopted son of George Washington. The title debate lasted over three weeks, amounting to one of the first major disputes between the House and the Senate over the language of the Constitution.
Arkansas, for instance, celebrates Washington as well as civil rights activist Daisy Gatson Bates. That said, the popularity of the apostrophe-less form Presidents Day has increased in recent years—this is the style favored by the Associated Press Stylebook and followed by most newspapers and magazines. Nobody wants that. Feedback See Today's Synonym. Word of the Day. Meanings Meanings. Previous "Breach" vs. While most states have adopted Washington's Birthday, a dozen of them officially celebrate Presidents' Day.
A number of the states that celebrate Washington's Birthday also recognize Lincoln's Birthday as a separate legal holiday. Washington's Birthday has a history as old as our country. It was celebrated publicly for the first time in the late 18th century, while George Washington was still president.
Washington's Birthday became official in , when President Chester Arthur signed a bill making it a federal holiday. Meanwhile, there was President Lincoln's birthday on Feb. In , Congress passed the Monday Holidays Act, which moved the official observance of Washington's birthday from Feb.
Some reformers had wanted to change the name of the holiday as well, to Presidents' Day, in honor of both Lincoln and Washington, but that proposal was rejected by Congress, and the holiday remained officially Washington's Birthday.
Nevertheless, there was a popular misconception that the day had been officially renamed, a misconception only reinforced by the fact that the third Monday in February can only occur between Feb. This means that the holiday is always after Lincoln's birthday and before Washington's birthday, without ever coinciding with either.
Furthermore, some states which had previously celebrated Lincoln's Birthday dropped the observance after the federal holiday reforms, supporting the notion that the two presidential birthdays had been combined. While the name change has never been authorized by Congress, it has gained a strong hold on the public consciousness, and is generally used on calendars, in advertising, and even by many government agencies.
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