Happy Presidents' Day!

 

Today is a day used to commemorate all the individuals who have been given the title President of the United States in our country’s history. We casually call this day that occurs every 3^rd Monday in February, Presidents’ Day. But in actuality if you look back at the history of this holiday. It’s the combination of 2 holidays in one. George Washington’s Birthday is actually on February 22nd, and was celebrated on that particular day since 1879. But Abraham Lincoln’s birthday also used to be celebrated separately as a federal holiday on February 12th throughout the years since 1866. One year after his assassination by the famous stage actor John Wilkes Booth. The Uniform Holidays Act of 1968 is what shifted Washington and Lincoln’s birthdays to the same day and combined the 2 into one holiday. Instead of 2 separate holidays like it had been prior to 1968. However, there has been no law officially changing the actual name from what it had been, which was Washington’s Birthday to Presidents’ Day. But all Americans as I said in this modern time, on their own refer to it as simply Presidents’ Day which allows for the remembrance of every president to be encompassed into one day.

Happy Martin Luther King Day!

 

Today is the 3^rd Monday in January, and has since 1986 been observed as a federal holiday in the United States of America after the actual legislation passed in 1983. Under the Uniform Holidays Act, Martin Luther King’s birthday was finally recognized as a federal holiday. Even though, he was actually born on January 15, 1929. The day is a day used to honor, commemorate, and celebrate Dr. King’s legacy, and accomplishments. The famed Reverend, and Civil Rights leader, who led peaceful protests since the 1950s up until his assassination in 1968, for the equality and basic civil rights for Americans of brown skinned, and black skinned African descent, that are supposed to be guaranteed to all Americans of every race, creed, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic background, and physical stature under the Declaration of Independence, and United States Constitution. Some of his accomplishments of significance to name a few: organizing the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955, the marches beginning in Selma, Alabama, and ending in Montgomery, Alabama between March 7th-March 25th, 1965. And most significantly, the famous “I Have a Dream” speech in front of the Great Emancipator-and-Chief Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC on August 28th, 1963.