legal holiday
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The new version would designate the actual day of Lunar New Year as a legal holiday.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 17, 2023
President Ronald Regan signed Dr. King’s birthday into federal law in 1983, but by 1990, Montana, New Hampshire and Arizona still had not made the day a legal holiday.
From New York Times • Jun. 18, 2022
By 1973, King’s hometown of Atlanta had designated the day as a legal holiday.
From Washington Times • Jan. 24, 2021
Although King was assassinated in 1968, legislation designating the third Monday in January—near his Jan. 15 birthday—as a legal holiday to honor him did not pass until 1983.
From Time • Jan. 13, 2017
The King of Siam has made Sunday a legal holiday and is frightening his conservative subjects by his revolutionary changes, while Korea is changing with kaleidoscopic rapidity.
From New Forces in Old China An Inevitable Awakening by Brown, Arthur Judson
