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
On October 14, 1901, General Wood as Military Governor of Cuba issued an order for the holding of a general election throughout the island on December 31, that day to be a legal holiday.
From The History of Cuba, vol. 4 by Johnson, Willis Fletcher
