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Mon, Feb 19
|USA
Presidents Day
Did you know that although the holiday is most often called “Presidents’ Day,” the observed federal holiday is officially called “Washington’s Birthday.”
Time & Location
Feb 19, 2024, 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM
USA
About the event
Washington's Birthday was celebrated on February 22nd until well into the 20th Century. However, in 1968 Congress passed the Monday Holiday Law to ‘provide uniform annual observances of certain legal public holidays on Mondays.’ One of the provisions of this act changed the observance of Washington's Birthday from February 22nd to the third Monday in February. Ironically, this guaranteed that the holiday would never be celebrated on Washington's actual birthday, as the third Monday in February cannot fall any later than February 21.
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