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Juneteenth is a federal holiday in the United States. For decades, activists and congress members (led by many African Americans) proposed legislation, advocated for, and built support for state and national observances. During his campaign for president in June 2020, Joe Biden publicly celebrated the holiday. [125]
June 17, 2024 at 4:30 AM. Alexis Baker. Juneteenth, a commemoration of freedom for the last African American slaves in Texas, will be celebrated nationwide this week. It was on June 19, 1865 that ...
Juneteenth, observed on June 19, commemorates the announcement of the abolition of slavery in Texas in June 1865, and more generally the emancipation of enslaved African-Americans. The name is a portmanteau of June and nineteenth [38] [39] and has been a federal holiday since 2021. Some states and cities have additional holidays honoring ...
Memorial Day (originally known as Decoration Day) [1] is one of the federal holidays in the United States for honoring and mourning the U.S. military personnel who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces. [2] [3] It is observed on the last Monday of May. Memorial Day is also considered the unofficial beginning of summer in the ...
On June 17, 2021, President Joe Biden signed the law that made June 19th a federal holiday. Also called " Juneteenth National Independence Day," Juneteenth commemorates the June 19, 1865 belated announcement in Texas that enslaved people in the Confederate states that were in rebellion (1861-65) had been freed by President Abraham Lincoln as of ...
19 June: United States: Federal holiday commemorates the abolition of slavery in Texas. Canada Day: 1 July: Canada: Celebration of the date of the Confederation of Canada. Formerly known as Dominion Day, as this was the day on which Canada became a self-governing Dominion within the British Empire. Independence Day
Steak and Blowjob Day (sometimes Steak & BJ Day or Steak and Knobber Day) [1] is a satirical unofficial holiday [2] [3] [4] created in the United States as a male response to Valentine's Day and celebrated a month later, on March 14. [5] On the day, women are purportedly supposed to cook a filet steak for and perform fellatio on a man in ...
The following holidays are observed by the majority of US businesses with paid time off: New Year's Day, New Year's Eve, [2] Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, the day after known as Black Friday, Christmas Eve and Christmas. There are also numerous holidays on the state and local level that are observed to varying degrees.