Uniform Monday Holiday Act
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The Uniform Monday Holiday Act is an Act of Congress that permanently moved two federal holidays in the United States to a Monday, being Washington's Birthday and Memorial Day, and further made Columb
An 1890s poster showing Washington's Birthday as February 22, the date on which it always fell before being changed by the Uniform Monday Holiday Act.
US stamp commemorating the quadricentennial of the landing of Christopher Columbus.
Columbus Day
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Columbus Day is a national holiday in many countries of the Americas and elsewhere, and a federal holiday in the United States, which officially celebrates the anniversary of Christopher Columbus's ar
Uniform Monday Holiday Act
…Congress that permanently moved two federal holidays in the United States to a Monday, being Washington's Birthday and Memorial Day, and further made Columbus Day a federal holiday, also permanently on a Monday. This created long weekends with three days off ending with the holidays, such as Memorial Day Weekend…
First Landing of Columbus on the Shores of the New World; painting by Dióscoro Puebla (1862)
Christopher Columbus (Italian: Cristoforo Colombo), posthumous portrait by Ridolfo Ghirlandaio, c. 1520
Columbus Day Parade in New York City, 2009
The former Christopher Columbus Monument along Paseo de la Reforma in Mexico