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annual. Stephen Foster Memorial Day is a United States Federal Observance Day observed on January 13. According to 36 U.S.C. ยง 140, Stephen Foster Memorial Day celebrates the life of American songwriter Stephen Foster. [1] The date commemorates date that Foster died. The law took effect on November 2, 1966, and the day was first observed in ...
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 ...
Planes, trains and aggravation: 38 million people expected to travel this Memorial Day weekend. 11 spectacular photos of jets spitting fire with their afterburners. Declassified photos show the US ...
t. e. The International Holocaust Remembrance Day, or the International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, is an international memorial day on 27 January that commemorates the victims of the Holocaust, which resulted in the genocide of one third of the Jewish people, along with countless members of other minorities by Nazi Germany ...
Memorial Day falls on Monday, May 27 this year. For many people, the last Monday in May serves as the unofficial start to summer, but the true meaning behind the federal holiday is to honor and ...
Confederate Memorial Day (called Confederate Heroes Day in Texas and Florida, and Confederate Decoration Day in Tennessee) is a holiday observed in several Southern U.S. states on various dates since the end of the American Civil War. The holiday was originally publicly presented as a day to remember the estimated 258,000 Confederate soldiers ...
Whether actual flowers are plucked for the occasion or a fabric or crepe paper version is used, the meaning of the red poppy remains clear: It symbolizes the memory of fallen soldiers. Much like ...
Opening date. September 27, 1910. The Pennsylvania State Memorial[ 2] is a monument in Gettysburg National Military Park that commemorates the 34,530 Pennsylvania soldiers who fought in the July 1 to 3, 1863 Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. The memorial stands along Cemetery Ridge, the Union battle line on July 2, 1863. [ 3]