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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 ...
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]
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 ...
Flag Day is a holiday celebrated on June 14 in the United States. It commemorates the adoption of the flag of the United States on June 14, 1777 by resolution of the Second Continental Congress. [ 1] The Flag Resolution stated "That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen ...
Until June 30, 2014, there were 19 public holidays in Puerto Rico. As a result of a new Commonwealth law, after July 1, 2014, the Commonwealth government consolidated three of its former holidays ( Luis Muñoz Rivera , José Celso Barbosa , and Luis Muñoz Marín ) into just one called Día de los Próceres Puertorriqueños (The Day of ...
Weekly observances in June 2024. June 1 to 7: National CPR and AED Awareness Week, Stepparents’ Week. June 1 to 9: National Fishing and Boating Week. June 2 to 8: National Garden Week, National ...
June 19 is the 170th day of the year ... Juneteenth officially became a federal holiday in the United States. ... 2014 – Oskar-Hubert Dennhardt, ...
June holidays and observances in 2024 include Father's Day, Juneteenth, Flag Day, and Eid al-Adha. See a calendar of the special June days worth celebrating.