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Description:On June 28, 1968, the United States Congress passed the Uniform Holidays Bill, which moved three holidays from their traditional dates to a...

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Description:Many of the states of the U.S. South refused to celebrate Decoration Day, due to lingering hostility towards the Union Army and also because there...

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Description:According to Professor David Blight of the Yale University History Department, the first memorial day was observed in 1865 by liberated slaves at...

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Description:On May 5, 1868, in his capacity as commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, a veterans' organization, Logan issued a proclamation that...