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Description:The official birthplace of Memorial Day is Waterloo, New York.

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Description:The alternative name of "Memorial Day" was first used in 1882, but did not become more common until after World War II, and was not declared the...

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Description:The change moved Memorial Day from its traditional May 30 date to the last Monday in May.

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Description:The holidays included Washington's Birthday (which evolved into Presidents' Day), Veterans Day, and Memorial Day.

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Description:General Logan had been impressed by the way the South honored their dead with a special day and decided the Union needed a similar day.

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Description:The village was credited with being the birthplace because it observed the day on May 5, 1866, and each year thereafter, and because it is likely...

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Description:Logan had been the principal speaker in a citywide memorial observation on April 29, 1866, at a cemetery in Carbondale, Illinois, an event that...