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The King's Birthday match (pictured in 2011) is an Australian rules football game held annually on the King's Birthday holiday in Victoria. Norfolk Island celebrates Bounty Day on 8 June, so King's Birthday is held on the Monday after the second Saturday in June. [6] Christmas Island has other holidays and does not hold a King's Birthday ...
The 2024 King's Birthday Honours are appointments by some of the 15 Commonwealth realms of King Charles III to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. The Birthday Honours are awarded as part of the King's Official Birthday celebrations during the month of June. [1] [2]
In Arkansas: it was known as "Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthday and Robert E. Lee's Birthday" from 1985 to 2017. Legislation in March 2017 changed the name of the state holiday to "Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthday" and moved the commemoration of Lee to October. In Idaho: "Martin Luther King Jr.–Idaho Human Rights Day". [28]
The 2024 Trooping the Colour ceremony was held on Saturday 15 June to celebrate the official birthday of King Charles III.. Apart from being Charles' second Trooping the Colour ceremony since his accession to the throne, the 2024 ceremony occurred shortly after he had returned to his official duties after receiving a cancer diagnosis, and while his treatment was ongoing.
Trooping the Colour, Horseguards Parade, Central London, June 2013. Trooping the Colour is a ceremonial event performed every year on Horse Guards Parade in London, United Kingdom, by regiments of Household Division, to celebrate the official birthday of the British sovereign. [1]
The 2024 King's Birthday Honours for Australia were announced on 10 June 2024 by the Governor-General, David Hurley. [1] [2]The Birthday Honours are appointments by some of the 15 Commonwealth realms of King Charles III to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries.
United States House of Representatives vote on the bill United States Senate vote on the bill. During the 90th Session of Congress following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968, Senator Edward Brooke and Representatives John Conyers and Charles Samuel Joelson introduced multiple bills that would create a holiday to honor King on either January 15 or April 4, but none ...
This was the first honours list to include appointments to the renamed King's Service Order (formerly the Queen's Service Order) and award of the associated King's Service Medal (previously the Queen's Service Medal), following the death of Elizabeth II and the accession of Charles III in 2022. [1] The honours were announced on 3 June 2024. [2 ...