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In Connecticut, Missouri and Illinois, while Washington's Birthday is a federal holiday, Lincoln's Birthday is still a state holiday, falling on February 12 regardless of the day of the week. California still lists Lincoln's Birthday as a holiday, [1] but as of 2009 no longer gives State employees a paid holiday on February 12. [15]
The Lincoln Home National Historic Site will mark Lincoln's birthday with free events in the Visitor Center, 426 S. Seventh St., on Saturday and Sunday. ... can pick up a free cup of coffee and a ...
Workers for the State of Illinois, Sangamon County, and courts get Lincoln's birthday and Presidents Day off.
Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, the second child of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks Lincoln, in a log cabin on Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky. [2] He was a descendant of Samuel Lincoln, an Englishman who migrated from Hingham, Norfolk, to its namesake, Hingham, Massachusetts, in 1638.
A Lincoln Day Dinner (sometimes called Lincoln Dinner) is an annual celebration of the Republican Party and a fundraising event for Republican Party affiliated organizations at the county level. Traditionally, it is held in February or March depending on the county, and sometimes on Lincoln's Birthday (February 12), although it can be held on ...
Because Washington's birthday is also close to former President Abraham Lincoln's birthday on Feb. 12, Presidents Day is often used as a way to celebrate all of the U.S. presidents.
An 1890s poster showing Washington's Birthday as February 22, the date on which it always fell before being changed by the Uniform Monday Holiday Act.. The Uniform Monday Holiday Act (Pub. L. 90–363, 82 Stat. 250, enacted June 28, 1968) is an Act of Congress that permanently moved two federal holidays in the United States to a Monday, being – Washington's Birthday and Memorial Day – and ...
The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation is the successor organization of the U.S. Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission (ALBC), which was created by Congress and the President of the United States to plan the commemoration of Abraham Lincoln’s 200th birthday in 2009. The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission sunset on April 30, 2010 [1]