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1996 – The Montana Freemen surrender after an 81–day standoff with FBI agents. 1997 – A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to the death penalty for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. 2002 – The United States of America withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
On June 17, 2021, President Joe Biden signed the law that made June 19th a federal holiday. Officially designated as " Juneteenth National Independence Day ", Juneteenth commemorates the belated June 19, 1865, announcement that enslaved people in the Confederate states had been freed by President Abraham Lincoln as of January 1, 1863.
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 ...
June 13, 2024 at 2:02 AM. ... When is Flag Day 2024? Flag Day is on June 14 every year. In 2024, Flag Day is on Friday. ... Is Flag Day a federal holiday? No. Flag Day is not considered a federal ...
Jan. 2025 holiday schedule: MLK Jr. Day, Inauguration Day, day of mourning, National Days When is Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2025? Martin Luther King Jr. Day occurs on Monday, Jan. 20.
The week of June 14 (June 09–15, 2024; June 08–14, 2025; June 14–20, 2026) is designated as "National Flag Week." During National Flag Week, the president will issue a proclamation "urging the people to observe the day as the anniversary of the adoption on June 14, 1777, by the Continental Congress of the Stars and Stripes as the official ...
Flag Day marks the day, 246 years ago, when Betsy Ross' creation of the Stars & Stripes as our national American flag. Here's how to display a U.S. flag.
Juneteenth became one of five date-specific federal holidays along with New Year's Day (January 1), Independence Day (July 4), Veterans Day (November 11), and Christmas Day (December 25). Juneteenth is the first new federal holiday since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was declared a holiday in 1986.