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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.
Jan. 1, 2024, marks 161 years since the day the Emancipation Proclamation was announced by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863. At the time, the Civil War had been raging for three years.
On Emancipation Day, Sept. 22, 1898, the Muncie Daily Times wrote that “on the twenty-second day of September, 1862, Abraham Lincoln, in his capacity as president of the United States, affixed ...
April 16 – (Emancipation Day) – District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act. [citation needed] May 9 – General David Hunter declares emancipation in Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina. [citation needed] May 19 – Lincoln rescinds Hunter's order. [citation needed] July 17 – Confiscation Act of 1862 frees confiscated slaves.
The Spanish first began to settle in The Californias in 1769, founding the first Spanish mission, Missión San Diego de Alcalá. [11] They also established four military installations throughout California, including el Presidio Real de San Carlos de Monterey, el Presidio Real de San Diego, el Presidio Real de San Francisco, and el Presidio Real de Santa Bárbara.
(Reuters) - Juneteenth, a day that marks the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans, is always observed on June 19 each year. It became a U.S. federal holiday in 2021, following the signing of a ...
For more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been sacred to many Black communities. It marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed ...
1 August, Emancipation Day in Jamaica is a public holiday and part of a week-long cultural celebration, during which Jamaicans also celebrate Jamaica Independence Day on 6 August 1962. Both 1 August and 6 August are public holidays. Emancipation Day had stopped being observed as a nation holiday in 1962 at the time of independence. [24]