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The holiday has received criticism for its lack of inclusiveness for non-Mormons. [25] As a result, a small, growing contingent has started celebrating Pie and Beer Day instead of the traditional Pioneer Day. [26] Pie and Beer day is a play on words: "pie and beer" sounds like "pioneer." Pie and Beer Day was created as a counter culture ...
Texas Independence Day is the celebration of the adoption of the Texas Declaration of Independence on March 2, 1836. With this document, signed by 59 delegates, settlers in Mexican Texas officially declared independence from Mexico and created the Republic of Texas .
4 Holidays and observances. 5 Notes. ... January 3 is the third day of the year in the Gregorian ... 1963 – New Jack, American wrestler (d. 2021) 1964 – Bruce ...
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 ...
January 3. Drinking Straw Day. Festival of Sleep Day. Fruitcake Toss Day. Humiliation Day. International Mind-Body Wellness Day. JRR Tolkien Day. National Chocolate-Covered Cherry Day. January 4 ...
Bold text indicates a public holiday, on which most government agencies and major businesses are closed. January 16: Religious Freedom Day; 3rd Monday in January: Martin Luther King Jr. Federal Holiday [4] 3rd Sunday in January: National Sanctity of Human Life Day; various March/April: Education and Sharing Day (based on Hebrew calendar)
January 14 – Texas surpasses two million cases of COVID-19, becoming the second state to do so after California. [2] January 23 – Garret Miller, a Texas man who participated in the storming of the United States Capitol, is charged for threatening to assassinate U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. [3]
While the holiday is traditionally linked to the Northeast – most notably the 1621 celebration in Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts – Texas has its own surprising connections to Thanksgiving.