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Patriots' Grave in the Old Burying Ground cemetery, Arlington, Massachusetts Patriots' Day (Patriot's Day in Maine) [1] is an annual event, formalized as a legal holiday or a special observance day in six U.S. states, commemorating the battles of Lexington, Concord, and Menotomy, the inaugural battles of the American Revolutionary War.
As the British fleet approached New York Bay in August, 1776, Seixas preached an emotional sermon in English, warning that that day's services might be the last held in the historic edifice. His Patriot loyalties provoked Shearith Israel to seal its entrance as the British approached, and Mendes Seixas left New York rather than remain under ...
The following observances have been mandated or authorized by Congress or the President, but are no longer proclaimed or observed on a regular basis. March 21 (1982–1988): Afghanistan Day [ 55 ] June 14 (1982–1992): Baltic Freedom Day
side-wheel paddle-boat steamship S.S. Jane Moseley, built in 1873, renamed as Minerva 1911–1932 S.S. Minerva, (built 1873 as S.S. Jane Moseley), seen abandoned 63 years later in the boat basin off Shooters Island, Newark Bay, (), near North Shore of Staten Island, (New York City / New York state), (photo taken c. 1936)
An African American Union soldier of the American Civil War, seated, in a studio portrait, circa 1863. Credit - Getty Images. O ver a century ago, President Woodrow Wilson established Veterans Day ...
In the meantime, a message that men were shot in Boston by the British was carried through Connecticut to New York by September 5 and the next day to Philadelphia, where the First Continental Congress was held on September 6. [9] The Congress, with Joseph Palmer, planned for a network of couriers to transport messages throughout the colonies. A ...
President Donald Trump signed a proclamation Sunday declaring Feb. 9 as the inaugural “Gulf of America Day.”. While flying over the Gulf of Mexico on his way to the Super Bowl in New Orleans ...
Each year on the third Monday in January, the U.S. commemorates the life and work of Martin Luther King Jr. with a federal holiday.Coinciding annually with the civil rights leader's birthday, MLK ...