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  2. San Jacinto Day - Wikipedia

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    It is an official "partial staffing holiday" in the State of Texas (state offices are not closed on this date). An annual festival, which includes a reenactment, is held on the site of the battle. The Sabine Volunteers, a reenactment group from East Texas, participate in the San Jacinto Reenactment annually.

  3. Juneteenth - Wikipedia

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    As of 2023, 24 of these states and the District of Columbia have also made it a paid holiday for state or district workers. Federal government employees in all states are covered by the federal holiday. Texas was the first state to recognize the date by enacted law, in 1980.

  4. Holidays with paid time off in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Texas law designates that the state businesses be "partially staffed" on the following holidays. These holidays can be replaced with an optional holiday per the state employee's choice, but will give up one of these in lieu of the optional holiday. January 19 – Confederate Heroes Day; March 2 – Texas Independence Day; April 21 – San ...

  5. Once, Texas had its own ‘States’ Rights Thanksgiving Day,’ to ...

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    November 20, 2023 at 5:52 PM. This is a month when Texas used to celebrate Thanksgiving twice. ... now Paschal — signed a new set of Texas holidays into law, moving the state Thanksgiving.

  6. Confederate Memorial Day - Wikipedia

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    In 1987, Martin Luther King Jr. Day was added as a federal holiday for the third Monday in January, and in that year the Texas Legislature made it an optional state holiday, and in 1991 they made MLK Day an official state holiday. In some years (1987, 1998, 2004, 2009, 2015, 2026) MLK Jr. Day and Confederate Heroes Day fall on the same day.

  7. US federal holidays 2023: Full list and calendar dates

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    The list of US federal holidays is made up of 11 days of significance that Americans recognise and celebrate

  8. Ring in the holidays with Texas State Parks

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    Nov. 17—AUSTIN — Texas State Parks is kicking off the holiday season with close to 100 special seasonal activities happening across the state. Starting this month, visitors of all ages can ...

  9. List of African-American holidays - Wikipedia

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    The following are African-American federal holidays in the United States: Date Name ... Texas, at the end of the ... 2023: Iowa (2023) [14] Municipal holidays