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In the United States there are, strict speaking, no national __1
holiday, for each state must, through legislative enactment or __2
executive proclamation, appoint the day which each holiday is __3
celebrated. Congress and the president may establish legal holidays for the District of Columbia and for federal employees throughout the states and territories; and by long custom, days that receive nationwide observation, such as Christmas, Thanksgiving, Labor __4
Day, Independent Day, and New Year’s Day, are uniformly set __5
apart by all states as legal, or public holidays. In 1968, federal __6
legislation established Columbia Day as a legal holiday for the District of Columbia and for the federal government beginning at __7
1971. The law also provided begun in 1971 federal employees __8
would be granted three-days weekends by observing Washington’s __9
Birthday on the third Monday in February, Memorial Day on the last Monday in May, Columbus Day on the second Monday in October, and Veteran Day on the forth Monday on October. By 1971, most of the states also adopted the new dates. __10