Mr. President, What's In A Name?
Welcome to the country's most confusing holiday
We ran this a year ago today, and since the info within remains accurate, we're offering it up again today. Happy Presidents Day! Quick, what's today? Presidents Day, the federal holiday that's probably known more for car dealership specials and being the driving force behind schools' winter break than for anything else, right? But technically, in the eyes of the U.S. government, it's not. The federal holiday introduced as Washington's Birthday in 1885 is still called Washington's Birthday. To make matters more confusing, today isn't actually Washington's Birthday, and the holiday now never falls on his real birthday; he was born Feb. 22, 1732 (and even that's not quite true, since the calendar observed by the English colonies switched …
Mark Wendell
3:37 pm on Tuesday, February 21, 2012
@ beach_n8iv, yes it would but it will never never happen. In the USA people hurt each other at Wal*Mart for a deal on a TV. Low values. I would not shop on that day mostly because I feel bad that these people have to work. And before someone says they have a choice to work I can bet you at Wal*Mart they don't. more ›