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Martin Luther King Jr. Day was signed into law by President Ronald Reagan and first officially observed as a federal holiday Jan. 17, 1986. It commemorates a civil rights leader who advocated peaceful resistance as a means of achieving equality under the law between all races. He gave his life for the cause when struck by an assassin s bullet at the Lorraine Motel (now the National Civil Rights Museum) in 1968 at Memphis, Tennessee.