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Presidents Day 2021: Why Aren t We Celebrating Washington s Birthday On His Actual Birthday?
02/15/21 AT 7:20 AM US President Donald Trump will preside over a night of fireworks on July 3, 2020 the eve of the July 4th holiday at Mount Rushmore in South Dakota Photo: AFP / Kerem Yucel
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Presidents Day is officially called Washington s Birthday and is celebrated on the third Monday of every February
Washington s Birthday became popularly known as Presidents Day after it was moved as part of the Uniform Monday Holiday Act
The act required federal holidays to be moved from specific dates to a series of predetermined Mondays
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On 2/15/21 at 6:00 AM EST
Presidents Day has long been associated with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, yet it never falls on either s actual birthday. In fact, two other presidents were also born in February William Henry Harrison and Ronald Reagan and their birthdays never fall on the holiday either. That s because Presidents Day is celebrated the third Monday of every February, which is either too early or too late to ever line up with any actual presidents birthday. But it wasn t always this way.
Presidents Day began life as Washington s Birthday in honor of our first commander-in-chief and was celebrated on his actual birthday of February 22. Though his birthday was already a day of remembrance following his 1799 death, it was first recognized in a holiday capacity in 1879 for government offices in Washington, D.C. before all federal offices began marking the occasion in 1885. Washington s Birthday the
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