national holiday
Noun
Meaning
authorized by law and limiting work or official business
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Boy, it sure burns me to have a national holiday for that pro-communist philanderer Martin Luther King. I voted against this outrage time and time again as a Congressman. What an infamy that Ronald Reagan approved it! We can thank him for our annual Hate Whitey Day.
On March 5, I will behead Rafael dos Anjos. I will drag his head through the streets of Rio de Janeiro, through a parade of people I'd imagine. It will become a national holiday also I would imagine.
Though President Grover Cleveland declared Labor Day a national holiday in 1894, the occasion was first observed on Sept. 5, 1882, in New York City.
After Korea was liberated, the government had Hangulnal as the important date to remember and finally in 2006, it became national holiday.
Christmas according to the Coptic calendar was adopted as an official national holiday in Egypt in 2002.
Andorra's national holiday is Our Lady of Meritxell Day, 8 September.