The origins of Presidents Day lie in salutes to George Washington’s Feb. 22 birthday, some highly ceremonial and others strikingly unusual. In the early 19th century, for instance, a formal ...

The Northwoods Walton Club will give a banquet at the Astor House to-night. WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY IN JERSEY CITY. WASHINGTON's Birthday will be duly observed in Jersey City to-day by the closing ...

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Presidents Day is always on a Monday. The Uniform Holidays Act of 1968 changed what day the holiday Washington’s Birthday would fall on. Instead of on the founding father’s birthday ...

Neither Congress nor the president have ever stipulated that the name of the holiday observed as Washington's Birthday be changed to Presidents' Day, according to the National Archives.

Thousands of spectators will gather in Old Town Alexandria for the nation’s oldest and largest George Washington Birthday Parade. This year’s theme, George Washington: America’s Commander-in ...

Either way, Washington paid little attention to his birthday, according to Mountvernon.org, the website of the organization that manages his estate. Surviving records make no mention of ...

Ogden Nash regularly contributed verse to The New Yorker for more than forty years. His last poem in the magazine was published the week after his death, in 1971. What Made the Irish Famine So ...