United States 1968 Congressional act regarding federal holidays
Uniform Monday Holiday Act
Long title
An act to provide for uniform annual observances of certain legal public holidays on Mondays, and for other purposes.
Enacted by
the 90th United States Congress
Effective
January 1, 1971
Citations
Public law
Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 90–363
Statutes at Large
82 Stat. 250
An 1890s poster showing Washington's Birthday as February 22, the date on which it always fell before being changed by the Uniform Monday Holiday Act.
The Uniform Monday Holiday Act (Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 90–363, 82 Stat. 250, enacted June 28, 1968) is an Act of Congress that moved permanently to a Monday two federal holidays in the United States — Washington's Birthday and Memorial Day — and that made Columbus Day a federal holiday, also permanently on a Monday. This created long weekends with three days off ending with the holidays, such as Memorial Day Weekend.
Veterans Day was moved from November 11 to the fourth Monday in October, but in 1978 it was returned to November 11, the actual date of the end of World War I and celebrated in several European countries as Armistice Day.
The Act was signed into law on June 1, 1968, and took effect on January 1, 1971.[1]
^An Act to provide for uniform annual observances of certain legal public holidays on Mondays, and for other purposes, Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 90–363, 82 Stat. 250, enacted June 28, 1968.
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