The declassification of a new round of MLK records conjures her mother Coretta’s words: “They keep trying to assassinate your ...

Source: Paras Griffin / Getty The story behind how the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. became a federal holiday with the help of legendary musician Stevie Wonder will now be the subject of ...

Observed federally since 1986, the holiday occurs on the third Monday of January, which this year happens to be the Rev. King's actual birthday. Born in 1929, the minister would have been 95.

This legislation would permanently codify a new federal holiday called “Trump’s Birthday and Flag Day” on June 14 to honor this historic day.” ...

Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.) introduced a bill Friday that would establish President Trump’s birthday, June 14, as a public holiday. The Trump’s Birthday and Flag Day Holiday Establishment Act ...

A Republican congresswoman has introduced legislation that would make President Donald Trump 's birthday a federal holiday. New York Representative Claudia Tenney has proposed designating June 14 ...

U.S. Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-Cleveland, introduced a bill to make June 14 a new federal holiday that would be known as “Trump’s Birthday and Flag Day.” Trump was born June 14, 1946.

Accessed 17 Feb. 2025. Tenney, Claudia. H.R.1395 - To Amend Title 5, United States Code, to Designate Trump's Birthday and Flag Day as a Legal Public Holiday.

King was born on Jan. 15, 1929. When the federal holiday was adopted in the 1980s, Mississippi and Alabama lawmakers opted to add it to an existing holiday honoring Confederate general Robert E. Lee.