A bizarre tidbit of Southern trivia for you:
In 1983 the government established Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a federal holiday ocurring every year on the third Monday in January. Virginia, however, already had state holidays honoring Robert E. Lee's birthday (January 19) and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson's birthday (January 21). So the Virginia legislature, in order to keep the holiday calendar neat and tidy, lumped all three together.
And thus Lee-Jackson-King Day was born, despite great controversy. And thus it remained until January of 2000, when then-governor Gilmore proposed moving the Lee and Jackson bits to the Friday prior to Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Which makes today Lee-Jackson Day in the state of Virginia.
It sure beats the half-day we got in college...
do you then get friday off too? you lucky duck - that's if you do.. and if you don't - happy friday and go home soon!!
the half day in college was lame. after being in class half a day, i had little energy to do any of the community service the school "encouraged" us to do.
Nope, no day off for us. But all state and local government offices are closed, so no lines at the DMV today!! :)