In the United States there are, strict speaking.                                                               【A1】________
no national holiday, for each state must, through legislative enactment                      【A2】________
or executive proclamation, appoint the day which each holiday                                   【A3】________
is celebrated. Congress and the president may establish legal holidays for
the District of Columbia and for federal employees throughout the states and
territories; and by long custom, days that receive nationwide observation,                  【A4】________
such as Christmas, Thanksgiving. Labor Day, Independence Day, and                          【A5】________
New Year 's Day; are uniformly set aside by all state as legal, or public holidays.        【A6】________
In 1968, federal legislation established Columbia Day as a legal holiday for the
District of Columbia and for the federal government beginning at 1971.                     【A7】________
The law also provided begun in 1971 federal employees would be granted                  【A8】________
three-days weekends by observing Washington s Birthday on the third                      【A9】________
Monday in February, Memorial Day on the last Monday in May, Columbus
Day on the second Monday in October, and Veteran Day on the forth
Monday on October By 1971, most the states had also adopted the new dates.         【A10】________

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