legislation for a Martin Luther King Jr. Day on the third Monday of January cleared Congress, and President Ronald Reagan signed it. Reagan’s signing did not lead other Republicans to follow.

It was first proposed four days after King's 1968 assassination outside a Memphis motel. It took 15 years until it became a ...

Martin Luther ... King was recognized with a day and even longer for all of the United States to recognize it, according to Smithsonian.com. On Nov. 2, 1983, then President Ronald Reagan signed ...

Government offices will be closed on Monday, Jan. 20, in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day ... President Ronald Reagan signed the King Holiday Bill into law on Nov. 2, 1983, thus ...

DEAR READERS: Wishing you all a very happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Inauguration ... be equal in fact and not just in theory?” -- Ronald Reagan, Jan. 20, 1981. “There is nothing wrong ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day will coincide with the presidential ... the holiday will also coincide with Inauguration Day. Former President Ronald Reagan first made the day a federal holiday in ...

61 years after his famous I Have *** Dream speech, Martin Luther King Jr.s message lives on ... Just four days after his assassination, President Ronald Reagan signed legislation to designate ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a federal holiday honoring the life and legacy of the iconic civil rights leader. Trump's inauguration ceremony will be held indoors on Monday due to the freezing ...