President`s day by amrinder kang

Presidents day honors two of our greatest presidents. But some people call it Washington's birthday. but presidents day is not the official name of the Holiday.As the first federal holiday to honor an American citizen, the holiday was celebrated on Washington's actual birthday, February 22.On 1 January 1971, the federal holiday was shifted to the third Monday in February by the Uniform Monday Holiday Act.This date places it between February 15 and 21, which makes the name "Washington's Birthday" a misnomer, since it never lands on Washington's actual birthday. February 22.

A draft of the Uniform Holidays Bill of 1968 would have renamed the holiday to Presidents' Day to honor the birthdays of both Washington and Lincoln, but this proposal failed in committee and the bill as voted on and signed into law on 28 June 1968, kept the name Washington's Birthday.The first attempt to create a Presidents Day occurred in 1951 when the "President's Day National Committee" was formed by Harold Stonebridge Fischer of Compton, California, who became its National Executive Director for the next two decades.

The purpose was not to honor any particular President, but to honor the office of the Presidency. it was first thought that March 4, the original inauguration day, should be deemed Presidents Day. However, the bill recognizing the March 4th date was stalled in the Senate Judiciary Committee which had authority over national holidays.That committee felt that, because of its proximity to Lincoln's and Washington Birthdays, three holidays so close together would be trouble.