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Memorial Day
Memorial Day Me*mo"ri*al Day
A day, May 30, appointed for commemorating, by decorating
their graves with flowers, by patriotic exercises, etc., the
dead soldiers and sailors who served the Civil War (1861-65)
in the United States; Decoration Day. It is a legal holiday
in most of the States. In the Southern States, the
Confederate Memorial Day is: May 30 in Virginia; April 26 in
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi; May 10 in North
Carolina and South Carolina; the second Friday in May in
Tennessee; June 3 in Louisiana. [U. S.]
Meaning of Memorial Day from wikipedia
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Memorial Day (originally
known as
Decoration Day) is one of the
federal holidays in the
United States for
honoring and
mourning the U.S.
military personnel...
- Day was
renamed Veterans Day in 1954.
Veterans Day is
distinct from
Memorial Day, a U.S.
public holiday in May:
Veterans Day commemorates the service...
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Confederate Memorial Day (called
Confederate Heroes Day in
Texas and Florida, and
Confederate Decoration Day in Tennessee) is a
holiday observed in several...
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Peace Memorial Day (Chinese: 和平紀念日), also
known as 228
Memorial Day, is a
public holiday in
Taiwan for
honoring and
mourning the
victims and families...
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Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD, 27 January) is a
national commemoration day in the
United Kingdom dedicated to the
remembrance of the Jews and
others who...
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Holodomor Memorial Day or
Holodomor Remembrance Day (Ukrainian: День пам'яті жертв голодоморів, romanized: Den
pamiati zhertv holodomoriv, lit. '
Day of memory...
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Remembrance Day (also
known as
Poppy Day owing to the
tradition of
wearing a
remembrance poppy) is a
memorial day observed in
Commonwealth member states...
- Look up
Memorial Day in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Memorial Day is an
American holiday.
Memorial Day may also
refer to:
Armenian Memorial Day or Armenian...
- A
Holocaust memorial day or
Holocaust remembrance day is an
annual observance to
commemorate the
victims of the Holocaust, the
genocide of six million...
- In the
Memorial Day m****acre of 1937, the
Chicago Police Department shot and
killed ten
unarmed demonstrators in Chicago, on May 30, 1937. The incident...
