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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...
- 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...
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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...
- Festival, also
known as Tomb-Sweeping
Day in
English (sometimes also
called Chinese Memorial Day, Ancestors'
Day, the
Clear Brightness Festival, or the...
- A
Holocaust memorial day or
Holocaust remembrance day is an
annual observance to
commemorate the
victims of the Holocaust, the
genocide of six million...
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Hungary shall be: a) the 15th
day of March, in
memory of the 1848–49
Revolution and War of Independence, b) the 20th
day of August, in
memory of the state's...
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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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Peace Memorial Day (Chinese: 和平紀念日), also
known as 228
Memorial Day (Chinese: 二二八紀念日), is a
public holiday in
Taiwan for
honoring and
mourning the victims...
- Workers'
Memorial Day, also
known as
International Workers'
Memorial Day or
International Commemoration Day for Dead and Injured,
takes place annually...
- 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...
