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Originally Posted by Stu from NYC
Do we really need a national holiday now, 155 years later over this?
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It won't be the first paid holiday granted for an event that far in the past.
Washington's Birthday became a holiday in 1879 which was 147 years after he was born.
While Independence Day was a holiday in 1870 it wasn't a paid day off until 1938 or 1941 (different sources) both of which are more 160 years after the event it celebrates.
New Years Day, Christmas, Columbus Day and Thanksgiving did not become paid holidays in the US until hundreds, thousands, or millions of years after the event they celebrate, though that is mostly a technicality since the US didn't exist at that time.