It was 41 years ago that President Ronald Reagan made the third Monday in January an official federal holiday to honor Martin Luther King Jr.'s Jan. 15 birthday.

As Reagan put it: “Now our nation has decided to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by setting aside a day each year to remember him and the just cause he stood for….

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Then, on Nov. 3, 1983, President Ronald Reagan signed the bill establishing Martin Luther King Jr. Day as we know it. On Jan. 20, 1986, the country officially observed the holiday for the first time.

One of the inconvenient facts confounding the left-wing account of the civil-rights movement is President Ronald Reagan’s establishment of Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 1983.

It has been 40 years since Ronald Reagan signed the bill making Martin Luther King Jr. Day an official national holiday. In that time the legacy of America’s most famous and formidable civil ...

A bill proposing a federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr. was first introduced in 1968. It became a federal holiday in 1983 when then-President Ronald Reagan first signed a bill into law.

The annual day of remembrance for Martin Luther King Jr. is less than two weeks away, falling on Monday, Jan. 20, the same day as Inauguration Day this year.

But Martin Luther King Jr. Day is celebrated on the third Monday in January due to the Uniform Monday Holiday Act, which former President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law in 1968.