Lincoln's Birthday
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February 12, a legal holiday in some states of the U.S., in honor of the birth of Abraham Lincoln.
Example Sentences
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It has arrived: on Sunday, Lincoln’s Birthday, the last stage in the theater’s expansion will be unveiled as part of a public open house.
From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2012
“First they replaced Lincoln’s Birthday with Presidents’ Day, and now this,” said Harold Holzer, a Lincoln scholar.
From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2010
On this Lincoln's Birthday Reagan promotes nine military general officers and approves a presidential proclamation on agriculture.
From Time Magazine Archive
The markets also decided to close for trading on Lincoln's Birthday, Feb. 12, to give back-office workers an extra day to whittle down the logjam.
From Time Magazine Archive
You have invited me, as a member of the liberated race, to address you upon this Lincoln's Birthday in commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation.
From Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson
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