Presidents' Day or Washington's Birthday? 7 things to know about next federal holiday
The shift from Washington’s Birthday to Presidents' Day began in the late 1960s, when Congress proposed the Uniform Monday ...
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The USS George Washington just won the sh*t out of Christmas
On Tuesday, the official Facebook page for the Nimitz-class carrier USS George Washington shared a holiday gag post reporting that the service “issued orders today to Adm. S. Claus, recalling ...
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Last Christmas left him wounded by gunfire. This year gifted him hope.
This time last year, Shawn Wilkerson lay wounded in a George Washington University Hospital bed, the unlikely survivor of a shooting early on Christmas Day in a Southeast Washington apartment ...
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Inauguration history: What happened on the day George Washington became president in 1789
On the afternoon of April 30, 1789, George Washington was sworn in as the first president of the United States. Since Washington took his oath of office, Inauguration Day has continued to be an ...
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A look inside Wall Street's Federal Hall, the site of George Washington's inauguration
With the latest presidential inauguration set to take place in Washington on Monday, Eyewitness News takes a look at where the first one took place: the heart of New York City, more than two centuries ...