Timeline Monday 20 January 1986

Events on Monday 20 January 1986 1

• 1986 First Martin Luther King Jr. Day New US federal holiday honors the civil rights leader The United States observed its first federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr., three years after Congress passed the enabling legislation. The holiday falls on the third Monday of January near King's birthday. Some states initially resisted observing it, and a few did not adopt it fully for over a decade.