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This affects the Internal Revenue Service's due date for tax returns, which traditionally must be submitted by April 15. As the federal government observes the holiday, it causes the federal and all state tax deadlines to be moved to the 18th if Emancipation Day falls on a Saturday or Sunday and to the 17th if Emancipation Day falls on a Monday.
April 20. ( 2026-04-20) Frequency. Annual. Patriots' Grave in the Old Burying Ground cemetery, Arlington, Massachusetts. Patriots' Day ( Patriot's Day in Maine) [1] is an annual event, formalized as a legal holiday or a special observance day in six U.S. states, commemorating the battles of Lexington, Concord, and Menotomy, the inaugural ...
September 20, 1978 [2] The Emancipation Memorial, also known as the Freedman's Memorial or the Emancipation Group is a monument in Lincoln Park in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It was sometimes referred to as the "Lincoln Memorial" before the more prominent national memorial was dedicated in 1922. [3] [4]
An Act for the Release of certain Persons held to Service or Labor in the District of Columbia, 37th Cong., Sess. 2, ch. 54, 12 Stat. 376, known colloquially as the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act or simply Compensated Emancipation Act, was a law that ended slavery in the District of Columbia, while providing slave owners who remained loyal to the United States in the then ...
Typically, the federal tax-filing deadline falls on April 15. This year, though, you get an extra three days until April 18. That’s because a local holiday in Washington, D.C., closes all ...
April 15, 2024 at 6:00 AM. Douglas Sacha/Moment RF/Getty Images. It’s Tax Day in the United States for most Americans, and there are still plenty of people racing to file their 2023 income tax ...
April 15 (Tuesday) 2026 date. April 15 (Wednesday) In the United States, Tax Day is the day on which individual income tax returns are due to be submitted to the federal government. [3] Since 1955, Tax Day has typically fallen on or just after April 15. Tax Day was first introduced in 1913, when the Sixteenth Amendment was ratified.
The day Lincoln signed the bill, April 16, 1862, is celebrated in the District as Emancipation Day, a legal holiday since 2005. Congress granted suffrage to adult black males in the District of Columbia over Andrew Johnson's veto in January 1867 (Thomas Nast, Harper's Weekly, March 16, 1867) See also. Abolitionism in the United States ...