Hello, To prove that Steve knows what he is talking about:
"Did you know? The State of Ohio recognized Martin Luther King Day as a legal holiday, effective Aug. 1, 1975. See S.B. No. 18, 136 Laws of Ohio, Part II, 41; ORC 1.14. The federal government did not declare Martin Luther King Day a federal holiday until 1983". From the CM Law Library Blog. of the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland, Ohio. 73, Bruce WA8TNC ========================= [email protected] wrote: > Ron Lawrence W4RON <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I hate to question your memory, but Martin Luther King Day didn't >> exist in 1977 or 1978. >> President Ronald Reagan signed the holiday into law in 1983, and it >> was first observed in 1986. > ---------------------------- > That's the *federal* holiday. I hate to correct a corrector, but it > most certainly did exist - in the State of Ohio. > > This is the sixth email message I've received pointing out this > supposed error on my part. I experienced it as a school holiday in > the late 1970s, and as a city and state employee in the very early > 1980s. I recall much racially-oriented bellyaching at the time about > the state adopting this new holiday. > > Steve WD8DAS > > [email protected] > http://www.wd8das.net/ > ----------------------------------------------------- > Radio is your best entertainment value. > ----------------------------------------------------- ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:[email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
