His birthday is February 22. George wants said I cannot tell a lie , I chopped down that cherry tree. It’s a lie if you think today is his birthday.
” It’s a lie if you think today is his birthday.”
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On the third Monday in February, we honor our first President, George Washington, whose birthday is February 22.
We also traditionally honor President Abraham Lincoln, whose birthday is February 12. Records in the National Archives relate to all our Presidents, and the Presidential Libraries and Museums are a unique resource for the modern Presidents since Herbert Hoover.
George Washington portrait
Washington’s Birthday was the first federal holiday to honor an individual’s birth date.
In 1885, Congress designated February 22 as a holiday for all federal workers. Nearly a century later, in 1971, the Uniform Monday Holiday Law changed the date to the third Monday in February.
The position of the holiday between the birthdays of Washington and Abraham Lincoln gave rise to the popular name of Presidents Day.
Explore selected documents and images from the National Archives Catalog related to Washington’s Birthday.
https://www.archives.gov/news/topics/washingtons-birthday