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2 unusual facts about Martin Luther King, Jr. Day


Killer of Sheep

On January 21, 2008 (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day) Turner Classic Movies presented the world broadcast premiere of the movie as part of a night-long marathon of Burnett's movies.

Uniform Monday Holiday Act

Though the holiday was not in existence at the time, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (established 1983) is celebrated on the third Monday in January, instead of King's actual birth date, January 15, for the same reasons.


All Saints' Day

In English-speaking countries, the festival is traditionally celebrated with the hymn "For All the Saints" by Walsham How.

California State Route 94

Perhaps due to its namesake, this highway served as part of the route of the hearse that carried the body of Coretta Scott King from San Diego to Atlanta.

Chaim Herzog

In recent years British historians headed by Simon Sebag-Montefiore have included this speech in a book on speeches that changed the world, which includes others by Martin Luther King, Jr, Nelson Mandela, Winston Churchill and John F. Kennedy.

Christian radicalism

Examples of nonviolent radicalism include Martin Luther King, Jr., Toyohiko Kagawa, Leo Tolstoy, Gerrard Winstanley, William Blake and Gustavo Gutiérrez, whilst examples of violent radicalism include the Münster Rebellion, Thomas Müntzer and Camilo Torres Restrepo.

David Day

David F. Day (1847–1914), Union Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient

David A. Day (born 1963), American politician in the Missouri House of Representatives

Despoilers of the Golden Empire

Being published in March, the story was, in effect, an early April Fools' Day prank.

Donald Rooum

He was a founding member of the Malatesta Club, an anarchist social club and venue that opened in London on May Day 1954.

Dr. Charles R. Drew Science Magnet

The Science Magnet is physically connected to the Buffalo Museum of Science at Martin Luther King, Jr. Park.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Multicultural Institute

The Dr. Martin Luther King Multicultural Institute is an elementary school located in the East Side of Buffalo, New York.

Fellowship of Reconciliation

In 1955 and 1956, Glenn E. Smiley, a white Methodist minister, was assigned by the FOR to assist the Rev. Martin Luther King in the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Fourmies, Nord

It was the first French and international celebration of International Workers' Day on May Day.

Frank Morales

He first became involved in politics after the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King as a member of the Assassination Information Committee.

GameFront

This led some people to believe that the announcement had been a poorly executed April Fools' joke.

Georgia Davis Powers

In 1964, she was one of the organizers of a march on the state capitol at Frankfort in support of equity in public accommodations, an event in which Dr. Martin Luther King and baseball legend Jackie Robinson participated.

Gogebic Community College

Steven E. Day, Coast Guard Rear Admiral (Lower Half) currently serving as Deputy Commander for Mobilization and Reserve Affairs, Coast Guard Atlantic Area.

Harry Wu

In 2007, Wu criticized the selection of a Chinese sculptor, Lei Yixin, as the lead sculptor for the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial based on the fact that Lei had also carved statues celebrating Mao Zedong.

Heroes' Day

National Heroes Day is a national public holiday in the Philippines to honour and remember the country’s heroes, men and women in Philippine history whose acts of courage enabled the Philippines to grow as a nation.

Honor Glide

He was purchased for $31,000 at the 1995 Fasig-Tipton July yearling sale by Robert G. Schaedle III on the advice of 1968 Summer Olympics Equestrian Gold Medalist and Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame trainer, Jim Day.

Humboldt Park

Humboldt Park, the former name of Martin Luther King, Jr. Park in Buffalo, New York; designed by Frederick Law Olmsted

John Tidmarsh

Tidmarsh had many more overseas assignments, including the revolt in Lebanon in June 1958 to overthrow Camille Chamoun, the two wars between India and Pakistan in 1962 and 1965, a three month assignment in Vietnam in 1965 and the USA, where he covered the whole of the Civil Rights March from Selma to Montgomery in Alabama, led by Martin Luther King.

Jonathan M. Weiss

In the mid 1960s Weiss worked as an interpreter for the United States State Department during which time he interpreted for, among others, Martin Luther King, Jr. for francophone African dignitaries.

Levens

At the end of the 14th century, the destiny of Levens was linked to the whole County of Nice, which parted with Provence to form an alliance with Savoy on the initiative of the powerful John All Saints' Day, baron of Beuil, whose eldest son later became lord of Levens.

Lochner v. New York

Justice John Marshall Harlan wrote a dissenting opinion, which was joined by Justices White and Day.

Maarten van Rossem

He continues to be intrigued by the United States, collecting newspaper clippings on Martin Luther King, president Kennedy and the Chicago riots.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital

Community Hospital is a 130 bed community hospital in South Los Angeles's Willowbrook neighborhood, designed for uninsured or underinsured patients.

Martin Luther King, Jr., National Historic Site

The statue of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was donated by The Indian Council for Cultural Relations, India, in collaboration with The National Federation of Indian American Associations and The Embassy of India, USA.

Matthias W. Day

John Denny and Second Lieutenant Robert Temple Emmet, who like Day had graduated from West Point in 1877, also received the Medal of Honor for their actions at Las Animas Canyon.

Assisted by Sergeant John Denny, who helped support one man, Day carried the other on his back through "a hail of bullets so thick it seemed 'no one could pass this open rocky space alive'" to safety.

Mildred Gillars

She was then held by the Counterintelligence Corps at Camp King, Oberursel, along with fellow-collaborators Herbert John Burgman and Donald S. Day until she was conditionally released from custody on December 24, 1946.

National Doctors' Day

A year later Finlay identified a mosquito of the genus Aedes as the organism transmitting yellow fever.

No Name in the Street

It depicts several historical events and figures from the Baldwin's perspective: Francisco Franco, McCarthyism and Martin Luther King's death, as well as Malcolm X, Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver, and the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

Pathfinder Mural

Well-known activists and political figures included Martin Luther King, Jr., Sojourner Truth, Malcolm X, Fidel Castro, Stephen Biko, and Harriet Tubman.

Paul Hardin, Jr.

He was Bishop of the Alabama-West Florida Annual Conference of the Methodist Church in 1963 when he joined seven other white clergymen to write the letter A Call For Unity, making a thinly veiled reference to Martin Luther King, Jr. King replied to this letter with his Letter from Birmingham Jail.

Philip A. Hart Plaza

The monument stands close to where Martin Luther King, Jr. first gave his “I Have a Dream” speech on June 20, 1963, a speech that was repeated later that year at the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

Raquel Partnoy

Through her series of paintings “Surviving Genocide,” which was shown at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Library in 2003, Partnoy depicted her family experiences during the military dictatorship in Argentina (1976–1983) when 30,000 persons disappeared and were eventually killed by state terrorism.

Richard Day

Richard J. F. Day (born c. 1964), professor of sociology and cultural studies at Queen's University, Canada, scholar-activist

Roland B. Day

From 1957 to 1958, he served as legal counsel to Senator William Proxmire in Washington, D.C.

Sarteneja

The majority of the villagers prepare to welcome the "Finados" or "Día de los Muertos" or "All Souls' Day" which begins on November 1.

Sir John Lawes School

The school is split into seven houses, Austen (Red), Britten (Yellow), Hepworth, (Green), King (Silver), Lawes (Orange), Newton (Blue) and Ryder (Purple), named for Jane Austin, Benjamin Britten, Barbara Hepworth, Martin Luther King, John Bennet Lawes, Isaac Newton and Sue Ryder respectively.

Stephen A. Day

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1944 to the Seventy-ninth Congress.

Stephen Day

Stephen A. Day (1882–1950), US lawyer and member of the House of Representatives, 1941–1945

Sy Gomberg

A supporter of the American Civil Liberties Union, Gomberg organized members of the film industry to march with Martin Luther King, Jr., in Alabama.

Ted Robert Gurr

In 1968 Professor Gurr was asked to join the staff of the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, established by President Lyndon Johnson after the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy.

United Farm Workers

The union publicly adopted the principles of non-violence championed by Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

WAAX

But the main ongoing agenda was the African American civil rights movement where he covered church civil-rights meetings, KKK rallies, and protests, and interviewed such notables as Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph Abernathy, Marlon Brando, Harry Belafonte, and others for the station.

WCOA-FM

In 1993, WJLQ shifted to Urban Adult Contemporary as "Magic 100.7", which lasted only about a year before the station became "Arrow 100.7" with a classic rock format on April Fools' Day 1994, with the WWRO call letters being assigned on April 22, 1994.

WDZN

On the afternoon of April 2, it was announced that the smooth jazz format and the man named "Stu" were part of an April Fools' Day joke and that the station would in fact, be carrying a country music format.

William Day

William R. Day (1849–1923), American diplomat and Supreme Court Justice


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