Arbor Day reached its height of popularity on its 125th anniversary in 1997, when David J. Wright, noticed that a Nebraska nonprofit organization called the National Arbor Day Foundation had taken the name of the holiday and commercialized it for their own use as a trademark for their publication " Arbor Day ," so he countered their efforts, launched a website, and trademarked it for " public use celebrations " and defended the matter in a federal district court in the United States to ensure it was judged as property of the public domain, the case was settled in October 1999.

Arbor Day ( Sikmogil, 식목일 ) was a public holiday in South Korea on April 5 until 2005.

Still extant echoes of these celebrations are found in the mid-autumn Thanksgiving holiday of the United States and Canada, and the Jewish Sukkot holiday with its roots as a full-moon harvest festival of " tabernacles " ( huts wherein the harvest was processed and which later gained religious significance ).

Late in 2010, some Congressmen ( after the four-day Bicentennial holiday was proved successful ) asked for a law that would forbid the opening of supermarkets and department stores on Sundays, however retailers claimed that Sunday shopping made about 20 % of their weekly sales, more than other day of the week, thus preventing the law from taking place.

Despite selling off all of those farms that were at Ballynally, " there was barely enough to keep up New Park and pay for the blasted summer holiday " ( i. e., at New Park ).

On completion of his tour of duty in India, Montgomery returned to Britain in June 1937 where he became commanding officer of the 9th Infantry Brigade with the temporary rank of brigadier, but that year saw great tragedy when his wife was bitten by an insect while on holiday in Burnham-on-Sea.

She was returning to her California home following a holiday on Cape Cod.

That is, while the events may not be historically accurate the book itself was written to tell a story of a time in history, in this case the origin of the Jewish holiday of Purim.

In 1887, when Dalguise was no longer available, the Potters took their first summer holiday in Lancashire in the Lake District, at Wray Castle near Windermere.

In September 1893 Potter was on holiday at Eastwood in Dunkeld, Perthshire.

In Ireland – when it was part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland – the Bank Holidays Act 1871 established the feast day of St. Stephen as a non-movable public holiday on 26 December.

Annual celebrations also take place in Hong Kong, entitled Canada D ' eh and held on June 30 at Lan Kwai Fong, where an estimated attendance of 12, 000 was reported in 2008 ; in Afghanistan, where members of the Canadian Forces mark the holiday at their base ; and in Mexico, at the American Legion in Chapala, and the Canadian Club in Ajijic.

However, the holiday was not established statutorily until 1879, when it was designated as Dominion Day, in reference to the designation of the country as a Dominion in the British North America Act.

The holiday was initially not dominant in the national calendar ; up to the early 20th century, Canadians thought themselves to be primarily British, being thus less interested in celebrating distinctly Canadian forms of patriotism.

His bill was passed quickly by the House of Commons but was stalled by the Senate, which returned the bill to the Commons with the recommendation that the holiday be renamed The National Holiday of Canada, an amendment that effectively killed the bill.

Frances was invited to stay with the Wright family during the school summer holiday so that she and Elsie could take more pictures of the fairies.

To celebrate " his Majesty's Return to his Parliament " May 29 was made a public holiday, popularly known as Oak Apple Day.

Rav Nissim Gaon postulates in his Hakdamah Le ' mafteach Hatalmud that information on the holiday was so commonplace that the Mishna felt no need to explain it.

Reuvein Margolies suggests that as the Mishnah was redacted after the Bar Kochba revolt, its editors were reluctant to include explicit discussion of a holiday celebrating another relatively recent revolt against a foreign ruler, for fear of antagonizing the Romans.

* 1937 – Pennsylvania becomes the first ( and only ) state of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday.

* June 14 – Pennsylvania becomes the first ( and only ) of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday.

By tradition, the fair was officially opened by the incumbent mayor at 11 am on the May Day bank holiday.

The holiday for Flora ( as officially determined by Julius Caesar when he fixed the Roman caediles.

In Quebec, June 24 or Quebec's National Holiday, St. John the Baptist Day is officially a paid statutory public holiday covered under the Act Respecting Labour Standards.

After it became a statutory holiday, June 24 was officially a holiday for all Quebecers rather than only those of French-Canadian or Catholic origins.

Whit Monday was officially recognised as a bank holiday in 1871 but lost this status in 1971 when the Spring Bank Holiday was created.

In Ireland, the term " public holiday " is used officially, though " bank holiday " is used colloquially.

Due to the necessity of recent astronomical measurements, the date of the holiday is not officially declared until February of the previous year.

The date of the holiday is not officially declared until February of the previous year, due to the need for recent astronomical measurements.

One of the most well-known holiday resorts in the country, Tapolca ( officially Miskolctapolca or Miskolc-Tapolca to avoid confusion with the Transdanubian town of the same name ) is the home of the unique Cave Bath, a natural cave with thermal water.

On December 9, 2006, a controversy arose over the airport's display of Christmas trees, which the Port of Seattle officially called " holiday trees " in all public statements.

War All the Time features Andrew Everding on keyboards, though he would not become an official member of the band until December 26, 2004, when he was officially welcomed into the band at the band's Christmas holiday shows held at Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, New Jersey.

However, the People's Republic of China government, established in 1949, did not officially recognize Duanwu as a public holiday.

The Druze annual pilgrimage continues to be held and was officially recognized as a religious holiday by the Israel in 1954.

* Germany does not officially recognise 9 May as a holiday.

* Yugoslavia officially recognised 9 May as the Victory Day over Fascism as an all-state non-working holiday.

Skegness enjoys its position on what is officially recognised as ' the drier side of Britain ', being the east coast-a fact that has often been used to some advantage in promoting it as a holiday resort.

Patriots ' Day ( officially Patriots ' Day in Massachusetts and Patriot's Day in Maine ) is a civic holiday commemorating the anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the first battles of the American Revolutionary War.

Although having only around 1, 600 official residents, the population and activity within the village is enhanced by the presence of holiday homes and surrounding hamlets which officially lie within other village boundaries.

The holiday was officially established in 1992.

The municipal holiday is September 15, which marks the date in the year 1860 on which King Pedro V of Portugal officially recognised Setúbal as a city.