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t. e. The United States federal government shutdown from midnight EST on December 22, 2018, until January 25, 2019 (35 days) was the longest government shutdown in history [1] [2] and the second [a] and final federal government shutdown involving furloughs during the presidency of Donald Trump. It occurred when the 115th Congress and Trump ...
Julian. 17 May 2024. The Julian calendar is a solar calendar of 365 days in every year with an additional leap day every fourth year (without exception). The Julian calendar is still used as a religious calendar in parts of the Eastern Orthodox Church and in parts of Oriental Orthodoxy as well as by the Amazigh people (also known as the Berbers).
The Gregorian calendar, like the Julian calendar, is a solar calendar with 12 months of 28–31 days each. The year in both calendars consists of 365 days, with a leap day being added to February in the leap years. The months and length of months in the Gregorian calendar are the same as for the Julian calendar.
23 April 2014 – 31 October 2016: Lebanon, President (17 rounds in 2015) [83] [84] 10 January: Afghanistan, House of Elders [85] 13–14 January: Uzbekistan, Senate [86] 29–31 January: Italy, President. 7 February, 20 April and 28 September: India, Council of States. 18 February: Greece, President.
The Federal Reserve System (often shortened to the Federal Reserve, or simply the Fed) is the central banking system of the United States.It was created on December 23, 1913, with the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act, after a series of financial panics (particularly the panic of 1907) led to the desire for central control of the monetary system in order to alleviate financial crises.
The following are African-American federal holidays in the United States: Date. Name. First celebrated. Remarks. third Monday of January. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. 1986. The birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. [1]
Juneteenth is a federal holiday in the United States. For decades, activists and congress members (led by many African Americans) proposed legislation, advocated for, and built support for state and national observances. During his campaign for president in June 2020, Joe Biden publicly celebrated the holiday. [123]
The FBI and ATF tracked 164 structure fires from arson that occurred May 27–30, 2020, during the George Floyd protests in Minneapolis–Saint Paul. [2] [1] Rioters started fires by igniting flammable materials within or next to buildings and in some cases by deploying Molotov cocktails. [3] [4] Property locations were damaged by spreading ...