Day, Independent Day, and New Year’s Day, are uniformly set __5__apart by all states as legal, or public holidays. In 1968, federal __6__legislation established Columbia Day as a legal holiday for the District of Columbia and for the federal government beginning at __7__1971. The law also provided begun in 1971 federal employees __8__would be granted three-days weekends by observing Washington’s __9__Birthday on the third Monday in February, Memorial Day on the last Monday in May, Columbus Day on the second Monday inOctober, and Veteran Day on the forth Monday on October. By 1971, most of the states also adopted the new dates. __10__