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HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS 43
Holidays, Anniversaries and Festivals, 1968 and 1969
Bank Holidays-By act of the Fifty-fourth Legislature, 1955, legally prescribed (compul-
sory) bank holidays in Texas, in addition to Sundays, are New Year's Day, San Jacinto Day,
Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas. At their option, banks may close
one day a week besides Sunday, usually Saturdays, but on any day selected by the individual
bank. Prior to this act, permitting a 5-day banking week, bank holidays included all holidays
in the list below marked with asterisk (*), double asterisk (**) or dagger (t).*New Year's Day.....................Monday, Jan. 1
Epiphany ............................ Saturday, Jan. 6
**Robert E. Lee's Birthday........Friday, Jan. 19
$Arbor Day (Third Friday in
January) ..... ..............Friday, Jan. 19
Septuagesima .......................Sunday, Feb. 11
*Lincoln's Birthday...............Monday, Feb. 12
*Washington's Birthday...........Thursday, Feb. 22
Quinquagesima-Shrove Sunday........Sunday, Feb. 25
Ash Wednesday...................Wednesday, Feb. 28
tTexas Independence Day ........Saturday, March 2
$Texas Flag Day.................Saturday, March 2
$Sam Houston Day................Saturday, March 2
Quadragesima-First Sunday in Lent..Sunday, March 3
Palm Sunday........................Sunday, April 7
Good Friday.................... ......Friday, April 12
Passover-Pesach, First Day of......Saturday, April 13
Easter Sunday..... ..........Sunday, April 14
tSan Jacinto Day..................Sunday, April 21
Low Sunday.........................Sunday, April 21
Rogation Sunday....................Sunday, May 19
Ascension Day-Holy Thursday......Thursday, May 23
*Memorial Day...................Thursday, May 30
Pentecost-Whit Sunday................Sunday, June 2
Feast of Weeks-Shebuoth..............Sunday, June 2
*"Jefferson Davis' Birthday Monday, June 3
Trinity Sunday......................Sunday, June 9
Corpus Christi....................Thursday, June 13
Emancipation Day..............Wednesday, June 19
*Independence Day................Thursday, July 4
$Texas Pioneers Day..............Monday, Aug. 12
*Labor Day........................Monday, Sept. 2
Jewish New Year-Rosh Hashanah...Monday, Sept. 23
Day of Atonement-Yom Kippur.... Wednesday, Oct. 2
First Day of Tabernacles-Succoth.....Monday, Oct. 7
$Casimir Pulaski Day............. Friday, Oct. 11
*Columbus Day.....................Saturday, Oct. 12
t$Poetry Day....................Tuesday, Oct. 15
*Father of Texas Day................Sunday, Nov. 3
General Election Day (in certain states,
including Texas)..................Tuesday, Nov. 5
*Veterans Day................Monday, Nov. 11
*Thanksgiving Day tt(Fourth
Thursday) .. ... ............Thursday, Nov. 28
First Sunday in Advent................Sunday, Dec. 1
*Christmas Day..................Wednesday, Dec. 251969
*New Year's Day................Wednesday, Jan. 1
Epiphany ............................Monday, Jan. 6
$Arbor Day (Third Friday in
January)............ ......... Friday, Jan. 17
**Robert E. Lee's Birthday.........Sunday, Jan. 19
Septuagesima ......,........ .... Sunday, Feb, 2
*Lincoln's Birthday.... ....Wednesday, Feb. 12
Quinquagesima-Shrove Sunday........Sunday, Feb. 16
Ash Wednesday..................Wednesday, Feb. 19
*Washington's Birthday.......... Saturday, Feb. 22
Quadragesima-First Sunday in Lent... Sunday, Feb. 23
tTexas Independence Day...........Sunday, March 2
tTexas Flag Day....................Sunday, March 2
*Sam Houston Day.................Sunday, March 2
Palm Sunday.. . ...Sunday, March 30
Passover-Pesach, First Day of......Thursday, April 3
Good Friday..... ...............Friday, April 4
Easter Sunday.......................Sunday, April 6
Low Sunday... .................Sunday, April 13
tSan Jacinto Day..................Monday, April 21
Rogation Sunday....................Sunday, May 11
Ascension Day-Holy Thursday......Thursday, May 15
Feast of Weeks-Shebuoth.............Friday, May 23
Pentecost-Whit Sunday...............Sunday, May 25
*Memorial Day.....................Friday, May 30
Trinity Sunday........... ........ Sunday, June 1
**Jefferson Davis' Birthday.........Tuesday, June 3
Corpus Christi ... .. ...Thursday, June 5
Emancipation Day..............Thursday, June 19
*Independence Day..................Friday, July 4
*Texas Pioneers Day..............Tuesday, Aug. 12
*Labor Day.......................Monday, Sept. 1
Jewish New Year-Rosh Hashanah..Saturday, Sept. 13
Day of Atonement-Yom Kippur......Monday, Sept. 22
First Day of Tabernacles-Succoth..Saturday, Sept. 27
$Casimir Pulaski Day.............Saturday, Oct. 11
*Columbus Day............. ...Sunday, Oct. 12
IPoetry Day..... ..........Wednesday, Oct. 15
*Father of Texas Day............ Monday, Nov. 3
General Election Day (in certain states,
including Texas)..................Tuesday, Nov. 4
*Veterans Day... ........Tuesday, Nov. 11
*Thanksgiving Day tt(Fourth Thursday
in November)...................Thursday, Nov. 27
First Sunday in Advent........... Sunday, Nov. 30
*Christmas Day...................Thursday, Dec. 25*National holidays, all of which are also state holidays by act of the Texas Legislature,
except Lincoln's Birthday, Feb. 12, which was recognized by state law, exclusively as a bank
holiday, until the number of bank holidays was restricted by state law in 1955, providing a
5-day we# and restricting the number of bank holidays.
tLegal holiday in Texas only.
$"Special observance days," set aside by Texas Legislature. They are not legal holidays,
though two of them fall on March 2, which is otherwise designated as a state legal holiday,
except for bank closing.
IA "special observance day" by resolution of the Texas Legislature but also observed by
legislative enactment in many other states.
INot a legal holiday, but generally observed by Negroes.
*Legal holiday in Texas and some other Southern States.
ttTHANKSGIVING DAY IN TEXAS was designated as the "fourth Thursday in November"
by the Fifty-fifth Legislature, 1957. This made the state Thanksgiving coincide with the national
holiday in all years. Prior to that Texas had, beginning with 1939, celebrated separate national
and state Thanksgiving Days in all Novembers having five Thursdays. This arose from Presi-
dent Franklin D. Roosevelt s proclamation in 1939 changing the traditional date from the "last
Thursday" to the "fourth Thursday." But Texas, first by governor's proclamation, and by
legislative resolution after 1951, continued to observe the last Thursday, until changed in 1957
to coincide in all years with the national holiday.
Texas Special Observance Weeks, 1968 and 1969
As Adopted by the Texas Legislature:1968
Texas Week........................Sunday, Feb. 25-
Saturday, March 2, inclusive. (The week including
Texas Independence Day, March 2.)
Texas Conservation and Beautification Week..April 19
to April 26, inclusive. (This includes the period be-
ginning two days before San Jacinto Day, April 21,
and ending two days after National Wildflower Day,
April 24.)1969
Texas Week............ ...Sunday, March 2-
Saturday, March 8, inclusive. (The week including
Texas Independence Day, March 2.)
Texas Conservation and Beautification Week..April 19
to April 26, inclusive. (This includes the period be-
ginning two days before San Jacinto Day, April 21,
and ending two days after National Wildflower Day,
April 24.)
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