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What u. S. Holiday was first observed in 1986, though several states and cities had been holding their own observances for years before that?.

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The bill passed with ease the following day (78-22) and President Ronald Reagan immediately signed the legislation. But though the first federal holiday was celebrated in 1986, it took years for observance to filter through to every state. Several Southern states promptly combined Martin Luther King Jr.

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