US Presidential Messages on Important Birthdays and Anniversaries

Below are links to brief, written messages by President Donald Trump honoring events and the actions of role models for us all.

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          Presidential Message Commemorating 250 Years of the Bible in America

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          Leif Erikson

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          Christopher Columbus

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          418th Anniversary of the First Landing and the Raising of the Cape Henry Cross, April 29, 1607

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          406th Anniversary of the First Representative Legislative Assembly in America, July 30, 1619

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          The Birthday of Benjamin Franklin, January 17, 1706

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          The Birthday of Thomas Jefferson, April 13, 1743

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          The Birthday of John Jay, December 12, 1745, First Chief Justice of the United States

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          260th Anniversary of the Formation of the Sons of Liberty, Aug. 14, 1765

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          255th Anniversary of the Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770

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          250th Anniversary of Patrick Henry’s “Give Me Liberty, Or Give Me Death!” Speech, March 23, 1775

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          250th Anniversary of Paul Revere’s Midnight Ride, April 18, 1775 (also read the CIA article, Eve of Revolution: The Boston Mechanics and the Legendary Midnight Ride

[ Read the SemperVerus article, 250th Anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord for American Independence ]

          250th Anniversary of the First Convening of the Second Continental Congress, May 10, 1775

          Anniversary of the Capture of Fort Ticonderoga, May 10, 1775

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          250th Anniversary of the Founding of the United States Army, June 14, 1775

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          250th Anniversary of the Founding of the United States Navy, October 13, 1775

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          250th Anniversary of the Founding of the United States Marine Corps, November 10, 1775

[ Read the SemperVerus article, The Heavy, Long Gun That Won the American Revolutionary War ]

          249th Anniversary of the Adoption of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776

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          Battle of Trenton, December 26, 1776

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          The Birthday of Henry Clay, April 12, 1777

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          244th Anniversary of General Cornwallis’s Surrender at Yorktown, Oct. 19, 1781

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          National Purple Heart Day, August 7, 1782

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          President George Washington

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          Anniversary of the Ratification of the 1783 Treaty of Paris, January 14, 1784

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          Religious Freedom Day, January 16, 1786

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          National Day of Thanksgiving, November 26, 1789

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          President John Adams

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          President James Madison

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          Bill of Rights Day, Officially Ratified December 15, 1791

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          Anniversary of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, May 14, 1804

          211th Anniversary of the Battle of Chippawa, July 5, 1814

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          Anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans, January 8, 1815

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          President Andrew Jackson

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          National Maritime Day

          Susan B. Anthony

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          Anniversary of the Monroe Doctrine, December 2, 1823

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          Mark Twain’s 190th Birthday, November 30, 1835

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          Anniversary of the Battle of the Alamo, February 23, 1836

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          President Abraham Lincoln

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          Birthday of President William McKinley, January 29, 1843

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          Birthday of Thomas Edison, February 11, 1847

          Birthday of Alexander Graham Bell, March 3, 1847

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          Anniversary of Our Victory in the Mexican-American War, February 2, 1848

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          162nd Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1, 1863

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          Anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863

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          Anniversary of the Surrender at Appomattox, April, 9, 1865

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          160th Anniversary of the United States Secret Service, April 14, 1865

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          Anniversary of the Ratification of the 13th Amendment, December 6, 1865

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          National Pledge of Allegiance Day, December 28, 1892

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          President Theodore Roosevelt

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          Anniversary of our Victory in the Spanish-American War, December 10, 1898

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          Wright Brothers Day, December 17, 1903

          Celebrating the Life of Harriet Tubman, died March 10, 1913

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          235th Birthday of the United States Coast Guard, January 28, 1915

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          Armenian Remembrance Day, April 24, 1915

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          Victory Day for World War I, November 11, 1918

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          Amelia Earhart’s Flight Across the Atlantic, May 20, 1932

          Birthday of General George C. Marshall, Jr.

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          National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, December 7, 1941

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          83rd Anniversary of the Battle of the Coral Sea, May 4, 1942

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          83rd Anniversary of the Battle of Midway, June 4, 1942

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          83rd Anniversary of the Battle of Guadalcanal, August 7, 1942

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          81st Anniversary of D-Day, June 6, 1944

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          81st Anniversary of the Liberation of Guam, July 21, 1944

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          Anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, December 16, 1944

          International Holocaust Remembrance Day

          Anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima, February 19, 1945

[ Read the SemperVerus article, US Presidential Message Commemorating 250 Years of the Bible in America ]

          Victory Day for World War II, May 8, 1945

          80th Anniversary of the Battle of Okinawa, June 22, 1945

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          78th Birthday of the United States Air Force, September 18, 1947

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          Armed Forces Day

          President Dwight D. Eisenhower

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          National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day, July 27, 1953

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          Martin Luther King, Jr., Federal Holiday

          65th Anniversary of the Peace Corps

          National Astronaut Day, May 5, 1961

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          Space Exploration Day, July 20, 1969

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          National Sanctity of Human Life Day

          Anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster, January 28, 1986

          35th Anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope, April 24, 1990

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          Sixth Birthday of the United States Space Force, December 20, 2019

          National Day of Patriotic Devotion, January 20, 2026

          Anti-Communism Week

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          National Black History Month

          Saint Patrick’s Day

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          Loyalty and Law Day

          National Day of Prayer 2025 and 2026

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          Ash Wednesday

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          Holy Week

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          Easter

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          Feast of the Ascension

          Pentecost

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          Global Coptic Day

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          Yom Kippur

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          All Saints’ Day

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          Christmas

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          Epiphany

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