For the third time in U.S. history, Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Inauguration Day will both be held on the same day.

With the date of presidential inaugurations and Martin Luther King Jr. Day both set by law, the two have - and will - keep ...

It was first proposed four days after King's 1968 assassination outside a Memphis motel. It took 15 years until it became a ...

Dr. King famously said ... Later, he joined forces with President Bill Clinton to address the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. His son, President George W. Bush, worked with me to make financial ...

Only once before since it became a federal holiday has Martin Luther King Jr. Day fallen on the same day as a presidential inauguration. That was in 1997, when Bill Clinton took the oath of office ...

Federal holidays collide in a rare overlap today, which is both Inauguration Day and Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The two ...

The United States is paying tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's legacy the same day a new president was inaugurated.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Inauguration Day will be ... coincided with a president’s inauguration. President Bill Clinton and President Barack Obama were both sworn in for their second ...

The life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King ... succeeded in making Martin Luther King Jr. Day a nationally observed holiday. On Nov. 2, 1983, Reagan signed a bill making the third Monday ...

Monday marks not only President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration, but also Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal holiday honoring the late civil rights leader. Martin Luther King III, human ...