U.S. stock market will be closed for Luther

Martin Luther King

January 20--The U.S. stock market will be closed for a day as Luther of the United States (Martin Luther King, Jr). January 21 U.S. stocks will resume normal trading.

January 1986 U.S. President Ronald Reagan signed the decree, the third Monday each year in January for Luther to commemorate the civil Rights movement leader, and the day as a federal statutory holiday. There are only three examples of official holidays in the United States, namely, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington Day (also known as President), and Martin Luther King Jr. anniversary. Kim is the only person who has ever enjoyed the privilege of being a non-American president and the only African-American to enjoy the privilege.

Kim was born in Atlanta, Georgia, January 15, 1929. August 28, 1963 he made a famous speech "I Have a Dream". Under his and many civil rights leaders, the 1964 Congress passed the Civil Rights Act, declaring apartheid and discriminatory policies illegal. April 4, 1968, King in Tennessee Memphis led the strike movement, in the hotel balcony was shot by an assassin in the throat to death, only 39 years old.