Nah it took 16 years u jay!
The first year Martin Luther King, Jr's birthday was celebrated as a national holiday was 1986. It has been celebrated for 28 years.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on January 18, 2010
Eighteen years after his death.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in 1968 and President Ronald Reagan signed the bill making his birthday a national holiday in 1983. It was 15 years from the year he was assassinated to the year his birthday was declared a national holiday.
Martin Luther King Day was first observed as a national holiday on January 20, 1986.
Martin Luther King´s teen years were like this: : D, :-/, :(, :); Aha
In 1983, congress passed a federal holiday honoring King. The late Mrs. Coretta Scott King fought for many years for his birthday to become a holiday.
It is Valentines Day.
what happened 25 years ago with regard to martin Luther king
Martin Luther was born on November 10, 1483 and died on February 18, 1546. Martin Luther would have been 62 years old at the time of death or 531 years old today.
Martin Luther king was 39 when he died
Martin luther King was only 15 years old