Video: 'Uniform Monday Holiday Act'

(Friday, June 28, 1968, 12:45 p.m. EDT) — U.S. President Lyndon Johnson today signed the Uniform Monday Holiday Act, which moved commemorations for Washington’s Birthday, Memorial Day, Columbus Day and Veterans Day to Monday, creating three-day holiday weekends beginning in 1971.

Veterans Day was removed from this list of “always-on-Monday” holidays when it was moved back to its traditional date of November 11, by act of Congress in 1975, effective 1978.