Show Only Five National Holidays in America Although individual states observe man many holidays every year ear there are only five Ove days s 's a n year which are ore celebrated cele cole el e everywhere In the United States SIMes ntH and Its possessions Joss explains Grace H Robinson In In an n article in Lib Lih erty These holidays are New Years Year's day Washington's birthday Independence day tiny Thanksgiving and Christmas Miss Iti Robinson binson points point out Some of the mote more important holidays holl- holl days which ole are not celebrated by nil the tile states the tile writer explains tire Labor day n which Is kept I b by 40 states Election day by 43 Memorial l day doy b by BS HS Columbus day by 35 33 Lincoln's birthday n by 20 26 and Armistice do day by hV 23 In the South the birthdays of or J Jefferson Davis and Robert E. E Lee are still observed by ten on and nine states tote re respectively and und four states celebrate April 20 26 as us Confederate Memorial Memoria day |