Show our national holidays holiday if national holiday is to be interpreted as a holiday declared by the federal government then we observe no such holidays for the legal declaration or observance of holidays is a matter entirely up to the state or territorial government of the total number of legal or public holidays observed in various portions of the U S only seven may be said to be national in the sense that all 48 states concur in their observance these are new years day birthday independence day labor day armistice day thanksgiving though not eel cel 4 on the same day in each state and christmas i |