Presidents Day 2021: What’s open, closed in and around Atlanta

10 Facts , About Presidents' Day.1. , Presidents' Day occurs on the third Monday of February.2, Originally, the holiday was meant to celebrate President George Washington's birthday. .3. , In 1879, President Rutherford B. Hayes signed the observance of Washington's birthday into law.4. , It was the first nationally recognized federal bank holiday to celebrate the life of an American.Martin Luther King Jr. Day was the second.5. , In 1932, the holiday was used to reinstate the Purple Heart, which was created by Washington to honor wounded or killed soldiers.6. , President Richard Nixon changed the date of the celebration in 1971 under the Uniform Monday Holiday Act.The Act was an attempt to have more federal holidays fall on Mondays.7. , It also combined the celebration of Washington's birthday with Abraham Lincoln's birthday.8. , By the 1980s, Americans began to refer to the holiday as "Presidents' Day" because marketers used the terms to advertise sales over three-day weekends.9, By the early 2000s, half of the U.S. changed the name to "Presidents' Day" on their calendars.10, Today, it is considered to be a patriotic day of celebrating presidents of the past and present