Today is the Martin Luther King Day, It means it's holiday in US today.
Did you know that ? I knew it for the first time in this morning when I was checking the web-news Tx Biz News at my desk after just arriving at the office. (This morning, I missed watching the news which is the plogran of TV Tokyo starting at 5:45 every weekday. ) I was a little surpirised to know it because I wrote down to this blog about the movie of his famouse speech, '' I have a dream '' just the day before yesterday.
Wikipedia tells about the day as below.
---Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a United States holiday marking the birthdate of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. , observed on the third Monday of January each year, around the time of King's birthday, January 15. It is one of four United States federal holidays to commemorate an individual person.---
(You can know more about him with Wikipedia,)