Abraham Lincoln’s 215th Birthday Celebration - Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park (U.S. National Park Service) (2024)

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Please join us in Hodgenville as we celebrate Abraham Lincoln's 215th Birthday on Monday, February 12, 2024. The annual Lincoln Days Celebration Luncheon commemorating the birth of Abraham Lincoln will be Monday, February 12, 2024 in The Lincoln Museum Community Room (56 Lincoln Square) from 12 noon to 1 pm.

Only the foundation of a Lincoln cabin remains in Indiana. The National Park Service maintains the homestead property and its living history farm as the Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial.

Lincoln's Birthday was never a U.S. Federal Government holiday. The third Monday in February remains only "Washington's Birthday" in federal law.

The states that currently have Lincoln-birthday holidays on February 12 include Illinois (Lincoln's adopted home state), California, Connecticut, Missouri, and New York. There have been several attempts in Congress to get Lincoln his own national holiday, but none have succeeded.

If Lincoln were still alive today due to some sort of hypothetical variable that enabled him to live forever, he would be 219 years, 9 months, and 16 days old, or 78086 days in total.

There were ten known descendants of Abraham Lincoln. The president's branch of the family is believed to have been extinct since its last undisputed, legal and known descendant, Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, died on December 24, 1985, without any acknowledged children.

Robert Todd Lincoln, the eldest son of President Abraham Lincoln, was born August 1, 1843. He was twenty-one years old when his father was assassinated. Robert was the only one of the Lincoln sons who lived into adulthood, and he distinguished himself in many ways.

Those efforts included temporarily removing Lincoln's body from the tomb. From 1865 to 1901, Lincoln's coffin was moved 17 times due to construction and fears for the safety of the president's remains. There was actually a plot in 1876 to steal the body and hold it for ransom.

Official state holidays. Lincoln's Birthday, February 12, was never a federal holiday, but nearly half the state governments have officially renamed their observances "Presidents' Day", "Washington and Lincoln Day", or other such designations.

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On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was shot by John Wilkes Booth while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. Shot in the head as he watched the play, Lincoln died of his wounds the following day at 7:22 am in the Petersen House opposite ...

Presidents' Day: February 19, 2024.

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We wanted to remind you that Monday, February 19, 2024 is Presidents' Day (a federal banking holiday).

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day." (4) The date corresponding with the second new moon following the winter solstice, or the third new moon following the winter solstice should an intercalary month intervene, known as "Lunar New Year." (5) February 12, known as "Lincoln Day." (6) The third Monday in February.

In 1828, at the age of nineteen, he accompanied a produce-laden flatboat down the Mississippi River to New Orleans, Louisiana—his first visit to a large city--and then walked back home. Two years later, trying to avoid health and finance troubles, Lincoln's father moved the family moved to Illinois.

Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, near Hodgenville, Kentucky, U.S.—died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the 16th president of the United States (1861–65), who preserved the Union during the American Civil War and brought about the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States.

Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, and became America's 16th president in 1860.

Thomas "Tad" Lincoln

The youngest of the Lincoln children, Tad Lincoln was born in 1853. Tad was the most wild and mischieveous of the Lincoln children, bringing both fun and mayhem to the Lincoln Home and later the White House. He would pass away at the age of eighteen, several years after his father's death.