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Lee–Jackson–King Day was a holiday celebrated in the Commonwealth of Virginia from 1984 to 2000.Robert E. Lee’s birthday (January 19 1807) has been celebrated as a Virginia holiday since 1889. In 1904 the legislature added the birthday of Thomas J. Stonewall Jackson (January 21 1824) to the holiday and Lee–Jackson Day was born.In 1983 the United States Congress declared January 15 to be a national holiday in honor of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.