![[photo, Inner Harbor, Baltimore, Maryland]](/msa/mdmanual/36loc/bcity/images/1198-1-3231.jpg)
Maryland's legal holidays include each statewide general election day, and each other day that the President of the United States or the Governor designates for general cessation of business. If a holiday falls on a Sunday, it is observed the following Monday (Chapter 422, Acts of 1994; Code 1957, Art. 1, sec. 27).
Although holiday generally means "a day marked by a general suspension of work in commemoration of an event", in Maryland, this is not always the case.
Inner Harbor, Baltimore, Maryland, October 2008. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.
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| January 2 (Monday) | New Year's Day (observed) |
| January 16 (Monday) | Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Birthday* (observed) |
| February 12 (Sunday) | Lincoln's Birthday |
| February 20 (third Monday) | Washington's Birthday (Presidents' Day) (observed) |
| March 25 (Sunday) | Maryland Day |
| April 6 | Good Friday |
| May 28 (Monday) | Memorial Day |
| July 4 (Wednesday) | Independence Day |
| September 3 (first Monday) | Labor Day |
| September 12 (Wednesday) | Defenders' Day |
| October 8 (Monday) | Columbus Day* (observed) |
| November 11 (Sunday) | Veterans' Day |
| November 22 (fourth Thursday) | Thanksgiving Day |
| November 23 (Friday after Thanksgiving) | American Indian Heritage Day |
| December 25 (Tuesday) | Christmas Day |
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