California Admission Day
California Admission Day | |
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Observed by | California, United States |
Date | September 9 |
Next time | September 9, 2017 |
Frequency | annual |
California Admission Day is a legal holiday in the state of California in the United States. It is celebrated as a day of observance annually on September 9 to commemorate the anniversary of the 1850 admission of California into the Union as the thirty-first state.
California was admitted to the Union as part of the Compromise of 1850 as a free state after being ceded to the United States by Mexico at the end of the Mexican–American War in 1848.
See also
- Admission Day Monument in San Francisco
External links
- Governor Schwarzenegger Proclaims September 9 "Admission Day"(link broken, unable to find functioning links on www.bearflagmuseum.org)
- California Admission Day September 9, 1850
- California Legal Holidays Laws
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