When I moved to Virginia, I found it sickly funny that we celebrate Lee-Jackson Day as a state holiday the Friday before Martin Luther King Day. I finally looked up the whole history:

• Since 1889, Robert E. Lee's birthday (January 19th) has been celebrated as a state holiday.
• In 1904, Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson's birthday (January 21) was added to the holiday, and it became Lee-Jackson Day
• In 1978, Virginia began celebrating King's birthday in conjunction with New Year's Day
• In 1983, after being forced by a veto-proof majority, Ronald Regan signed a bill establishing Martin Luther King Day as the third Sunday in January (his actual birthday was January 15th). To comply with the law, Virginia combines the existing Lee-Jackson Day with the new holiday, forming Lee-Jackson-King Day.
• In 2000, after protests regarding the co-celebration of confederate leaders and a civil rights icon, Governor Jim Gilmore lead a successful initiative to split the holiday into two separate holidays, re-establishing Lee-Jackson Day and moving it to the Friday preceding Martin Luther King Day.

Not too many people get Lee-Jackson Day off here, but the DMV closing is enough to remind everyone of it.