United States — In addition to this being Inauguration Day this year, it is also Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Dr. King was an American Baptist minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. King advanced civil rights for people of color in the United States through the use of nonviolent resistance and nonviolent civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws and other forms of discrimination.
Mail will not be delivered, and most government offices are closed. Some banks have also elected to close.
