February 12th is Lincoln's Birthday

Lincoln Gates

Lincoln's Birthday is a legal, public holiday in some U.S. states, observed on the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth on February 12, 1809. Arizona, California, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, and New York observe the holiday. New Jersey observed the holiday until September 29, 2008 when New Jersey enacted The Public Employee Pension and Benefits Reform Act of 2008, which eliminated the holiday.

In other states, Lincoln's birthday is not celebrated separately, as a stand-alone holiday. Instead Lincoln's Birthday is combined with a celebration of President George Washington's birthday (also in February) and celebrated either as Washington's Birthday or as Presidents' Day, and on the third Monday of February, simultaneously with the Federal holiday, instead on Washington's or Lincoln's actual birthday,