Many Americans celebrate Halloween on October 31. Celebrations include costume parties and trick-or-treating. Halloween originated as a pagan festival in parts of Northern Europe, particularly around what is now the United Kingdom. Many European cultural traditions hold that Halloween is ...

First Day of Native American Heritage Month in the U.S. In 1990 Congress passed and President George H. W. Bush signed into law a joint resolution designating the month of November as the first National American Indian Heritage Month (also ...