Texas Independence Day, Monday, March 3 this year, is the celebration of the adoption of the Texas Declaration of Independence on March 2, 1836. With this document, signed by 59 delegates, settlers in Mexican Texas officially declared independence from Mexico and created the Republic of Texas.While the occasion is not a state-observed holiday, it is known as a “partial staffing holiday...
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