Martin Luther King Jr. Day in United States
Martin Luther King Jr. Day in United States is held on January 18. Celebrated on the third Monday in January. This event in the second decade of the month January is annual. 
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King's Birth Name Was Michael, Not Martin. King was born Michael King Jr. on January 15, 1929. In 1934, however, his father, a pastor at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, traveled to Germany and became inspired by the Protestant Reformation leader Martin Luther. As a result, King Sr. changed his own name as well as that of his five-year-old son.
King Received His Doctorate in Systematic Theology. King's 'I Have a Dream' Speech Was Not His First At the Lincoln Memorial.
Six years before his iconic oration at the March on Washington, King was among the civil rights leaders who spoke in the shadow of the Great Emancipator during the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom on May 17, 1957. Before a crowd estimated at between 15,000 and 30,000, King delivered his first national address on the topic of voting rights. His speech, in which he urged America to “give us the ballot,” drew strong reviews and positioned him at the forefront of the civil rights leadership.
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