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Revision as of 17:03, 29 January 2006 by Charles Matthews (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)March 17 in Suffolk County, Massachusetts was Evacuation Day, an official holiday commemorating the evacuation of the city of Boston by British forces on March 17, 1776 (see Siege of Boston or American Revolutionary War). Evacuation Day is also observed in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Somerville, Massachusetts. The holiday was first proclaimed in 1941.
March 17 is St. Patrick's Day, giving Boston's large Irish and Irish-descended population an additional reason to celebrate. Typically, residents assume that Evacuation Day is celebrated since St. Patrick's Day could not be made a legal holiday.
For other uses of the term, see Evacuation Day.
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