President’s Day
ESL 5 Culture Study
Presenter: Hsiao,Hsin-Chieh
Instructor: Lyra Riabov
Contents
Origin of the
President’s Day
George Washington’s
Biographical
information
Historic background:
 Revolutionary war
and Independence
 First President of
the USA
Abraham Lincoln’s
Biographical
information
Historic background:
Civil war and Abolition
of Slavery
Assassination of
Abraham Lincoln
Origin of the President’s Day
George Washington, the
first president of the USA
was born on February 11,
1789
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th
president of the USA, was
born on February 12th,
1809
These birthdays were
merged into President's
Day on the third Monday
of February
George Washington’s Biographical information
First President 16891797
Born: February 22,
1732 in Westmoreland
County, Virginia
Died: December 14,
1799 in Mount Vernon,
Virginia
Married to Martha
Dandridge Washington
Historic background:
Revolutionary war and Independence
First President of the USA
 At the age of 20 he was appointed adjutant in the Va.
Militia militiaman, for the next three years, he fought in
the wars against the French and Indians
 Washington was selected as commander in chief of the
Continental Army on July 3, 1775
 He was the leader of the Revolutionary war against the
British
until the surrender of British at Yorktown, Va., on Oct. 19,
1781 to get the Independence of USA
 On April 30, 1789, George Washington was elected as
the first President of the United States in Federal Hall on
Wall Street in New York
 He was reelected in 1792,and retirement on Sept. 17,
1796
Washington Monument
Federal Hall
Abraham Lincoln’s Biographical information
 Sixteenth President 18611865
 Born: February 12, 1809, in
Hodgenville, Hardin County,
Kentucky
 Died: April 15, 1865. Lincoln
died the morning after being
shot at Ford's Theatre in
Washington, D.C. by John
Wilkes Booth, an actor.
 Married to Mary Todd Lincoln
Historic background:
Civil war and Abolition of Slavery
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
 He won the election of President in 1860
 The Civil war began in 1861 because the south states
against the abolition of slavery
 On January 1, 1863, he issued the Emancipation
Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves
 Lincoln won re-election in 1864
 The Civil war end in 1865 and the northern won
 On Friday, April 14, 1865, Lincoln was assassinated at
Ford's Theatre in Washington by John Wilkes Booth
Lincoln Memorial
Ford’s Theatre
Petersen House
Dr. Sun Yat-sen ‘s Birthday
 Born on November 12, 1866
 Leader of the revolutionary
crusade to overthrow the
Manchu dynasty
 Established the first republic
country in Asia
 December 25, 1911, Sun was
elected provisional president
of the new republic country
 Sun died of liver cancer on
March 12, 1925, at the age of
60 in Peking
National Dr. Sun Yatsen Memorial Hall
President Chiang Kai-shek‘s Birthday
 Born on October 31, 1887
 Chiang became commander-in-chief of the
National Revolutionary Forces
 Leader the Northern Expedition to subjugate
the feuding warlords and reunion China in
June 1928
 Chiang assumed the leadership of this eightyear War of Resistance against Japan, until
on August 14, 1945, Japan announced its
formal surrender
 Chiang served as the president of the
Republic of China from March 1948 until he
died
 Died of heart attack on April 5, 1975, at the
age of 89 in Taipei
Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall
References
Origin of the President’s Day
http://gi.grolier.com/presidents/aae/side/pofus.html
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl
George Washington’s
http://www.picturesof.net/POSTERS/hldypost/hldy12.html
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/
http://www.information-entertainment.com/Holidays/presday.html
http://www.usembassy.de/usa/holidays-presidents.htm
Abraham Lincoln’s
http://www.picturesof.net/
http://www.whitehouse.gov/
http://www.patriotism.org/presidents_day/
http://www.learnersonline.com/weekly/lessons02/week7/
Sun Yat-sen
http://www.yatsen.gov.tw/
http://fungchiwood.tripod.com/DrSun.html
Chiang Kai-shek‘s
http://www.cksmh.gov.tw/