“NATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM DAY”
(UNITED STATES)
(commemorates the Virginia General Assembly’s adoption of Thomas Jefferson’s landmark “Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom” on 16 January 1786)
(that statute became the basis for the “establishment clause” of the “First Amendment” of the U.S. Constitution and led to “freedom of religion” for all Americans)
(“Religious Freedom Day” is officially proclaimed on January 16 each year by an annual statement by the “President of the United States”)