September

September Holidays

First Monday in September is Labor Day

9/5 National Cheese Pizza Day

9/15-10/15 Hispanic Heritage Month

9/15 National Make a Hat Day

9/16 Mexican Independence Day

9/19 International Talk Like a Pirate Day

9/23 Native American Day

9/28 Ask a Stupid Question Day

Hispanic Week was established by legislation sponsored by Rep. Edward R. Roybal of Los Angeles and was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson in 1968.[3][4][5] In 1988, the commemorative week was expanded to a month (September 15 to October 15) by legislation sponsored by Rep. Esteban Edward Torres (D–CA), amended by Senator Paul Simon, and signed into law by President Ronald Reagan.[3]

September 15 was chosen as the starting point for the commemoration because it is the anniversary of the Cry of Dolores (early morning, 16 September 1810), which marked the start of the Mexican War of Independence and thus resulted (in 1821) in independence for the New Spain Colony (now Mexico and the Central American nations of Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Honduras, and Nicaragua) which became the Federal Republic of Central America.