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Martin Luther King Day is held every year on the third Monday of January in honor of one of the greatest civil rights leaders the world has ever known. Martin Luther King Day is also known as Martin Luther King’s birthday which was January 15th 1929. Monday January 18 2010, this year he will be honored for achieving many accomplishments in his life before it was tragically cut short on the evening of April 4, 1968. King is recognized all over the world for his very famous speech “I Have a Dream” he made to 250,000 Americans. He is most well-known for his civil rights campaigns to end racial segregation on public transport and for racial equality in the United States. During his lifetime King received 5 honorary degrees and was named the Man of the year in a 1963 issue of Time Magazine. He was also the youngest person to receive the noble peace prize in 1964.