To those that don't know what that means: Happy Asian Pacific American Heritage month!
May is APA month. It started in 1977 as a week to celebrate Asian/Pacific Islander heritage.
In 1990, President H. W. Bush made it a month.
The month of May was chosen because on May 7, 1843, the first Japanese immigrants came to the US. The transcontinental railroad was also finished in May, on the 10th of 1869. Hopefully you already know that the majority of the the tracks were laid down by Chinese immigrants.
For more information, let me direct you to: http://www.asian-nation.org/heritage.shtml
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