The US Embassy in Mongolia stated on its Twitter page that Monday or January 21st is a holiday due to Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was established as a U.S. federal holiday in 1986. Hundreds of streets in the U.S. have been renamed in his honor.

The best known civil right activist Martin Luther King was assassinated on April 4th 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. The human rights activist Martin Luther King was named as a symbol of human rights activism and leader of the African-American Civil Rights Movement in American history.