Word Origin and History for relative Expand. n. late 14c., a relative pronoun, from Old French relatif (13c.), from Late Latin relativus having reference or relation, from Latin relatus, past participle of referre to refer (see refer). Meaning person in the same family first recorded 1650s.
Kazimierz PuÅaski, English Casimir Pulaski (born March 6, 1745, Warsaw, Polandâdied October 11/15, 1779, aboard ship between Savannah, Georgia, and Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.), Polish patriot and U.S. colonial army officer, hero of the Polish anti-Russian insurrection of 1768 (the Confederation of Bar) and of the American Revolution.
New York City has an annual Pulaski Day Parade and Grand Rapids, Michigan holds Pulaski Days at this time. Some areas with large Polish-American populations instead celebrate Casimir Pulaski Day on the first Monday of every March, marking Pulaski's March 4, 1746 birth. Wisconsin, Illinois, Kentucky and Indiana have state recognition of this holiday, which is particularly popular in Chicago and Milwaukee.