St Piran's Day been other calls and petitions for a Cornish public holiday on 5 March. It has been suggested that a move from the May Day Bank Holiday to a St Piran's Day Bank Holiday in Cornwall would be worth £20–35 million to the Cornish economy. In December 2011 Cornwall Council voted in favour of asking the government to make St Piran's Day a bank holiday in Cornwall, should they decide to move the May Day holiday. A petition for a county wide day off at the Cornwall council website, closed with only 363 signatures, and fell far short of the 50,000
Karl S. Day 1944. Karl S. Day was born on May 30, 1896 in Friendship, Indiana as the son of Franklin G. and Edith R. Day. Following the high school, Day enrolled the Ohio State University in Athens, Ohio and graduated with Bachelor degree in 1917. He entered the Marine Corps service in May 1917 and was commissioned Second lieutenant. Day was subsequently sent to the Officer School at Quantico for further training and following the graduation, he was ordered for the flight training. He was meantime promoted to the rank of First lieutenant. Day sailed to France in July 1918 as recently