( USA Today)ġ0 NFL Teams Will Play International Games in 2022 - Including Giants vs. While the holiday isn’t honoring the beginning of the 11-year Mexican War of Independence in 1810, it is still a monumental day in Mexico’s history, and a celebration Hispanics carried into the United States. A 2020 survey from YouGov found only 40% of Americans knew May 5 wasn’t commemorating the country’s independence.
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