There are 10 mistakes! The third monday of January is the annual observance of the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. King was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. A minister and civil rights leader, King lead a bus boycott in Montgomery Alabama, in 1955. Devoted to nonviolence, he all so led a pieceful march in Washington, D. C, during which he delivered his famous "I Have a Dream speech King was kill in Tennessee in April 1968.