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Facts about May Day


May Day is a public holiday celebrated on 1st May every year.

•It’s a festival of Spring and a current traditional spring holiday in many European cultures. Dances, singing, and cakes are part of this festival.


It is another important thing to celebrate on May 1st, It is a public holiday in all countries on account of hard-work and protest by workers.

Workers wanted 8-hour work in a day, therefore, worldwide protest rose in which many people were injured and killed.

Today, in memory of Haymarket affair in Chicago, everyone enjoys weekends off and celebrates May Day every year.

In fact, traditionally that's what May Day was supposed to celebrate. Labor Day was created to try and avoid public protests on May 1st, so we'd forget :(




In the late 19th century, May 1st day was chosen as date for the international workers day by the socialists and communists of the second international to commemorate the Haymarket affair in Chicago.



Some labor unions and organizations hold mass protests for working 8 hours in a day.
Originally it was a political holiday known as the day of international solidarity but after it became a holiday to relax and rejuvenate.



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