8 surprising facts about May Day
Workers all over the world have been celebrating May Day on the first day of May, which shares a date with International Workers’ Day since the 1880s.
To most people in the Northern Hemisphere, May Day conjures images of brightly colored twirling ribbons and promises of warm days ahead. 4. Puritans in the United Stated looked down on May Day. As a result, the holiday is not celebrated as extensively in the United States. 6. In May of 1886, activists in the United States organized a national strike to promote an eight-hour workday. One of the protests, in Chicago’s Haymarket Square, turned violent, with days of clashes between police and demonstrators. The incident came to be known as the Haymarket Affair.
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