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  2. Workers' Memorial Day - Wikipedia

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    For years Workers' Memorial Day events have been organized in North America, and then worldwide. Since 1989, trade unions in North America, Asia, Europe and Africa have organized events on April 28. The late Hazards Campaigner Tommy Harte brought Workers' Memorial Day to the UK in 1992 as a day to ‘Remember the Dead: Fight for the Living'.

  3. Sweetest Day - Wikipedia

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    On September 25, 1937, The New York Times reported under Advertising News and Notes that The National Confectioners Association had launched a "movement throughout the candy industry" to rank Sweetest Day with the nationally accepted Mother's Day, Father's Day, and St. Valentine's Day. [8] In 1940, another Sweetest Day was proclaimed on October 19.

  4. Memorial Day - Wikipedia

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    Memorial Day (originally known as Decoration Day) [1] is one of the federal holidays in the United States for honoring and mourning the U.S. military personnel who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces. [2] [3] It is observed on the last Monday of May. Memorial Day is also considered the unofficial beginning of summer in the ...

  5. International Women's Day - Wikipedia

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    María Elena Oddone holding a banner, on International Women's Day in 1984 in Argentina. The banner says "No to motherhood, yes to pleasure". On March 8, 1984 in Argentina, the first International Women's Day demonstrations since the end of the country's military regime took place in the Congressional Plaza, in what is now considered a landmark ...

  6. With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency ...

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    With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade is a 1979 documentary film directed by Lorraine Gray about the General Motors sit-down strike in 1936–1937 that focuses uniquely on the role of women using archival footage and interviews. It provides an inside look at women's roles in the strike.

  7. Mother's Day (United States) - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 14 February 2025. Holiday in the United States Mother's Day Examples of handmade Mother's Day gifts Observed by United States Type Commercial, cultural, religious Observances Holiday card and gift giving, churchgoing accompanied by the distribution of carnations, and family dinners Begins 2nd Sunday of ...

  8. American Gold Star Mothers - Wikipedia

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    Gold Star Mothers listen as Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A. Milley (not pictured) offers remarks during the 80th Gold Star Mother's Day commemorative ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., September 25, 2016. The AGSM is a private 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization [2] that sets its own rules for who is allowed to become a ...

  9. Women Against Pit Closures - Wikipedia

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    Women Against Pit Closures was a political movement supporting miners and their families in the UK miners' strike of 1984–1985. The movement is credited with bringing feminist ideas into practice in an industrial dispute and empowering women to take a public role in a community with a male-dominated sphere.