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Being a culturally diverse country, there are many festivals celebrated in various regions across the country. There are only three national holidays declared by Government of India: Republic Day (26 January), Independence Day (15 August), and Gandhi Jayanti (2 October). Apart from this, certain holidays which are celebrated nationally are ...
Labour Day. Labor Day is a federal holiday in the United States celebrated on the first Monday of September to honor and recognize the American labor movement and the works and contributions of laborers to the development and achievements in the United States. [1][2][3] Beginning in the late 19th century, as the trade union and labor movements ...
Labour Day is a national holiday in the Bahamas, celebrated on the first Friday in June in order to create a long weekend for workers. [7] The traditional date of Labour Day in the Bahamas, however, is 7 June, in commemoration of a significant workers' strike that began on that day in 1942.
On September 5, 1882, New York City union leaders organized what is now considered the country's first Labor Day parade, according to National Geographic. On this day, 10,000 workers took unpaid ...
Its origins date back to the late 19th century, when activists first sought to establish a day to pay tribute to workers. The first Labor Day celebration in the U.S. took place in New York City on ...
April 9: National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day. April 14: Pan American Day and Pan American Week. May 1: Loyalty Day. May 1: Law Day, U.S.A. May 15: Peace Officers Memorial Day. 1st Thursday in May: National Day of Prayer. 2nd Friday in May: Military Spouse Day. 2nd Sunday in May: Mother's Day.
Nearly every nonessential state and federal government office will be closed on Monday in celebration of Labor Day. Labor Day began as a state holiday in the late 1800s, with 23 states adopting it ...
Gujarat Day. 1 May. Formation (1960) 1924 – Organised as States of Western India Agency. 1944 – Reorganised as Baroda, Western India and Gujarat States Agency. 1948 – Organized as State of Saurashtra and United State of Kathiawar. 1956 – Merged with State of Bombay per States Reorganisation Act, 1956.