murrieta lifestyle: Can it be labor day if I don't plan any labor?
- 09/05/10 06:49 AM
It’s Labor Day weekend and not having any real labor planned I wondered about how the first Monday in September, came to be a holiday.We have religious holidays (Christmas, Easter), historical holidays (Thanksgiving, Independence Day), holidays that celebrate presidents (President’s day), we honor our war heroes (Menorial and Veteran’s day) and other great men (MLK, Columbus), so how did we get a Labor Day? 1. The first Labor Day in the United States was celebrated on September 5, 1882 in New York City.[1]2. It became a federal holiday in 1894, when, following the deaths of a number of workers
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