May Day - a May 1st traditional public holiday and ancient Northern Hemisphere spring festival in many cultures - AND - International Workers Day, recognition of the working class and many bloody battles and lives lost for rights in a complex largely forgotten history dating back over 1.5 centuries.

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Wikipedia has sanitized their article on May Day even worse than the History Channel account: https://www.history.com/topics/holidays/history-of-may-day

https://www.britannica.com/topic/May-Day-international-observance

Industrial Workers Of The World, A Union For All Workers, The Brief Origins of May Day, By Eric Chase - 1993. https://iww.org/history/library/misc/origins_of_mayday

May Day 2019 [Around The World]: Workers demand higher wages, rights, respect: https://www.apnews.com/f3ad07830d0549d4b94a955d0d44c6f2

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=May+Day