may day

     

May Day occurs on May 1 an refers to any of several public holidays. In many countries, May Day is synonymous with International Workers' Day, or Labour Day, which celebrates the social and economic achievements of the labour movement. As a day of celebration the holiday has ancient origins, and it can relate to many customs that have survived into modern times. Many of these customs are due to May Day being a cross-quarter day, meaning that (in the Northern Hemisphere where it is almost exclusively celebrated) it falls approximately halfway between the spring equinox and summer solstice.

Trivia about may day

  • Holiday celebrating the first of the fifth month, or an S.O.S.
  • In 1889 this day was designated a labor holiday by the Second Socialist International
  • This spring festival sounds like a ship's distress call
  • It's the day in 1973 the parade watchers seen here were out & about:(Leonid Brezhnev, among others)
  • Customs on this 121st day of the year include dancing around a pole & giving baskets to friends & family
  • (Cheryl of the Clue Crew waxes eloquent in front of Lenin's tomb in Moscow, Russia.) Soviet leaders reviewed a parade of military hardware from Lenin's tomb each year on this day, a Socialist holiday since 1889