Although May Day has its origins in the United States in a historical eventāa violent confrontation in Haymarket Square, Chicago, on May 4, 1886, between strikers and policeārelated to labor rights, it is not a U.S. federal holiday. In the United States and Canada, a similar observance known as Labor Day occurs on the first Monday of September.
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