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Article History

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Invalidated site: The Guardian - May Day is not about maypoles: the history of international workers' day. Nov 11, 2026
Article thoroughly revised and updated. Apr 23, 2026
Add new Web site: Al Jazeera - May 1 Labour Day: What is International Workers’ Day? Jul 25, 2025
Add new Web site: Central Intelligence Agency - Spy Pilot: Francis Gary Powers, The U-2 Incident, and a Controversial Cold War Legacy (PDF). Apr 02, 2025
Questions and answers added. Mar 19, 2025
Add new Web site: NPR - What is May Day? For the most part, the opposite of capitalism. Dec 19, 2024
Add new Web site: National Museum of American History - May Day: America's traditional, radical, complicated holiday, Part 1. Oct 30, 2024
Add new Web site: The Guardian - May Day is not about maypoles: the history of international workers' day. Sep 16, 2024
Links added. Nov 10, 2023
Media added. Aug 09, 2023
Add new Web site: Encyclopedia of Chicago - Haymarket and May Day. Oct 03, 2022
Date of holiday added. Mar 01, 2022
Corrected display issue. Mar 15, 2021
Media added. Sep 03, 2020
Audio describing the celebration of May Day added. Apr 28, 2020
Added image of May Day march in New York City. Apr 29, 2011
Article revised and updated. Apr 29, 2011
Revised discussion of the origins of Labor Day, including changing the date that it became a U.S. federal holiday from 1889 to 1894. Sep 01, 2010
Media added. Aug 26, 2010
New article added. Jul 16, 2008
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