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Labor Day falls on September 5th this year (2022). Labor Day is one of the busiest travel days of the year. The National Hot Dog & Sausage Council (yes, that’s a real thing), says 7 billion hot dogs are eaten from Memorial Day to Labor Day. That’s only three months! You may have heard the saying “You can’t wear white after Labor Day”, and not known why. The origins of this saying comes from the 1800s. Back then, wearing lighter colors was a way to distinguish the different social classes. Wealt...
1. Memorial Day was originally known as Decoration Day. This is because soldiers used to decorate the graves of their fallen comrades with flags or flowers.
2. This holiday was created after the Civil War ended in 1865. So many soldiers lost their lives, it was necessary to create national cemeteries. Once these were created, Americans started holding rituals each spring for the fallen by decorating their graves.
3. Memorial Day is always at the end of May because by this time all the flowers ar...The holiday of pranksters goes back centuries. In the 16th century, Pope Gregory XIII changed the standardized calendar from the Julian Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar (the one we still use today). The Gregorian Calendar added more days to the year, so this effectively made the new year celebration on Jan 1st instead of at the end of March.
In the 16th century, news spread very slowly compared to what we are used to, so not everyone was aware of the change. And people would see others celebra...
Presidents’ Day has been celebrated for centuries but it wasn’t always an official holiday or known as Presidents’ Day.
The idea for celebrating Presidents goes back to the year 1800. George Washington died in December of 1799, and every year after that his February 22nd birthday was a day of remembrance. In the 1800s, Washington was known as the most important figure in American history. There was a big celebration for the centennial of his birthday, and the Washington Monument started to be bu...
Celebrating the New Year in Times Square has been a tradition since The New York Times opened a new headquarters in 1903. It was this commemorative celebration that kickstarted the annual celebrations on New Year’s Eve. They launched fireworks each year. But after New York Times owner Adolph Ochs successfully lobbied to have what was then known as “Longacre Square” changed to “Times Square”, he wanted an even bigger spectacle.
In 1907, an electrician was hired to build a lit ball to be lowered d...This year Labor Day is on Monday, September 6, 2021. Many people think of Labor Day as the end of summer vacation which it is, but it was created for a different reason entirely: to celebrate workers and their achievements.
During the late 19th century, the average American worked 12-hour days and seven days a week to earn a basic living. This was also a time when children at the age of 5 were working in mills, factories and mines across the country. These children were paid a fraction of the wa...Father’s Day is quickly approaching, so make sure to plan something to make him feel special! This year Father’s Day is June 20th.
In 1909 Sonora Smart Dodd, a woman from Spokane, Washington, attempted to create an official equivalent to Mother’s Day for fathers. She gathered support from local churches, the YMCA and government officials. Washington State celebrated its first statewide Father’s Day on June 9th, 1910.
Not long after the first Father’s Day, it slowly caught on. In 1916 President W...- 1
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