Solar eclipse
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Monday april 8, 2024
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Labor Day/May Day
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Wednesday may 1, 2024
Secular holiday : Chicago, Saturday May 1st, 1886: 350,000 workers go on strike to call for an 8-hour working day. Industries are paralyzed nationwide. On Monday, as demonstrations go on, the police open fire. On Tuesday, Chicago is again on strike. Following a bomb launched against them, the police shoot again. 12 dead, of which 7 policemen. 8 anarchists will be condemned and executed. In 1889, the Socialist International Movement met in Paris and declared this day international workers' day . The Soviets will follow suit, just as the Nazis. In France, under the Vichy regime (1940-1944), the celebration is renamed Labour Day .
Regional holiday
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Sunday may 5, 2024
Secular holiday : Cinco de Mayo: Defeating the Napoleon III cavalry, Texan general Zaragosa started a military cooperation with Mexico, leading to the supremacy of an army that would win, 14 months later, the battle of Gettysburg, ending the American Civil War. in Puebla State only
Public holiday
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Sunday june 2, 2024
Secular holiday : Election day
Independence Day
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Monday september 16, 2024
Secular holiday : Commemorates the start of the Independence War by Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla in 1810 Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday [Wikipedia]
Inauguration Day
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Tuesday october 1, 2024
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