| Labor Day/May Day - Friday May 1, 2020 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 .
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| Ascension holiday (beginning) - Wednesday May 20, 2020 School holidays :
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| Ascension - Thursday May 21, 2020 Catholic or protestant : Forty days after Easter, always on a Thursday. After his resurrection, Jesus appeared before his disciples and gathered them to tell them to baptize and spread the good word. He then ascended to heaven on a cloud.
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| Ascension holiday (end) - Monday May 25, 2020 School holidays :
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| Pentecost holiday (beginning) - Friday May 29, 2020 School holidays :
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| Pentecost - Sunday May 31, 2020 Catholic or protestant : Not a paid holiday
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| Whit Monday - Monday June 1, 2020 Catholic or protestant : Seven weeks after Easter Monday -Marking the day the Holy Spirit entered the disciples left behind and the beginning of their ministry.
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| Pentecost holiday (end) - Tuesday June 2, 2020 School holidays :
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| Corpus Christi - Thursday June 11, 2020 Catholic : For six hundred years that feast was observed on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday, but in 1970 the new Roman Missal, while retaining that day for some countries, provided that in others the feast be observed on the Sunday after Trinity.
Commemorates the Last supper. Pope Urban IV ordered the observance of such a feast in 1264, and in the following century it became universal in the Western Church.
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| Motorcycle Grand Prix - Sunday June 21, 2020 Sports events : Www.motogp.com 2020 edition confirmed
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| Summer holiday (beginning) - Friday July 17, 2020 School holidays :
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| Summer holiday (end) - Monday August 31, 2020 School holidays :
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