| 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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| Containment measures (end) - Monday May 4, 2020 Secular holiday :
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| Containment measures (end) - Tuesday May 5, 2020 Secular holiday :
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| End of Ramadan (may be changed to the nearest day) - Sunday May 24, 2020 Muslim, Sufi :
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| End of Ramadan (may be changed to the nearest day) - Monday May 25, 2020 Muslim, Sufi :
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| Children's Day - Wednesday May 27, 2020 School holidays :
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| Regional holiday - Saturday May 30, 2020 Secular holiday : To honour the Igbo who had lost their lives in sectarian killings in the country from 1945 to date, including the 1967-1970 war. in Biafra only
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| Democracy Day - Friday June 12, 2020 Secular holiday : The Obasanjo government has decided to make a public holiday out of Democracy Day in an attempt of guarding the achievements made in 1999 and celebrating itself as the symbol of Nigerian democracy.
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| End of school year - Friday July 17, 2020 School holidays :
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| Eid-ul-Adha - Feast of the Sacrifice (may be changed to the nearest day) - Saturday August 1, 2020 Muslim, Sufi : Also written Id al'Adha (or Eid Al-Adha) is the Feast of the Sacrifice , the second main celebration of Islam. It takes place on the tenth day of the twelfth -- last month of the Islamic calendar and celebrates Abraham's (also written Ibrahim) willingness to sacrifice his son in obedience to God. Muslims make their annual pilgrimage, or the Hajj , to Makkah (Mecca) in Saudi Arabia.
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