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International Workers Day is 1st May. In the UK, we have the closest Monday as a Public Holiday, and this is common throughout most of the world (some have the actual fixed date as a holiday).
The USA, and I think Canada, have it at this time of year because originally they were worried that Mayday fell on the anniversary of major labor riots, and so would encourage undesirable commemorative happenings.
Though actually I think that public holidays often happen at around certain times of year because people need a break then. Our UK current "late spring holiday" at the end of May more-or-less replaces the "Whitsun" bank holiday previously 50 days after Easter (so, variable date), and the previous "Oak Apple Day" (Restoration Day, celebrating the Restoration of the Monarchy, 29th May, abolished in 1859).
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. ... Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night devoid of stars." Martin Luther King
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