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It is truly an amazing and special feeling when you see something beautiful in a shopping mall or online shopping site and you get it for yourself. I feel really proud and happy when I can buy some stuff for me.

Shopping is no less than therapy. You might have heard people saying I have just had retail therapy. The kind of happiness, excitement, and satisfaction that comes with shopping is real and undeniable.

Shopping enables you to try new brands and products and have many new experiences. Also, consumer demand increases the competition in the market, which contributes to the growth of economic activities.

Governments are deemed to succeed or fail by how well they make money go round, regardless of whether it serves any useful purpose. They regard it as a sacred duty to encourage the country’s most revolting spectacle: the annual feeding frenzy in which shoppers queue all night, then stampede into the shops, elbow, trample and sometimes fight to be the first to carry off some designer junk which will go into landfill before the sales next year. The madder the orgy, the greater the triumph of economic management.
George Monbiot

Happiness is not in money but in shopping.
Marilyn Monroe

For me, shopping is a way to unwind.
Stacey Dooley

Shopping is my cardio.
Carrie Bradshaw

I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist.
Tammy Faye Bakker

I need these cashmere gloves because it’s winter… and I have hands.
Rebecca Bloomwood

I love shopping. There is a little bit of magic found in buying something new. It is instant gratification, a quick fix.
Rebecca Bloom

Christmas shopping! I can do all my Christmas shopping here! I know March is a bit early, but why not be organized? And then when Christmas arrives I won’t have to go near the horrible Christmas crowds.
Sophie Kinsella

Shopping is better than sex. If you’re not satisfied after shopping, you can make an exchange for something you really like.
Adrienne Gusoff

Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.
Dave Barry

I shop, therefore I am.
Heather Chandler

Shopping is a woman thing. It’s a contact sport like football. Women enjoy the scrimmage, the noisy crowds, the danger of being trampled to death, and the ecstasy of the purchase.
Erma Bombeck

Show your confidence. Show you’re not afraid. Go to restaurants. Go shopping.
Rudy Giuliani

Men are like shoes. Some fit better than others. And sometimes you go out shopping and there’s nothing you like.
Janet Evanovich

Buy what you don’t have yet or what you really want, which can be mixed with what you already own. Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.
Karl Lagerfeld

I love shopping. There is a little bit of magic found in buying something new. It is instant gratification, a quick fix.
Rebecca Bloom

I think, they should list shopping as a cardiovascular activity. My heart never beats as fast as it does when I see a reduced by 50 percent’ sign.
Sophie Kinsella

The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.
Erma Bombeck

Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.
Victoria Moran

Shopping is actually very similar to farming a field. You can’t keep buying the same thing, you have to have a bit of variety.
Sophie Kinsella

For some, shopping is an art; for others, it’s a sport.
Pamela Klaffke

The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her.
Marcelene Cox.

Shopping is a bit of a relaxing hobby for me, which is sometimes troubling for the bank balance.
Rebecca Hall

I went window shopping today! I bought four windows.
Tommy Cooper

I like my money right where I can see it: hanging in my closet.
Carrie Bradshaw

I did a lot of shopping for her in Tokyo because the colors here are very conservative. A shopaholic would have a coat in every color and lots of accessories.
Sophie Kinsella

If a man doesn’t fit, you can’t exchange him seven days later for a gorgeous cashmere sweater.
Rebecca Bloomwood

The only consolation I had was buying things. If I bought some pretty thing it cheered me up for a while.
Iris Murdoch

Never give up on something you really want. However impossible things seem, there’s always a way.
Sophie Kinsella

One good thing about Christmas shopping is it toughens you for the January sales.
Grace Kriley

There are 17 more shopping days until Christmas. So, guys, that means 16 more days till we start shopping, right?
Conan O’Brien

Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it.
Richard Lamm

Style Strategy is about shopping smart, staying chic, and making it all last. It’s about showing women how to shop for value without compromising style.
Nina Garcia

From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.
Katharine Whitehorn

Xmas Trivia: Before it became a major shopping holiday, Christmas is believed to have had a ‘religious’ meaning.
Andy Borowitz

I’m a last-minute shopper. I end up at the mall or somewhere on Christmas Eve. It’s a shame.
Brad Paisley

If I have free time, I want to go to the beach, walk around a shopping mall, go grocery shopping. Live a little bit of life.
James Wan

I still believe in the Holy Trinity, except now it’s Target, Trader Joe’s, and IKEA.”
Jen Lancaster

They said I was a valued customer, now they send me hate mail.”
Sophie Kinsella

Shopping is really complicated if you are a girl.
Helen Salter

I’ve no idea when I’m going to wear it, the girl replied calmly. I only knew that I had to have it. Once I tried it on, well… She shrugged. The dress claimed me.
Isabel Wolff

Whoever said that money can’t buy happiness simply didn’t know where to go shopping.
Bo Derek

Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets.
Mignon McLaughlin

If men liked shopping, they’d call it research.
Cynthia Nelms

When I shop, the world gets better, and the world is better, but then it’s not, and I need to do it again.
Sophie Kinsella

For in some ways the world was like a shopping centre, and he himself was a doubtful customer, often ineffectual, being talked into buying things he didn’t want, things indeed which nobody in their right mind would want to buy.
Margaret Mahy

The saving of money is usually the delaying of the wasting of money.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Once a culture becomes entirely advertising friendly, it seizes to be a culture at all.
Mark Crispin Miller

Always be polite to possible murderers: that was the twenty-four-hour-shopping philosophy.
Kate Griffin

Hanging onto a bad buy will not redeem the purchase.”
Terence Conran

The wise find pleasure in using a product until it is no longer usable; the foolish, in replacing an old but still usable product with a brand new one.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

COVID-19 may be the final nail in the coffin of the traditional store model as the isolated people of the world switch to internet shopping.
Steven Magee

Shopping: one of my favorite pastimes.
Adrienne Posey

Therapy is a good grocery store.
Adrienne Posey

When deciding what to buy, remember that some things are easy to buy – but then we have to use them. If they’re not used, they don’t enhance our lives; they just contribute to guilt and clutter.
Gretchen Rubin

In this era of oversupply and super-abundance in fashion, one doesn’t need more. Well, definitely not more of things…whereas we all could use MORE of wisdom, education and ethics of consumption.
Anastacia Plastinina

The need for social interaction … is very much a part of why women shop. All our interviewees commented at some point that social interaction was part of the shopping experience.
Stella Minahan

…I get home and there’s a box on my front porch. My serotonin surges and Jeff Bezos is a rich man because he knows how much we all just love to get a present, even if it’s a present we bought for ourselves.
Caroline Kepnes

If shopping helps them to forgive you, I think you won’t find an easier and cheaper way to be forgiven.
Sarvesh Jain

Happiness is not having what you love, it is loving what you have.
Amit Kalantri

Paying or having paid for something often makes it seem necessary; or better, more important, or more useful than it is.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I hate department stores. They’re too bright, too loud, and too crammed full of junk that nobody needs. Whenever I’m forced to spend time in one I start thinking about how consumer culture is just one long, expensive, planet-killing distraction from the fact that we’re all going to die eventually.
Karen M. McManus

Our caring about what others think about us is one of the pillars of the economy.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

When unmoderated materialism is the world’s norm, consumer is the product, product does the consuming.”
Abhijit Naskar

During the shopping process, Amazon’s AI offers suggestions of items that it predicts you will want to buy. The AI does a reasonable job. However, it is far from perfect. In our case, the AI accurately predicts what we want to buy about 5 percent of the time. We actually purchase about one of every twenty items it recommends. Considering the millions of items on offer, that’s not bad!
Ajay Agrawal

Happiness is all too often pursued through the use of a credit card.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

For most people who board, the experience of shopping or acquiring is so overwhelmingly rewarding that it erases all thoughts of consequences.
Randy O. Frost

Consumerism is based on the illusion that you can fill spiritual or emotional emptiness with physical products.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Just because you purchased something costly doesn’t mean you have to use it every day to feel its worth.
Sarvesh Jain

There are two ways to shop, one is to try until you find exactly what you’re looking for. Or second, find something that feels good and hope that you’ll like it along the way.
Sarvesh Jain

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50 Great quotes about trading, market trends, money, finance, investments, opportunities and failure, philosophy of traders and discipline by trading lovers.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller

First of all you must keep well in mind that a complete trading system covers each of the decisions required for successful trading, that is:
Markets – What to buy or sell
Position Sizing – How much to buy or sell
Entries – When to buy or sell
Stops – When to get out of a losing position
Exits – When to get out of a winning position
Tactics – How to buy or sell
Daimon Traders

To be a trader or an investor first you must have some money (a lot is better), and then you should learn and practice some financial activities. The problem arises if you don’t have money, then what you necessarily need is vast knowledge and great skilfulness. In any case you must be very very careful, because the market is always there, ready to fuck you! Alternatively, if you are still young, you might try to become a manager, and consequently get rich working hard and earning a lot, so that you can afford some professional financial advisors.
Carl William Brown

The market does not know you exist. You can do nothing to influence it. You can only control your behavior.
Alexander Elder

The most important thing about making money is not to let your losses get out of hand!
Marty Schwartz

The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor”
Vince Lombardi

The rich are those who play to win. The middle class plays not to lose.
Robert Kiyosaki

It is essential to wait for trades with a good risk/reward ratio. Patience is a virtue for a trader.
Alexander Elder

Be patient! Patience is one of the key ingredients to reaping large profits. It can be very difficult to sit idle when I am surrounded by all the action of the market, yet sometimes the best course of action is to do nothing at all. I make far more money when I wait for the best set-ups, wait for the best entries, and wait for the best exits.
Gregg aka LX21

Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That’s truly about the game, and in some ways that’s about life too.
Michael Jordan

As a bull market turns into a bear market, the new pros turn into optimists, hoping and praying the bear market will become a bull and save them. But as the market remains bearish, the optimists become pessimists, quit the profession, and return to their day jobs. This is when the real professional investors re-enter the market.
Robert Kiyosaki

It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
Warren Buffett

Remember it takes volume to move stocks, so start getting to know your stock’s volume behavior and then how it reacts to spikes in volume. You can see these spikes on any chart. Volume is the key to your stock’s movement and success or failure.
Dan Zanger

Swing trading is a good fit for a minority of the population. It involves tremendous amounts of responsibility. You must rely on yourself and can’t be reckless or prone to gambling. If you’re not disciplined, you may end up with no income (or worse).
Omar Bassal

Remember. You are NOT trading against other human traders. You are trading against AI Bots. They don’t sleep. They don’t eat. They don’t use the bathroom or get sick etc. Their only existance is to be programmed to beat you.
Brian Jones

It pays to write down your plan. You need to know exactly under what conditions you will enter and exit a trade. Do not make decisions on the spur of the moment, when you are vulnerable to being sucked into the crowd. Plans are created by reasoning individuals. Impulsive trades are made by sweaty group members.
Alexander Elder

To do the job right requires such an enormous amount of concentration. It’s physically and emotionally mandatory that you find some time to relax. And you’ve got to be able to turn it off like that. There will be times though that I get so incredibly excited about a trade or even a project that I’ll wake up at 4 o’clock in the morning and there’s no way in hell that I’m going back to sleep. I’ll sit there in my dreams and trade for four hours.
PTJ

Michael [Marcus] taught me one thing that was incredibly important… He taught me that you could make a million dollars. He showed me that if you applied yourself, great things could happen. It is very easy to miss the point that you really can do it. He showed me that if you take a position and use discipline, you can actually make it.”
Bruce Kovner

I spend my day trying to make myself as happy and relaxed as I can be. If I have positions going against me, I get right out; if they are going for me, I keep them.
Paul Tudor Jones

The concept of paying one-hundred-and-something times earnings for any company for me is just anathema. Having said that, at the end of the day, your job is to buy what goes up and to sell what goes down so really who gives a damn about PE’s?
Paul Tudor Jones

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
Newt Gingrich

Do not strive for things occurring to occur as you wish, but wish the things occurring as they occur,
and you will flow well.
Michael W. Covel

Speculation is far too exciting. Most people who speculate hound the brokerage offices… the ticker is always on their minds. They are so engrossed with the minor ups and downs, they miss the big movements.
Jesse Livermore

If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much.
Charles Dodgson

There are a million ways to make money in the markets. The irony is that they are all very difficult to find.
Jack D. Schwager

Investment banks are pyramid schemes controlled by the upper class.
J.P. Morgan

It is impossible to predict with any certainty how the overall stock market will behave. This is why there is so much risk associated with this form of investment. That is why if you are not a professional trader you must wait for the good chance of your life!
Carl William Brown

There are old traders; and there are bold traders; but there are no old bold traders.
The Turtles

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Franklyn P. Jones

Media, the plural of mediocrity.
Jimmy Breslin

When the bull market ended in 2000, so did many traders’ accounts.
Daimon Traders

I want to trade successfully in the short period, I am not interested in keeping a stock for years, since in the long period we will be all dead, and I am not so young anymore! I obviously know that doing like this I loose some very good opportunities!
Carl Wiliam Brown

A loss never bothers me after I take it. I forget it overnight. But being wrong – not taking the loss – that is what does damage to the pocketbook and to the soul.
Jesse L. Livermore

It’s human nature when you lose money quickly you want to make it back twice as quick. Slow down, keep focused, and stick to your strategy.
Ian Cassel

All our life is nothing but a stupid trade, a poor bet, and in the end we are going to loose the whole capital, if any!
Carl William Brown

Go boldly after what you want and expect some setbacks, some disappointments, and some rotten days. Embrace them all as a valuable part of the process and learn to say, Thank you, teacher.
Mark Minervini

All our life is nothing but a stupid trade, a poor bet, that’s why you must learn a lot about trading and stupidity!
Carl William Brown

I always believe that prices move first and fundamentals come second.
Paul Tudor Jones

It is not that we had any unfair knowledge that other people didn’t have, it is just that we did our homework.
Paul Tudor Jones

The ability to cut a loss while it’s small is a core trading skill.
Steve Burns

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Determine to become one of the best… Sufficient money will almost automatically follow if you get to be one of the “best” in your chosen field, whatever it is.
Don G Mitchell

Whenever I have had the patience to wait for the market to arrive at what I call a Pivotal Point before I started to trade; I have always made money in my operations.
Jesse Livermore

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavour, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
Orison Swett Marden

Decrease your trading volume when you are trading poorly; increase your volume when you are trading well.
Paul Tudor Jones

I usually ignore advice from other traders, especially the ones who believe they are on to a “sure thing”. The old timers, who talk about “maybe there is a chance of so and so,” are often right and early.
ED sykota

Fundamentalists figure things out and anticipate change. Trend followers join the trend of the moment. Fundamentalists try to solve their feelings. Trend followers join their feelings and observe them evolve and dis-solve.
ED sykota

My goal is to finish each day with more than I started.
Paul Tudor Jones

Most men fail, not through lack of education, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.
Orison Swett Marden

A good system may be able to trade more markets effectively than a good trader because it has the advantage of unlimited computing power.
Paul Tudor Jones

The speculator’s chief enemies are always boring from within. It is inseparable from human nature to hope and to fear. In speculation, when the market goes against you, you hope that every day will be the last day-and you lose more than you should had you not listened to hope.
Jesse Livermore

There is a time to go long. There is a time to go short. There is a time to go fishing.
Jesse Livermore

Some of the best trades come when everyone gets very panicky. the crowd can often act very stupidly in the markets. you can picture price fluctuations around an equilibrium level as a rubber band being stretched-if it gets pulled too far, eventually it will snap back. as a short term trader, i try to wait until the rubber band is stretched to its extreme point.
Linda Bradford Raschke

The position size on a trade is determined by the stop, and the stop is determined on a technical basis.
Bruce Kovner

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NIO Inc. stock company review. Nio develops, manufactures, and sells smart electric vehicles in China offering various models and a battery swapping service.

Last News NIO Inc. is set to achieve its first-ever operating profit in Q4 2025, with projections of RMB 200-700 million in operating income. This news has significantly impacted investor sentiment, leading to a 5.86% surge in stock price amid strong delivery growth and profitability hints.

NIO Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, and sells smart electric vehicles in China. It offers five and six-seater electric SUVs, as well as smart electric sedans and power swap, a battery swapping service; full Charge in around 3 minutes while remaining in the car. Battery tested at every Swap and defective ones are removed from circulation. It took NIO four years to reach 10 million swaps. The last million took 11 Days. https://www.nio.com/

NIO Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, and sells smart electric vehicles in China. It offers five and six-seater electric SUVs, as well as smart electric sedans. The company also offers power solutions, including Power Home, a home charging solution; Power Swap, a battery swapping service; Power Charger and Destination Charger; Power Mobile, a mobile charging service through charging vans; Power Map, an application that provides access to a network of public chargers and their real-time information; and One Click for Power valet service.

In addition, it provides repair, maintenance, and bodywork services through its NIO service centers and authorized third-party service centers; statutory and third-party liability insurance, and vehicle damage insurance through third-party insurers; repair and routine maintenance; roadside assistance; courtesy vehicle services; data packages; and auto financing and financial leasing services.

Further, the company involved in the provision of energy and service packages to its users; design and technology development activities; manufacture of e-powertrains, battery packs, and components; and sales and after sales management activities. Additionally, it offers NIO Certified, a used vehicle inspection, evaluation, acquisition, and sales service. The company was formerly known as NextEV Inc. and changed its name to NIO Inc. in July 2017. NIO Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in Shanghai, China.

Electric vehicle makers are facing multiple headwinds, including slowing demand due to macro pressures, intense competition, and additional tariffs on imports by certain countries. Nonetheless, Wall Street is optimistic about certain EV stocks due to their resilient performance in a tough business backdrop and improving financials. We used TipRanks’ Stock Comparison Tool to place Nio (NIO), Li Auto (LI), and Tesla (TSLA) against each other to pick the EV stock with the highest upside potential, according to Wall Street analysts.

Despite a tough business backdrop, Nio reported solid deliveries in September. The company delivered 21,181 vehicles, reflecting a 35.4% year-over-year increase. Its Q3 deliveries grew 11.6% to 61,855 vehicles. The September numbers included 832 units of the company’s first mass-market model Onvo L60, which was launched on September 19.

Recently, Nio announced that a group of Chinese investors will invest RMB3.3 billion in its subsidiary Nio China, while the company itself will invest an additional RMB10 billion. Reacting to the news, Daiwa analyst Kelvin Lau noted that Nio China is the core operational entity for the company and the cash injection by existing shareholders is a favorable development that supports the business operations. Lau has a Buy rating on Nio stock.

Is Nio Stock a Good Buy?

HSBC analyst Yuqian Ding lowered the price target for Nio stock to $7.20 from $7.90 but maintained a Buy rating. The analyst has a constructive outlook on Nio’s volumes and margin growth, supported by strong NIO brand sales, the potential for volume expansion for ONVO L60, supply chain cost optimization, and better economies of scale.

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International Days list, promoted by the United Nations as occasions to mark particular events or topics in order to create awareness and action on these issues.

The United Nations designates specific days, weeks, years and decades as occasions to mark particular events or topics in order to promote awareness and action on these issues. You can find a list of International Days and Weeks on the UN website, with articles and videos about every special day to give you all the information you need.

There are many international days and weeks celebrated globally. Some of the most popular observances include World Braille Day (January 4), International Day of Education (January 24), International Women’s Day (March 8), World Water Day (March 22), and the International Day of Peace (September 21). Other annual observances include World Seagrass Day (March 1), United Nations Zero Discrimination Day (March 1), International Day for Ear and Hearing Loss (March 3) and World Health Day (April 7).

There are also many other social media holidays and STEM-related seasonal events celebrated throughout the year.The UN also designates specific years for certain topics, such as the year 2023 being designated as the mid-point since the UN adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

The purpose of observing international days and weeks is to educate the general public on issues of concern, to mobilize political will and resources to address global problems, and to celebrate and reinforce achievements of humanity.

Each international day offers many actors the opportunity to organize activities related to the theme of the day. While all UN observances share the same principal aims, UN days can ensure the greatest degree of continuity. The significance of observing these days includes promoting diversity, cooperative spirit among nations, equality, peace, unity, universal respect for justice and international law as well as human rights and fundamental freedoms.

The themes for international days and weeks are chosen by the United Nations or by organizations in close coordination with the UN. The UN observes designated days, weeks, years, and decades, each with a theme or topic. For example, World Space Week Association Board of Directors selects a theme each year in close coordination with the UN Office of Outer Space Affairs. The United Nations designates specific years for certain topics to promote awareness through observances. Each year’s theme for International Day of Families is selected to raise awareness on important issues such as sustainable urban policies.

As I said before International Women’s Day (March 8) is one of the most celebrated international days. It is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. The event got its start in the U.S., but it is more widely celebrated elsewhere. International Women’s Day is a day when women are recognized for their achievements without regard to divisions, whether national, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic or political. The day aims to promote gender equality and women’s rights around the world. While there are other popular observances such as World Water Day (March 22) and the International Day of Peace (September 21), International Women’s Day has gained significant attention and recognition globally.

Individuals or organizations can propose new international days or weeks. According to the United Nations website, International days are proposed to the UN General Assembly by Member States. Additionally, as stated in Brill’s article on International Days at the United Nations, UN days may be initiated by a host of actors including international and national organizations, politicians, professional bodies, policy makers, NGOs and individuals. However, it is important to note that not all proposals for new observances are accepted. The General Assembly prioritizes information relevant to its work and may not accept proposals that do not align with its priorities.

Here is the complete list of International World Days.

January

01 Jan – World Day of Peace

04 Jan – World Braille Day

24 Jan – International Day of Education

27 Jan – International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust

February

01 Feb – World Interfaith Harmony Week, 1-7 February

02 Feb – World Wetlands Day

04 Feb – International Day of Human Fraternity

06 Feb – International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation

10 Feb – World Pulses Day

11 Feb – International Day of Women and Girls in Science

12 Feb – International Day for the Prevention of Violent Extremism as and when Conducive to Terrorism

13 Feb – World Radio Day

17 Feb – Global Tourism Resilience Day

20 Feb – World Day of Social Justice

21 Feb – International Mother Language Day

March

01 Mar – World Seagrass Day

01 Mar – Zero Discrimination Day

03 Mar – World Wildlife Day

05 Mar – International Day for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Awareness

08 Mar – International Women’s Day

10 Mar – International Day of Women Judges

15 Mar – International Day to Combat Islamophobia

20 Mar – International Day of Happiness

20 Mar – French Language Day

21 Mar – Week of Solidarity with the Peoples Struggling against Racism and Racial Discrimination, 21-27 March

21 Mar – International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

21 Mar – World Poetry Day

21 Mar – International Day of Nowruz

21 Mar – World Down Syndrome Day

21 Mar – International Day of Forests

22 Mar – World Water Day

23 Mar – World Meteorological Day

24 Mar – World Tuberculosis Day

24 Mar – International Day for the Right to the Truth concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims

25 Mar – International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

25 Mar – International Day of Solidarity with Detained and Missing Staff Members

30 Mar – International Day of Zero Waste

April

02 Apr – World Autism Awareness Day

04 Apr – International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action

05 Apr – International Day of Conscience

06 Apr – International Day of Sport for Development and Peace

07 Apr – World Health Day

07 Apr – International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda

12 Apr – International Day of Human Space Flight

14 Apr – World Chagas Disease Day

20 Apr – Chinese Language Day

21 Apr – World Creativity and Innovation Day

22 Apr – International Mother Earth Day

23 Apr – World Book and Copyright Day

23 Apr – English Language Day

23 Apr – Spanish Language Day

24-30 Apr – World Immunization Week

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Black Friday day falls every year on the first Friday after Thanksgiving, the day of Thanksgiving, a typical holiday in the United States and celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November. In 2025, Black Friday falls on November 28, the day in which all stores offer commercial bargains and discounts, not only on clothing and gift ideas, but also on many products for the home and kitchen. Since 1952, the day after Thanksgiving has traditionally been seen in the United States, together with Cyber Monday, as the start of the Christmas shopping season and related sales, even though the term “Black Friday” has only been widely used in the past decade.

Black Friday is a scam. You should be mad they overcharge you 364 days a year.
Unknown

You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There’s another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.
Bill Gates

What do Black Friday shoppers and the Thanksgiving turkey have in common? They know what it’s like to be jammed into a small place and stuffed.
Humoropedia

Make sure the clothes you buy on Black Friday take into account how fat you got on Thanksgiving.
Unknown

We live in a consumer culture, and Black Friday is like the July 4th of that culture. It might be good not to live in this culture, but it terms of what we can do to make people safer at big sales, it seems more useful to try to avoid dangerous crowd conditions.
John Seabrook

Let’s spend Thanksgiving spilling food on our clothes, and Black Friday buying new ones.
Unknown

Black Friday sale. My house. You and I. All clothes will be 100% off.
Kappit

As reported in the Forbes “Entrepreneurs” column on December 3, 2013: “Cyber Monday, the online counterpart to Black Friday, has been gaining unprecedented popularity -to the point where Cyber Sales are continuing on throughout the week.” Peter Greenberg, Travel Editor for CBS News, further advises: “If you want a real deal on Black Friday, stay away from the mall. Black Friday and Cyber Monday are all part of Cyber Week.

Sorry shoppers on Black Friday will block and tackle better than your football team on Thanksgiving.
Unknown

I thought Black Friday was when everyone puts on blackface and steals children from Wal-Mart.
Stephen Colbert

Black Friday: Because only in America, people trample others for sales exactly one day after being thankful for what they already have.
Unknown

The National Retail Federation releases figures on the sales for each Thanksgiving weekend. The Federation’s definition of “Black Friday weekend” includes Thursday, Friday, Saturday and projected spending for Sunday. The survey estimates number of shoppers, not number of people.

The length of the shopping season is not the same across all years: the date for Black Friday varies between November 23 and 29, while Christmas Eve is fixed at December 24. 2012 had the longest shopping season since 2007.

My version of Black Friday is deleting all the people in my phone who sent me a “mass Thanksgiving text.”
Blake Griffin

For those of us in the financial world, Black Friday has a strong negative connotation, referring to a stock market catastrophe.
Mark Skousen

Black Friday, in reality, is a symptom of the plight that 30 years of Reaganomics has brought to working people in America. Right along with the frenzied rise of shoppers willing to fight each other at retail outlets across America, we’ve been steadily, for the last 30 years, watching the destruction of organized labor … of decent pay and wages and conditions for working people… We have Black Friday today because the wealthy elite have strangled their workers for 32 years, ever since Ronald Reagan’s election.
Thom Hartmann

Here’s hoping Black Friday doesn’t turn into Black and Blue Sunday.
SomeECards

Happy Thanksgiving to someone I’d have no problem stomping to death on Black Friday.
Unknown

Black Friday is an informal name for the day following Thanksgiving Day in the United States (the fourth Thursday of November), which has been regarded as the beginning of the country’s Christmas shopping season since 1952. It is a busy shopping day and is a holiday in some states. Many people have a day off work or choose to take a day from their amount of yearly leave on Black Friday. Some people use this occasion also to make trips to see family members or friends who live in other areas or to go on vacation. Others use it to start shopping for the Christmas season. Shopping for Christmas presents is also popular on Black Friday. Many stores have special offers, high discounts and lower their prices on many goods, such as toys, clothes, food and electronic gadgets and devices.

Black Friday is not a federal holiday, but is a public holiday in some states. It is not only the day after Thanksgiving Day but also the Friday before Cyber Monday. Many people take a day of their annual leave on the day after Thanksgiving Day. Many organizations also close for the Thanksgiving weekend. Public transit systems may run on their normal schedule or may have changes. Some stores extend their opening hours on Black Friday. There can also be congestion on roads to popular shopping destinations.

Black Friday is one of the busiest shopping days in the USA. The states which have official public holidays for state government employees on “The Day After Thanksgiving” include Arkansas, California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.

There are two popular theories as to why the day after Thanksgiving Day is called Black Friday. One theory suggests that the term originated in Philadelphia, where it was used to describe the heavy and disruptive pedestrian and vehicle traffic that would occur on the day after Thanksgiving. This usage dates to at least 1961. The wheels of vehicles in heavy traffic on the day left many black markings on the road surface, leading to the term Black Friday.

The other theory is that the term Black Friday More than twenty years later, as the phrase became more widespread, a popular explanation became that this day represented the point in the year when retailers begin to turn a profit and therefore it is related to an old way of recording business accounts. As a matter of fact losses were recorded in red ink and profits in black ink. Many businesses, particularly small businesses, started making profits prior to Christmas. Many hoped to start showing a profit, marked in black ink, on the day after Thanksgiving Day.

In the United Kingdom, on the contrary the term “Black Friday” originated within the Police and NHS to refer to the Friday before Christmas. It is the day when emergency services activate contingency plans to cope with the increase in workload due to many people going out drinking on the last Friday before Christmas. Contingencies can include setting up mobile field hospitals near City Centre nightspots.

The term has then been adopted outside those services to refer to the evening and night of the Friday immediately before Christmas, and would now be considered a mainstream term and not simply as jargon of the emergency services. The year 2014 marked the introduction of this event in Bolivia, Colombia, Denmark, Italy, Finland, France, Ireland, Lebanon, Nigeria, South Africa and Sweden.

In order to organize well your shopping you should research the Thanksgiving and Black Friday deals in advance, because you have to consider that the shops are very crowded in these days. Make an itinerary and a shopping plan: be sure to check when each store opens. This may determine the order of the stores that you visit. Best Buy, which typically draws a crowd that waits for the doors to open, will be open at 5 p.m. Thursday. You could also make a night or weekend out of it, or you can also create a map of your itinerary, planning where to park and so on.

Don’t forget about Santa: Santa will usually be available to take photos and meet children in the center atrium of most of the common hyper stores from this day, and every day until Dec. 24. Photo packages are also available for purchase. Bring your family: The adventure of Black Friday does not need to be rushed or stressful, and above all you must pay great attention and be careful, in fact despite frequent attempts to control the crowds of shoppers, minor injuries are common among the crowds, usually as a result of being pushed or thrown to the ground in small stampedes, while most injuries remain minor, serious injuries and even deliberate violence have taken place on some Black Fridays.

In 2008, a crowd of approximately 2,000 shoppers in Valley Stream, New York, waited outside for the 5:00am opening of the local Walmart. As opening time approached, the crowd grew anxious and when the doors were opened the crowd pushed forward, breaking the door down, a 34-year-old employee was trampled to death. The shoppers did not appear concerned with the victim’s fate, expressing refusal to halt their stampede when other employees attempted to intervene and help the injured employee, complaining that they had been waiting in the cold and were not willing to wait any longer.

Shoppers had begun assembling as early as 9:00 PM the evening before. Even when police arrived and attempted to render aid to the injured man, shoppers continued to pour in, shoving and pushing the officers as they made their way into the store. Several other people incurred minor injuries, including a pregnant woman who had to be taken to the hospital. The incident may be the first case of a death occurring during Black Friday sales; according to the National Retail Federation, “We are not aware of any other circumstances where a retail employee has died working on the day after Thanksgiving.”

Most major retailers open very early (and more recently during overnight hours) and offer promotional sales. Black Friday is not an official holiday, but California and some other states observe “The Day After Thanksgiving” as a holiday for state government employees, sometimes in lieu of another federal holiday such as Columbus Day. Many non-retail employees and schools have both Thanksgiving and the following Friday off, which, along with the following regular weekend, makes it a four-day weekend, thereby increasing the number of potential shoppers.

It has routinely been the busiest shopping day of the year since 2005, although news reports, which at that time were inaccurate, have described it as the busiest shopping day of the year for a much longer period of time. Similar stories resurface year upon year at this time, portraying hysteria and shortage of stock, creating a state of positive feedback.

Black Friday is a shopping day for a combination of reasons. As the first day after the last major holiday before Christmas, it marks the unofficial beginning of the Christmas shopping season. Additionally, many employers give their employees the day off as part of the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. In order to take advantage of this, virtually all retailers in the country, big and small, offer various sales including limited amounts of doorbuster/doorcrasher/doorsmasher items to entice traffic. Recent years have seen retailers extend beyond normal hours in order to maintain an edge or to simply keep up with the competition.

Such hours may include opening as early as 12:00 am or remaining open overnight on Thanksgiving Day and beginning sale prices at midnight. In 2010, Toys ‘R’ Us began their Black Friday sales at 10:00 pm on Thanksgiving Day and further upped the ante by offering free boxes of Crayola crayons and coloring books for as long as supplies lasted. Other retailers began Black Friday sales early Thanksgiving morning and ran them through as late as 11:00 pm Friday evening. Forever 21 went in the opposite direction, opening at normal hours on Friday, and running late sales until 2:00 am Saturday morning. Historically, it was common for Black Friday sales to extend throughout the following weekend. However, this practice has largely disappeared in recent years, perhaps because of an effort by retailers to create a greater sense of urgency.

In Canada the large population centers on Lake Ontario and the Lower Mainland in Canada have always attracted cross-border shopping into the US states, and as Black Friday became more popular in the US, Canadians often flocked to the US because of their lower prices and a stronger Canadian dollar. After 2001, many were traveling for the deals across the border. Starting in 2008 and 2009, due to the parity of the Canadian dollar compared with the American dollar, several major Canadian retailers ran Black Friday deals of their own to discourage shoppers from leaving Canada.

The year 2012 saw the biggest Black Friday to date in Canada, as Canadian retailers embraced it in an attempt to keep shoppers from travelling across the border. Before the advent of Black Friday in Canada, the most comparable holiday was Boxing Day in terms of retailer impact and consumerism. Black Fridays in the US seem to provide deeper or more extreme price cuts than Canadian retailers, even for the same international retailer. In recent years, Black Friday has been promoted in Australia too, so a lot of stores run Black Friday promotions both in-store and online retailers throughout the whole country.

Since the start of the 21st century, there have been attempts by great online commercial groups with origins in the United States such as Amazon to introduce a retail “Black Friday” everywhere and in 2013 Asda (a subsidiary of the American firm Walmart) announced its “Walmart’s Black Friday by ASDA” campaign promoting the American concept of a retail “Black Friday” in the UK and Europe as well. Some online and in-store companies have adopted the American-style Black Friday sale day, although others appear skeptical, with one 2013 comment piece in the trade publication Retail Week labelling it “simply an Americanism, which doesn’t translate very well.”

In 2014, more UK-based retailers adopted the Black Friday marketing scheme than ever. Among them were ao.com, very.co.uk, John Lewis and Argos, who all offered discounted prices to entice Christmas shoppers. During Black Friday sales in 2014, police forces were called to stores across Britain to deal with crowd control issues, assaults, threatening customers and traffic issues. Black Friday appears to be growing in popularity year on year in the UK and all through European countries where the sales are quickly increasing and mostly internet retailers have used the event as an occasion to attract new customers with discounts, but bricks and mortar stores have already begun to adapt the shopping event.

In Mexico and other South American countries like Brasil, Black Friday was the inspiration for the government and retailing industry to create an annual weekend of discounts and extended credit terms, El Buen Fin, meaning “the good weekend” in Spanish. El Buen Fin has been in existence since 2011 and takes place on November in the weekend prior to the Monday in which the Mexican Revolution holiday is pushed from its original date of November 20, as a result of the measure taken by the government of pushing certain holidays to the Monday of their week in order to avoid the workers and students to make a ”larger” weekend (for example, not attending in a Friday after a Thursday holiday, thus making a 4-day weekend).

On this weekend, major retailers extend their store hours and offer special promotions, including extended credit terms and price promotions. The popularity of Black Friday is also increasing in India. The reason for this is the growing number of e-commerce websites. The big e-commerce retailers in India are trying to emulate the concept of shopping festivals from the United States like Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

Some websites offer information about day-after-Thanksgiving specials up to a month in advance. The text listings of items and prices are usually accompanied by pictures of the actual ad circulars. These are either leaked by insiders or intentionally released by large retailers to give consumers insight and allow them time to plan.In recent years, some retailers (including Walmart, Target, OfficeMax, Big Lots, and Staples) have claimed that the advertisements they send in advance of Black Friday and the prices included in those advertisements are copyrighted and are trade secrets.

In South Africa, Austria and Switzerland, Black Friday Sale is a joint sales initiative by hundreds of online vendors – among them Zalando, Disney Store, Galeria Kaufhof and Sony. Over its first 24-hour run on November 28, 2013, more than 1.2 million people visited the site, making it the single largest online shopping event in German-speaking countries. There has been growing interest for black Friday in Poland as well.

The counterpart of Black Friday in China is Singles’ Day or Guanggun Jie, literally: “Single Sticks’ Holiday” that is an entertainment festival famous among young Mainland Chinese people, to celebrate the fact that they are proud of being single. The date, November 11th (11/11), is chosen because the number “1” resembles an individual that is alone. This festival has become the largest offline and online shopping day in the world, with sales in Alibaba’s sites Tmall and Taobao at US$5.8 billion in 2013, US$9.3 billion in 2014, US$14.3 billion in 2015, US$17.8 billion in 2016, and over US$25.4 billion in 2017. JD.com also achieved a sales record of US$19.1 billion in 2017, while Lazada drums up US$123 million. During the festival, Alibaba set a world record for payment transactions, with its mobile wallet app Alipay processing 256,000 payment transactions per second, in 2017. A total of 1.48 billion transactions were processed by Alipay in the entire 24 hours, with delivery orders through Cainiao (Alibaba’s logistics affiliate) reaching close to 700 million, breaking 2016’s record.

Black friday is both the day after Thanksgiving and also the day before Cyber Monday. The term Cyber Monday, a neologism invented in 2005 by the National Retail Federation’s division Shop.org, refers to the Monday immediately following Black Friday based on a trend that retailers began to recognize in 2003 and 2004. Retailers noticed that many consumers, who were too busy to shop over the Thanksgiving weekend or did not find what they were looking for, shopped for bargains online that Monday from home or work. In 2010, Hitwise reported that: Thanksgiving weekend offered a strong start, especially as Black Friday sales continued to grow in popularity.

For the 2nd consecutive year, Black Friday was the highest day for retail traffic during the holiday season, followed by Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday. The highest year-over-year increases in visits took place on Cyber Monday and Black Friday with growth of 16% and 13%, respectively. In 2013, Cyber Monday online sales grew by 18% over the previous year, hitting a record $1.73 billion, with an average order value of $128. In 2014, Cyber Monday was the busiest day of the year with sales exceeding $2 billion in desktop online spending, up 17% from the previous year.

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Labor Day, an article that explains the history, the major facts, the meaning, the celebrations and quotes to honor and recognize the American labor movement and the works and contributions of laborers to the development and achievements of the United States.

Labor Day in New York and in the USA is a bit like the equivalent of our International Workers’ Day to be celebrated on May 1 of each year, a tradition that continues to this day in more than 60 countries. In America it is a national holiday which in the Big Apple brings folkloristic and festive events along the streets of the city . It is officially celebrated on the first Monday of September (Monday 2 September 2024), even if the celebration extends to the entire weekend preceding it, with the organization of various events and manifestations. The United Kingdom, on the other hand, commemorates labor on the first Monday of May, which does not necessarily fall on May 1. It is known as Early May Bank Holiday, and the day is widely observed, although it does not have the overt labor-themed narrative in other countries.

Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.
Voltaire, Candide

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
Michel de Montaigne

He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.
Saint Francis of Assisi

I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.
Eugene Debs

You count the waves. (Labour in vain.)
Proverb, (Latin)

To have one’s labour for one’s pains.
Proverb

The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Anatole France

In vain our labours are, whatsoe’er they be, unless God gives the Benediction.
Robert Herrick

What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones, The labor of an age in pilèd stones, Or that his hallowed relics should be hid, Under a star-y-pointing pyramid?
Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need’st thou such weak witness of thy name?
John Milton

The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.
Arnold Bennett

Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man’s true worth.
Criss Jami

Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
Mao Zedong

No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt

Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.
Thomas Carlyle

Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.
Thomas Carlyle

We’ve no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don’t forget it.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine

The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.
Luc De Clapiers

A man’s best friends are his ten fingers.
Robert Collyer

Labor is man’s greatest function. He is nothing, he can do nothing, he can achieve nothing, he can fulfill nothing, without working.
Orville Dewey

He that hath a trade hath an estate; He that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor.
Benjamin Franklin

Labor is the source of all wealth and all culture.
Ferdinand Lassalle

Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born.
John Florio

I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.
Jean Giraudoux

Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.
Samuel Johnson

Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutalized.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

If a little labor, little are our gains. Man’s fortunes are according to his pains.
Robert Herrick

Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will.
Josiah Gilbert Holland

Life gives nothing to man without labor.
Horace

Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
Thomas Jefferson

Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.
Samuel Johnson

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
Joseph Joubert

Syzygy, inexorable, pancreatic, phantasmagoria — anyone who can use those four words in one sentence will never have to do manual labor.
W.P. Kinsella

Precious gems are profoundly buried in the earth and can only be extracted at the expense of great labor.
Sri Anandamayi Ma

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.
John D. Rockefeller

The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor.
Jim Rohn

It is not, truly speaking, the labor that is divided, but the men divided into mere segments of men, broken into small fragments and crumbs of life, so that all the little piece of intelligence that is left in a man is not enough to make a pin, or a nail, but exhausts itself in making the point of a pin or the head of a nail.
John Ruskin

There is no real wealth but the labor of man.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
Samuel Smiles

If a man loves the labor of his trade apart from any question of success or fame, the Gods have called him.
Robert Louis Stevenson

The biggest labor problem is tomorrow.
Brigham Young

Labour Day (Labor Day in the United States) is an annual holiday to celebrate the achievements of workers. Labour Day has its origins in the labour union movement, specifically the eight-hour day movement, which advocated eight hours for work, eight hours for recreation, and eight hours for rest.

For most countries, Labour Day is synonymous with, or linked with, International Workers’ Day, which occurs on 1 May. For other countries, Labour Day is celebrated on a different date, often one with special significance for the labour movement in that country. Labour Day is a public holiday in many countries.

Labor Day is a federal holiday and falls on the first Monday of September every year. It was initially organized to celebrate labor unions and their contributions to the United States’ economy.

Labor Day is a public holiday. It is a day off for the general population, so all Government offices, organizations, and schools and most businesses are closed. Many cities, towns, and neighborhoods organize and hold public celebrations such as firework displays, picnics, and barbecues.

Labor Day 2020 will occur on Monday, September 7. Labor Day pays tribute to the contributions and achievements of American workers and is traditionally observed on the first Monday in September. It was created by the labor movement in the late 19th century and became a federal holiday in 1894. Labor Day weekend also symbolizes the end of summer for many Americans, and is celebrated with parties, street parades and athletic events.

Many residents take advantage of the long Labor Day weekend to take a last summer trip. Because of this, there may be traffic congestion on highways and at airports. Public transit systems do not usually operate on their regular timetables.

For students, Labor Day is the last chance to take a break before school starts again for the fall session. The American football season begins on or around Labor Day, and many teams play their first game of the season during the Labor Day weekend.

The first Labor Day was held in 1882, and its origins stem from the Central Labor Union’s desire to create a holiday for workers. It became a federal holiday in 1894.

Originally, it was intended that the day would be filled with a street parade to allow the public to appreciate the trade and labor organizations’ work. After the parade, a festival was to be held to amuse local workers and their families. In later years, prominent men and women had speeches. This is less common now but is sometimes seen in election years.

One of the reasons for choosing to celebrate this on the first Monday in September, and not on May 1, which is common in the rest of the world, was to add a holiday in the long gap between Independence Day in July and Thanksgiving in November.

In the late 1800s, at the height of the Industrial Revolution in the United States, the average American worked 12-hour days and seven-day weeks in order to eke out a basic living. Despite restrictions in some states, children as young as 5 or 6 toiled in mills, factories and mines across the country, earning a fraction of their adult counterparts’ wages.

People of all ages, particularly the very poor and recent immigrants, often faced extremely unsafe working conditions, with insufficient access to fresh air, sanitary facilities and breaks.

As manufacturing increasingly supplanted agriculture as the wellspring of American employment, labor unions, which had first appeared in the late 18th century, grew more prominent and vocal. They began organizing strikes and rallies to protest poor conditions and compel employers to renegotiate hours and pay.

Many of these events turned violent during this period, including the infamous Haymarket Riot of 1886, in which several Chicago policemen and workers were killed. Others gave rise to longstanding traditions: On September 5, 1882, 10,000 workers took unpaid time off to march from City Hall to Union Square in New York City, holding the first Labor Day parade in U.S. history.

The idea of a “workingmen’s holiday,” celebrated on the first Monday in September, caught on in other industrial centers across the country, and many states passed legislation recognizing it. Congress would not legalize the holiday until 12 years later, when a watershed moment in American labor history brought workers’ rights squarely into the public’s view. On May 11, 1894, employees of the Pullman Palace Car Company in Chicago went on strike to protest wage cuts and the firing of union representatives.

On June 26, the American Railroad Union, led by Eugene V. Debs, called for a boycott of all Pullman railway cars, crippling railroad traffic nationwide. To break the Pullman strike, the federal government dispatched troops to Chicago, unleashing a wave of riots that resulted in the deaths of more than a dozen workers.
Who Created Labor Day?

In the wake of this massive unrest and in an attempt to repair ties with American workers, Congress passed an act making Labor Day a legal holiday in the District of Columbia and the territories. On June 28, 1894, President Grover Cleveland signed it into law. More than a century later, the true founder of Labor Day has yet to be identified.

Many credit Peter J. McGuire, cofounder of the American Federation of Labor, while others have suggested that Matthew Maguire, a secretary of the Central Labor Union, first proposed the holiday.

Labor Day is still celebrated in cities and towns across the United States with parades, picnics, barbecues, fireworks displays and other public gatherings. For many Americans, particularly children and young adults, it represents the end of the summer and the start of the back-to-school season.

Labor Day is in good company since the Uniform Monday Holiday Act of 1968 changed several holidays to ensure they would always be observed on Mondays so that federal employees could have more three-day weekends, and so other holidays that always fall on Mondays include: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, George Washington’s Birthday (or “President’s Day”); Memorial Day; Columbus Day.

Here are the major U.S. holidays. In some cases, businesses, government offices, and schools will be closed, and also the International Days list.

New Year’s Eve/New Year’s Day
MLK Jr. Day
President’s Day
Valentine’s Day
St. Patrick’s Day
Easter/Spring Break
Mother’s Day
Memorial Day
Father’s Day
4th of July
Labor Day
Halloween
Thanksgiving
Christmas Eve
Christmas Day
International Days List

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