[hdndjsbbs]

It's May Day, which is a labour holiday everywhere except North America commemorating the Haymarket Affair when American police brutally repressed striking workers .

In North America we have Labor Day in September to distance it from the historical associations with actual organizing and police brutality.

[reaperducer]

Still widely noted in Chicago, where the Haymarket riot took place. There's even a very well-attended reenactment every year.

North America is a big place. Generalizations always fail.

[prmoustache]

You do know that no sea/ocean has split the continent and that Mexico is still in North America right?

1st of may is festive day in Mexico.

[leptons]

May Day has been around significantly longer than the Haymarket Affair.. a couple thousands years at least.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Day

[dotancohen]

That's actually a different holiday celebrated on the same day. Why the other holiday got the name May Day is beyond me.