...when workers around the world stick it to the man. Translated, it just means another day at home where you can sleep till the sun shines on your bum. If you get it on a Friday, it means a 3 day long weekend. The floodgates are open, adventure awaits you.
Unfortunately I’ll be home bound. No plans at all. Maybe a three day nap will be good. Hopefully lots of people will be going out of Colombo and Colombo will be empty.
The beginnings of May day dates back to 1886, when the Haymarket riots happened in Haymarket Square, Chicago, Illinois. This is the general strike which eventually gets workers in the US an eight hour workday. Thank heavens for those pioneers, for winning all those right we enjoy as workers.
On a more loving note, May 1st is also the Global Love day. The Love Foundation celebrates each May 1st as a symbolic day of unconditional love and invites all people and nations around the world to gather together in the wisdom of peace and love.
Apart from the historical Haymarket riots, and the love fest, other interesting things that happened on this day in the past include:
1328 – Wars of Scottish Independence ends with the Treaty of Edinburg-Northampton, whereby the kingdom of England recognises the Kingdom of Scotland as an independent state.
1707 – The Act of Union joins the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1751 – The first cricket match is played in America.
1753 – Publication of the Species Plantarum by Linneaus
1776 – Establishment of the Illuminati, by Adam Weishaupt in Ingolstadt.
1786 – Opening night of Mozart’s opera The Marriage of Figaro
1834 – British colony’s abolish slavery
1930 – Dwarf planet Pluto is named
1931 – The Empire State building is dedicated in New York
1948 – The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is established with Kim Il-Sung as the president.
1950 – Guam becomes an United States commonwealth
1956 – Polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk is made available to the public.
1961 – Fidel Castro declares Cuba as a socialist nation and abolishes elections.
1978 – Japanese Naomi Uemura becomes the first person to reach the North pole alone by dog sled
2003 – GBW ignores reality and declares major combat operations over in Iraq
I heard that many of the political parties are not organizing any rallies or marches this time around. There’s no point since the elections are over anyway. Well atleast Colombo will be quiet tomorrow.
Yep, power to the people...
If you don’t have anything better to do, atleast go spread some Luuuuv...
Cheers y’all, enjoy the long weekend.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
May Day
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