Labor Day Labor Day has become an important weekend for discounts and allowances by many retailers in the United States, especially for back-to-school sales. Some retailers claim it is one of the largest sale dates of the year, second only to the Christmas season's Black Friday. Labor Day Labor Day in the United States of America is a public holiday celebrated on the first Monday in September. It honors the American labor movement and the contributions that workers have made to the strength, prosperity, laws, and well-being of the country. It is the Monday of the long weekend known as Labor Day
First Day of the Easter Rising at the eastern end of the Union surrendered. The first fatality of the engagement was a non-combattant. A nurse, Margaret Keogh, grand niece of Captain Myles Keogh, responded to the sound of shots. As Keough attempted to tend to the injured, she was shot dead by a British soldier. First Day of the Easter Rising The first day of the Easter Rising, Monday, April 24, 1916, saw some 1,200 volunteer soldiers of the Irish Volunteers take over positions in the centre of Dublin, launching the week-long revolution known as the Easter Rising. The Volunteers' Dublin division was organized into four