Labor Day: 10 important things about Labor Day

Labor Day 2010 is today and we thought we should tell you more about it.

Here’s a short answer to the question “what is labor day?”, in the form of 10 essential facts about it.

1. First of all, you must know that it is a United States federal holiday.

2. It is celebrated in the first Monday of September (in 2010, it is on September 6).

3. It marks the beginning of the NFL and college football seasons.

4. The NFL traditionally plays the first game on the first Thursday after Labor Day.

5. The first one was on September 5, 1882.

6. It was held in New York City by the Central Laborers’ Union.

7. Labor Day became a federal holiday in 1894.

8. The country’s leaders wanted to calm unions down after the deaths of workers in the Pullman strike.

9. It is a holiday in all 50 US states since 1894, as all states have adopted it.

10. Americans also think of it as a celebration marking the end of the summer.