When did May Day on May 1st become an international day for honoring workers?

The observance of May Day as a workers’ holiday began in 1890 in Europe.

It celebrates the support of laborers’ demands for an eight-hour working day in the United States.

The Soviet Union made it a national holiday, and it is observed as such in Socialist and Communist countries.

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