Today is “May Day,” the first of May. In many European cultures, it’s a traditional spring festival holiday, celebrated since ancient times. For communists and socialist, it’s the “International Workers’ Day” and they too call it “May Day.”
India being a socialist/communist country, 1st of May is “Labor Day” and is a public holiday.
It’s kind of fitting that the communist/socialist celebrate “May Day” because “Mayday” is the international life-threatening distress call for mariners and aviators. It’s derived from the French m’aider (which means ‘help me’ and is pronounced “mayday.”) That use originated in 1921. Continue reading “First of May”
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