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The first Labor Day holiday was celebrated on Tuesday, September 5, 1882, in New York City.
In l884 the first Monday in September was selected as the holiday, as originally proposed, and the Central Labor Union urged similar organizations in other cities to follow the example of New York and celebrate a "workingmen's holiday" on that date.
In 1894, the federal government made Labor Day (the first Monday in September) a federal public holiday.
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