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over 250,000. Website. www .littleitalyfestivals .com. Little Italy Festival is an annual festival that takes place on Labor Day Weekend in Clinton, Indiana. The festival is run by the L.I.F.T. (Little Italy Festival Town) board, and the City of Clinton. Each year a Little Italy Festival Queen of Grapes is crowned, as well as Re (King) & Regina ...
Woman in costume in the 2009 New York City parade. David Dubinsky, Nelson Rockefeller, and Robert F. Wagner Jr. watch the 1959 Labor Day Parade. Jessie Waddell and some of her West Indian friends started the Carnival in Harlem in Upper Manhattan, New York City, in the 1930s by staging costume parties in large, enclosed places such as the Savoy, Renaissance and Audubon Ballrooms due to the cold ...
Labor Day. Labor Day is a federal holiday in the United States celebrated on the first Monday of September to honor and recognize the American labor movement and the works and contributions of laborers to the development and achievements of the United States. [1] [2] [3] Beginning in the late 19th century, as the trade union and labor movements ...
2023: Monday, September 4. Who created Labor Day? ... Parades—Many cities and towns have parades to celebrate Labor Day. The parade may even be part of a bigger Labor Day festival the area holds
September 4, 2023 at 6:47 AM. ... A marching band at the Labor Day Parade in Silverton, Colorado, in September 1940. - Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group/Getty Images.
On September 5, 1882, New York City union leaders organized what is now considered the country's first Labor Day parade, according to National Geographic. On this day, 10,000 workers took unpaid ...
Capacity. 55,000. The Erie Canal "Soda" Pop Festival, also known colloquially as the Bull Island Rock Festival, was a rock festival held on September 2–4, 1972, on Bull Island, a strip of land in Illinois but on the Indiana side of the Wabash River near Griffin. A crowd of an estimated 200,000 to 300,000 people attended the concert, four ...
Release. September 4, 1966. ( 1966-09-04) –. August 31, 2014. ( 2014-08-31) The MDA Labor Day Telethon[ 1] was an annual telethon held on (starting the night before and throughout) Labor Day in the United States to raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA). The Muscular Dystrophy Association was founded in 1950 with hopes of ...