Labor Day traditionally is celebrated on the first Monday of September every year. Created by the labor movement it is dedicated to the American worker.
The first Labor Day was celebrated on Tuesday, September 5, 1882, in New York City. In 1894 Congress passed an act that made the first Monday in September of each year a legal holiday in the District of Columbia and the territories.
The Knights of Labor held a large parade celebrating the working class on the first Monday in September in 1882 in New York and passed a resolution to hold all future parades on that same day every year.
