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[W]hen President Grover Cleveland signed the bill making Labor Day a national holiday on the first Monday in September, he and its sponsors intended it not as a celebration of leisure but as a promotion of the great American work ethic. Work, they believed, was the highest calling in life, and Labor Day was a reminder to get back to it. It was placed at the end of summer to declare an end to the season of indolence, and also to distance it from May Day, the spring event that had become a symbol of the radical labor movement.
— Thaddeus Russell
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Today is Monday, September 4th, the 247th day of 2023. There are 118 days left in the year. It is Eat an Extra Dessert Day and National Macadamia Nut Day.
On This Day
In 1781, Spanish settlers founded what became Los Angeles as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora La Reina de los Ángeles.
In 1862, General Robert E. Lee took the Army of Northern Virginia into the North for the first time.
In 1886, after almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo, with his remaining warriors, surrendered to General Nelson Miles in Arizona.
In 1888, George Eastman registered the trademark Kodak and received a patent for his camera that used roll film.
In 1941, a German submarine made the first attack of World War II against a U.S. warship, the USS Greer.
In 1951, Frank Sinatra played Las Vegas for the first time, performing at the Desert Inn hotel and casino. In 1959, with his “rat pack,” he became a top draw in the city.
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