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The Catholic Church agreed to celebrate them on the nearest Sunday. September 11 (the day of the military coup in 1973) was established as a holiday (Día de la Liberación Nacional, "Day of National Liberation") by the military regime in 1981.
The celebration of Fiestas Patrias is an expression of Chilean culture. Traditional activities associated with the Dieciocho include Chilean rodeo, dancing the cueca, going to fondas, and barbecue. [4] Officially, activities on September eighteen are centered on a religious celebration "Te Deum Ecuménico de Fiestas Patrias". [5]
t. e. The 1973 Chilean coup d'état ( Spanish: Golpe de Estado en Chile de 1973) was a military overthrow of the democratic socialist president of Chile Salvador Allende and his Popular Unity coalition government. [10] [11] Allende, who has been described as the first Marxist to be democratically elected president in a Latin American liberal ...
International Workers' Day. International Workers' Day, also known as Labour Day in some countries [1] and often referred to as May Day, [2] [3] is a celebration of labourers and the working classes that is promoted by the international labour movement and occurs every year on 1 May, [4] [5] or the first Monday in May.
Sep. 2—The U.S. Department of Labor details the history of Labor Day. 1 What is Labor Day? Observed the first Monday in September, Labor Day is an annual celebration of the social and economic ...
According to the Department of Labor, workers in New York City celebrated the first Labor Day in the U.S. on September 5, 1882. That day, between 10,000 to 20,000 workers marched across lower ...
The day was first celebrated in Argentina in 1917, in Venezuela and Colombia in 1921, in Chile in 1922, and in Mexico, it was first celebrated in 1928. The day was also celebrated under this title in Spain until 1957, when it was changed to the Día de la Hispanidad ("Hispanicity Day"), and in Venezuela, it was celebrated under this title until ...
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