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馃嚢馃嚜 Labour Day in Kenya
International Workers' Day
Date in Kenya
May 1
Instituted1963
Public life in Kenya
BanksClosed
SchoolsClosed
Government officesClosed
Calendar & celebration
Calendar systems
Gregorian
What this holiday commemorates
- 1947 Mbiyu Koinange departs for England to represent the Kenya African Union, presenting land petitions and pressing for colonial constitutional reform. 路 Kenya
- 1952 Joseph Murumbi returns to Kenya following the restoration of Italian authority in Somalia, and is introduced to the Kenya African Union (KAU) leadersh... 路 Kenya
- 1960 Njoroge Mungai appointed secretary to the preparatory committee that founds the Kenya African National Union (KANU), Kenya's dominant political party. 路 Kenya
- 1960 Tom Mboya helps form the Kenya African National Union and assumes office as its first Secretary-General. 路 Kenya
- 1963 (c.) Richard Achieng Oneko wins the Nakuru Town Constituency parliamentary seat, demonstrating trans-ethnic appeal in a cosmopolitan urban center outside h... 路 Kenya
- 1963 Paul Ngei leads the African People's Party to major electoral victories across Ukambani during Kenya's pre-independence elections. 路 Kenya
- 1970 (c.) Major General Joseph Ndolo asks Yatta MP Gideon Munyao Mutiso to draft a political manifesto justifying a military takeover. 路 Kenya
- 1980 Charles Njonjo elected unopposed to the National Assembly for the Kikuyu Constituency in a by-election held after the sitting MP's resignation. 路 Kenya
- 1999 Paul Ngei and his family evicted from their Garden Estate home after court-ordered auction proceedings. 路 Kenya
In Kenya, around 1963
- 1963 Jomo Kenyatta is elected Prime Minister of Kenya. 路 Kenya
- 1963 Kenya attains independence. 路 Kenya
- 1963 (c.) Joseph Murumbi appointed by Kenyatta as Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office upon Kenya's achievement of self-rule, overseeing defense, in... 路 Kenya
- 1963 (c.) Richard Achieng Oneko wins the Nakuru Town Constituency parliamentary seat, demonstrating trans-ethnic appeal in a cosmopolitan urban center outside h... 路 Kenya
- 1963 Richard Achieng Oneko appointed Minister for Information, Broadcasting and Tourism by Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta upon Kenya's attainment of self-gov... 路 Kenya
- 1963 Paul Ngei leads the African People's Party to major electoral victories across Ukambani during Kenya's pre-independence elections. 路 Kenya
Other countries celebrating Labour Day
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Algeria
May 1
馃嚘馃嚧
Angola
May 1
馃嚙馃嚡
Benin
May 1
馃嚙馃嚰
Botswana
May 1
馃嚙馃嚝
Burkina Faso
May 1
馃嚙馃嚠
Burundi
May 1
馃嚚馃嚮
Cape Verde
May 1
馃嚚馃嚥
Cameroon
May 1
馃嚚馃嚝
Central African Republic
May 1
馃嚬馃嚛
Chad
May 1
馃嚢馃嚥
Comoros
May 1
馃嚚馃嚞
Congo
May 1
馃嚚馃嚛
DRCongo
May 1
馃嚚馃嚠
C么te d'Ivoire
May 1
馃嚛馃嚡
Djibouti
May 1
馃嚞馃嚩
Equatorial Guinea
May 1
馃嚜馃嚪
Eritrea
May 1
馃嚫馃嚳
Eswatini
May 1
馃嚞馃嚘
Gabon
May 1
馃嚞馃嚥
Gambia
May 1
馃嚞馃嚦
Guinea
May 1
馃嚞馃嚰
Guinea-Bissau
May 1
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Libya
May 1
馃嚥馃嚞
Madagascar
May 1
馃嚥馃嚰
Malawi
May 1
馃嚥馃嚤
Mali
May 1
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Mauritania
May 1
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Mauritius
May 1
馃嚥馃嚘
Morocco
May 1
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Mozambique
May 1
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Niger
May 1
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Rwanda
May 1
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Sao Tome and Principe
May 1
馃嚫馃嚦
Senegal
May 1
馃嚫馃嚚
Seychelles
May 1
馃嚫馃嚤
Sierra Leone
May 1
馃嚫馃嚧
Somalia
May 1
馃嚫馃嚫
South Sudan
May 1
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Tanzania
May 1
馃嚬馃嚞
Togo
May 1
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Tunisia
May 1
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Uganda
May 1
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Zambia
May 1