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🇿🇼 Workers' Day in Zimbabwe
Also known as: Labour Day
International Workers' Day
Date in Zimbabwe
May 1
Public life in Zimbabwe
BanksClosed
SchoolsClosed
Government officesClosed
Calendar & celebration
Calendar systems
Gregorian
On this day in African history
- ? International Workers' Day or Labour Day
- 1936 Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie goes into exile as Italy invades Ethiopia. · Ethiopia
- 1947 Mbiyu Koinange departs for England to represent the Kenya African Union, presenting land petitions and pressing for colonial constitutional reform. · 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... · Kenya
- 1960 Tom Mboya helps form the Kenya African National Union and assumes office as its first Secretary-General. · Kenya
- 1960 Njoroge Mungai appointed secretary to the preparatory committee that founds the Kenya African National Union (KANU), Kenya's dominant political party. · Kenya