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May Day

(Encyclopedia)May Day, first day of May. Its celebration probably originated in the spring fertility festivals of India and Egypt. The festival of the Roman goddess of spring, Flora, was celebrated from Apr. 28 to ...

Armistice Day

(Encyclopedia)Armistice Day: see Veterans' Day.

Decoration Day

(Encyclopedia)Decoration Day: see Memorial Day. ...

Dominion Day

(Encyclopedia)Dominion Day: see Canada Day.

Valentine's Day

(Encyclopedia)Valentine's Day: see Saint Valentine's Day. ...

Schwinger, Julian Seymour

(Encyclopedia)Schwinger, Julian Seymour, 1918–94, American physicist, b. New York City, Ph.D. Columbia, 1939. He was a professor at the Univ. of California, Berkeley (1939–47) and worked under J. Robert Oppenhe...

Canada Day

(Encyclopedia)Canada Day, formerly Dominion Day, Canadian national holiday, celebrated July 1. It is the anniversary of the uniting in 1867 of Upper and Lower Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia as the dominion ...

Assange, Julian Paul

(Encyclopedia)Assange, Julian Paul äsänjˈ [key], 1971–, Australian Internet journalist and activist, founder of WikiLeaks, a whistleblower website that publishes documents and imag...

Day, Stockwell

(Encyclopedia)Day, Stockwell, 1950–, Canadian political leader, b. Barrie, Ontario. He grew up in Montreal, attended (1970–71) the Univ. of Victoria, and held such jobs as auctioneer, deckhand, lumberjack, cont...

Labor Day

(Encyclopedia)Labor Day, holiday celebrated in the United States and Canada on the first Monday in September to honor the laborer. It was inaugurated by the Knights of Labor in 1882 and made a national holiday by t...