May 1, 1900.
This day was International Workers' Day, established by the Second International as early as 1889 to commemorate the May Day strike by workers in Chicago, United States.
It was worth mentioning that May 1 in East Africa was already Labor Day because of Ernst, only without the qualifier "International." In the future, East Africans would add National Day to their May Day celebrations. At the same time, Ernst decided to extend East Africa's May Day holiday from three days to seven—an entire week.
East Africa itself was a country with relatively few holidays. As a new nation, Ernst had abolished certain European religious festivals. East Africa also had no obvious winter, and its territory was divided into two halves by the equator. This meant there was no nationwide, universally shared slack season for farming. Therefore, in order to minimize interference with agricultural production, many traditional European and Asian holidays found no market in East Africa.
This meant that in the future, May Day would become East Africa's most important holiday after the New Year, and its second-longest break aside from student vacations.
East African students had two holidays: the long break during the Southern Hemisphere summer, which overlapped with the East African New Year, and the short break during the Southern Hemisphere winter.
Because most of East Africa's territory lay in the Southern Hemisphere, and Southern Hemisphere summer was precisely Northern Hemisphere winter, when students in other countries had their winter break, East Africa was at its hottest nationwide. Thus, it was effectively East Africa's summer vacation. Combined with its overlap with the East African New Year, this was also the longest holiday, lasting nearly two months. By contrast, the short break lasted only a little over a month.
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