The state of Oregon became the first to grant legal status to Labor day in 1888. However, it's New York that held the first celebration of the holiday on September 5, 1882, when 10,000 members of the Knights of Labor held the first Labor Day parade in New York City.
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Alabama was the first state to declare Christmas a legal holiday in 1836
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The first state to recognize Christmas as a legal holiday was Alabama in 1836.
Alabama was the last state to adopt Labor Day as a holiday. Oregon was the first to adopt the holiday in 1884 (some sources say 1887), but it wasn't declared a national holiday until 1894.
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Oklahoma declared Christmas a legal holiday in 1907. It was the last state in the United States to do so. Alabama was the first state to declare this day a legal holiday in 1836.
Labor Day was set as the first Monday of September by the Federal Government in 1894. Prior to that it was celebrated in 30 states. The first state was Oregon, which declared it a holiday in 1887.