SEPTEMBER 5
1882:Workers celebrate the nation's first Labor Day
with a parade in New York City, organized by the Central Labor Union.
Now celebrated on the first Monday in September, Labor Day will become a
national holiday in 1894 through an act of Congress.
1945: Iva Toguri D'Aquino is arrested in Yokohama, Japan.
D'Aquino, a Japanese American, is suspected of being "Tokyo Rose," a
radio announcer who broadcasted morale-disrupting propaganda to Allied
troops during World War II.
1976: The former comedy duo of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis are unexpectedly reunited by Frank Sinatra during the Muscular Dystrophy Association's Labor Day
Telethon, hosted by Lewis on NBC. After not speaking to one another for
20 years, a teasing Lewis asks Martin, "So, you working?"
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