May Day: Coincidences?

Dancing around a maypole at Barwick-in-Elmet, Yorkshire

A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
~Albert Camus

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
~Martin Luther King, Jr.

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May

~Shakespeare, Sonnet 18

May 1st, May Day

From Wikipedia:

May Day is related to the Celtic festival of Beltane and the Germanic festival of Walpurgis Night. May Day falls exactly half a year from November 1, another cross-quarter day which is also associated with various northern European pagan and the year in the Northern hemisphere, and it has traditionally been an occasion for popular and often raucous celebrations.

Coincidences on international workers day:

1. 2011: President Obama announces the death of Bin Laden
   1. Why were we subjected to a long wait of TV news time before he came out to announce it?
2. 2007: President Bush announces “Mission Accomplished” re: the “major conflict in Iraq has ended.”
   1. Announced on the USS Lincoln warship: Honest Abe…ahem
3. 1945: the death of Adolph Hitler is announced
4. 1707: Great Britain is formed, merging England, Wales and Scotland.

There are a lot of “big” events on May 1st (and I am sure you can find more on other days: that is not the point here); I just did not list them all. You can do some of the research yourself HERE. I just find it bizarre that three major events in less than 100 years occurred.

My feeling, and all it is is a feeling, no facts (so, yeah, kindly refrain from nasty comments: I’m allowed my feeling on this matter):

Starting in 1945, it feels like something Winston Churchill would have put forward, using a people’s day holiday to make a huge political announcement. It adds gravitas to the whole thing, big an event as it was unto itself. Someone savvy in PR in Bush’s cabinet  could have taken notice of this and used that date to push the (erroneous) message out, bolstering the president’s “history” for future generations. Using the ship he did was overkill, imho. Lastly, with all the Bush bashing, what better day to upstage the 2007 announcement but to bring forward the death of another monster, and then make us wait with bated breath, probably smoking a cigarette and biding time to heighten the effect once announced.

Makes me wonder what the next “big announcement” on a May 1st will be.

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