Today Is...Spring Bank Holiday

Bank Holidays happen several times a year, but no one actually knows what the holiday is in celebration of, to be fair i don't but it means a day off work we so don't care really.
In Britain, Good Friday and Christmas Day have always been customary holidays since time immemorial and in 1871 Easter Monday, Whit Monday, the first Monday in August and Boxing Day were added to the list in 1871 when Liberal politician and banker Sir John Lubbock instigated a law which said 'no person was compelled to make any payment or to do any act upon a bank holiday which he would not be compelled to do or make on Christmas Day or Good Friday, and the making of a payment or the doing
of an act on the following day was equivalent to doing it on the holiday' so thanks Sir Lubbock.
New Years Day was added to the list in 1974 which means that we know have 8 'Official' Days off when we get paid to sit at home watching TV which are gratefully received but still one of the lowest Bank Holidays in the World with Myanmar having 32 and Nepal 30 opportunities to wake up midweek at midday so still so ways to go for us Brits although we do get some use out of having a Royal Family because we tend to get a day off when a senior one is married, coronated or dies.   
When Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II died, the most Googled question was 'Do we get a Day off?' which we did and we get another one when Charles III is crowned so woo hoo. Not that i will be watchign but woo-hoo anyway.
There is sometimes talk of making a few more Bank Holidays but the grumpy Government always poo-poo the idea and cite the loss of productivity as each Bank Holiday costs the economy £1.4bn. Miserable buggers.