Liberation Day
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Liberation Day is a day, often a
independence day. Liberation marks the date of either a revolution, as in Cuba, the fall of a dictatorship, as in Portugal, or the end of an occupation by another state, as in the Netherlands
, thereby differing from original independence day or creation of statehood.
List
Country | Date | Year | Event | Name of holiday |
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Afghanistan | February 15 | 1989 | Soviet Union withdrawal from Afghanistan | Liberation Day |
Albania | November 29 | 1944 | Liberation from Nazi Germany
|
Dita e Çlirimit or Liberation Day |
Bangladesh | December 16 | 1971 | Liberation from Pakistan | Vijay Diwas in India's West Bengal , or Victory Day
|
Belarus | July 3 | 1944 | Liberation from Nazi Germany | Republic Day or Independence Day |
Bulgaria | March 3[1] | 1878 | Creation of the Principality of Bulgaria | Liberation Day |
Cambodia | January 7 | 1979 | Liberation from the Khmer Rouge | Victory Day |
Congo, Democratic Republic of the | May 17 | 1997 | Takeover of Kinshasa by Laurent-Désiré Kabila following the First Congo War[2] | Liberation Day |
Cuba | January 1 | 1959 | Cuban Revolution under the leadership of Fidel Castro | Triunfo de la Revolución or Triumph of the Revolution |
Czech Republic | May 8 | 1945 | Liberation from Nazi Germany
|
Den vítězství (Victory Day), until 2004 called Den osvobození (Liberation Day) |
Ethiopia | May 5 | 1941 | Liberation from Italy
|
Arbegnoch Qen or Patriots' Day |
Falkland Islands | June 14 | 1982 | Liberation from Argentina | Liberation Day |
France | August 25 | 1944 | Liberation from Nazi Germany and the end of the Vichy Regime | |
Greece | October 12 | 1944 | Liberation from Nazi Germany | |
Guam | July 21 | 1944 | Liberation from Japan[3][4][5] | Liberation Day |
Guernsey (Channel Islands) | May 9 | 1945 | Liberation from Nazi Germany[6] | Liberation Day |
Hungary | April 4 | 1945 | Siege of Budapest, celebrated between 1950 and 1989 (no longer a holiday as of 1990) | Liberation Day |
Hong Kong | Last Monday in August | 1945 | Liberation from Japan,[7] celebrated between 1945 and 1996 (no longer a holiday as of 1997) | Liberation Day (V-J Day 30 August) |
India | December 19 (Goa only) | 1961 | Liberation of Goa from Portugal
|
Goa Liberation Day |
Israel | 28 Iyar | 1967 | Reuinfication of Jerusalem in the Six-Day War
|
Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Day) |
Italy | April 25 | 1945 | General insurrection in Northern Italy by the Nazi German occupation
|
Liberazione |
Jersey (Channel Islands) | May 9 | 1945 | Liberation from Nazi Germany[8] | Liberation Day |
Korea, North / Korea, South | August 15 | 1945 | Liberation from Japan | Gwangbokjeol
|
Kuwait | February 26 | 1991 | Liberation from Iraq[9] | |
Lebanon | May 25 | 2000 | Withdrawal of the Israeli Forces from Lebanon | Liberation Day
|
Libya | October 23 | 2011 | 2011 Libyan civil war
|
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North Macedonia | October 11 | 1941 | National Liberation War of Macedonia
|
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Mali | November 19 | 1968 | End of Modibo Keïta's regime | |
Moldova | August 24 | 1944 | Liberation from Nazi Germany | Liberation Day (Moldova) |
Netherlands | May 5 | 1945 | Liberation from Nazi Germany
|
Bevrijdingsdag or Liberation Day |
Nicaragua | July 19 | 1979 | Nicaraguan Revolution | |
Northern Mariana Islands | July 4 | 1945 | Liberation from Japan | |
Norway | May 8 | 1945 | Liberation from Nazi Germany
|
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Poland | November 11 | 1918 | Gained independence from Russian empire, Austria-Hungary in the end of World War I after 123 years of occupation.
|
Dzień Niepodległości (Independence Day) |
Portugal | April 25 | 1974 | Fall of the Estado Novo (New State) fascist regime: known locally as the Carnation Revolution (Revolução dos Cravos) | Freedom Day
|
Rwanda | July 4 | 1994 | Victory of the RPF, ending the Rwandan genocide | Liberation Day |
Slovakia | May 8 | 1945 | Liberation from Nazi Germany
|
Deň víťazstva nad fašizmom |
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands | April 25 | 1982 | Liberation from Argentina | |
Togo | January 13 | 1967 | Military coup under the leadership of Etienne Eyadema[10]
|
Jour de la Libération |
Turkey | August 30 | 1922 | End of the Turkish War of Independence | Zafer Bayramı (Victory Day) |
Uganda | January 26[11] | 1986 | End of Museveni regime
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Ukraine | October 28 | 1944 | Liberation from Nazi Germany completed as Red Army captures Chop | Liberation Day (Ukraine) |
Vietnam | April 30 | 1975 | "Day of liberating the South for national reunification" | Reunification Day |
See also
- National Day
- Revolution Day
References
- ISBN 978-9-041-13616-9.
- ^ "Liberation Day in DR Congo in 2021". Office Holidays. Retrieved January 4, 2021.
- ^ Norman Sklarewitz (10 July 2012). "Guam: Tourist site steeped in military history, to mark Liberation Day". Stars and Stripes. Retrieved 24 February 2013.
- ISBN 9780792300694. Retrieved 24 February 2012.
- ISBN 9780316054638. Retrieved 24 February 2012.
- ^ Johnson, Ben. "Guernsey". Historic UK. Retrieved September 18, 2018.
- ^ "Hong Kong ceremony foreshadows end of an era". CNN. 26 August 1996. Archived from the original on 18 June 2022. Retrieved 18 June 2022.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-05-11. Retrieved 2012-05-13.
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- ^ "Liberation Day in Togo / January 13, 2020". AnydayGuide. Retrieved September 14, 2020.
- ^ "National Events Calendar". Government of Uganda. Retrieved 25 January 2017.