Liberation Day is a day, often a public holiday, that marks the liberation of a place, similar to an independence day, but differing from it because it does not involve the original creation of statehood. It commemorates the end of an occupation (as in the Falkland Islands) or the fall of a regime (as in Portugal) or the liberation from both a foreign occupation and a collaborationist regime (as in France and Italy).
List CountryDateYearEventName of holiday1989Soviet Union withdrawal from Afghanistan1944Liberation from Nazi GermanyDita e Çlirimit or Liberation Day1971Liberation from PakistanBijoy Dibosh in Bangladesh and Vijay Diwas in India's West Bengal, or Victory Day1944Liberation from Nazi GermanyRepublic Day or Independence Day1878Creation of the Principality of BulgariaLiberation Day1979Liberation from the Khmer RougeVictory Day1997Takeover of Kinshasa by Laurent-Désiré Kabila following the First Congo WarLiberation Day1959Cuban Revolution under the leadership of Fidel CastroTriunfo de la Revolución or Triumph of the Revolution1945Liberation from Nazi GermanyDen osvobození (Liberation Day)1945Liberation from Nazi GermanyBefrielsesdagen or Liberation Day1982Liberation from ArgentinaLiberation Day1944Liberation from Nazi Germany and the end of the Vichy Regime1944Liberation from Nazi Germany 1944Liberation from Japan Liberation Day (Channel Islands)1945Liberation from Nazi Germany Liberation Day1945Liberation from Japan, celebrated between 1945 and 1996 (no longer a holiday as of 1997) Liberation Day (V-J Day 30 August)1945Siege of Budapest, celebrated between 1950 and 1989 (no longer a holiday as of 1990) Liberation Day (Goa only)1961Liberation of Goa from PortugalGoa Liberation Day1963United Nations Temporary Executive Authority transferred control of Western New Guinea to Indonesia in accordance with the terms of the New York Agreement following the joint Soviet–Indonesian invasion of Dutch New Guinea. The Act of Free Choice in 1969 would unanimously confirm the Indonesian annexation of the territory.28 Iyar1967Reunification of Jerusalem in the Six-Day WarYom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Day)1945The victory of the Italian resistance movement against Nazi Germany and the Italian Social Republic, puppet state of the Nazis and rump state of the fascists, culmination of the liberation of Italy from German occupation and of the Italian Civil War, in the latter phase of World War II.Festa della Liberazione2003 Fall of Ba'athist Iraq."Baghdad Liberation Day" (Channel Islands)1945Liberation from Nazi Germany. Liberation Day1945Liberation from JapanGwangbokjeol1991Liberation from Iraq2000Withdrawal of the Israeli Forces from LebanonLiberation Day2011Muammar Gaddafi killed, ending the 2011 Libyan civil war1941Uprising Day in North Macedonia, the beginning of the National Liberation War of Macedonia1968End of Modibo Keïta's regime1944Liberation from Nazi GermanyLiberation Day1945Liberation from Nazi GermanyBevrijdingsdag or Liberation Day1979Nicaraguan Revolution1945Liberation from Japan1945Liberation from Nazi GermanyNovember 111918Gained independence from German Empire, Russian Empire, Austria-Hungary in the end of World War I after 123 years of occupation.Dzień Niepodległości (Independence Day)1974Fall of the Estado Novo (New State) fascist regime: known locally as the Carnation Revolution (Revolução dos Cravos)Freedom Day1994Victory of the RPF, ending the Rwandan genocideLiberation Day1945Liberation from Nazi GermanyDeň víťazstva nad fašizmom1982Liberation from Argentina2024End of the Ba'athist regime and Assad family ruleLiberation Day1967Military coup under the leadership of Etienne EyademaJour de la Libération1922End of the Turkish War of IndependenceZafer Bayramı (Victory Day)1986End of Tito Okello's regime and the capture of power by the Museveni regime1944Liberation from Nazi Germany completed as Red Army captures ChopLiberation Day (Ukraine)2025"Liberation Day" tariffs announced by United States president Donald Trump1975"Day of liberating the South for national reunification"Reunification Day
See also National Day Revolution Day
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