Liberation Day

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For the novel, see Liberation Day (novel).

Liberation Day is a day, often a public holiday, that marks the liberation of a place, similar to an independence day. Liberation marks the date of either a revolution, as in Cuba, or the end of an occupation by another state, thereby differing from independence in the meaning of secession from another country.

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Country	Date	Event
Cuba	01-01 !January 1	1959 - Cuban Revolution under the leadership of Fidel Castro
Togo	01-12 !January 13	1967 - Military coup under the leadership of Etienne Eyadema
Uganda	01-26 !January 26	1986 - End of Tito Okello's regime
Afghanistan	02-15 !February 15	1989 - Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan
Kuwait	02-26 !February 26	1991 - Liberation from Iraq
Bulgaria	03-03 !March 3	1878 - Treaty of San Stefano ending the 482-year Ottoman Yoke in Bulgaria
Sicily	04-11 !April 11	2006 - Corleone, Sicily (arrest date of Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano)^[1]
Italy	04-25 !April 25	1945 - End of Benito Mussolini's regime (known locally as Liberazione)
Vietnam	04-30 !April 30	1975 - End of Vietnam War (also known as Reunification Day)
Ethiopia	05-05 !May 5	1941 - Liberation from Italy
Denmark	05-05 !May 5	1945 - Liberation from Nazi Germany
Netherlands	05-05 !May 5	1945 - Liberation from Nazi Germany
Czech Republic	05-08 !May 8	1945 - Liberation from Nazi Germany
Norway	05-08 !May 8	1945 - Liberation from Nazi Germany
Jersey and Guernsey	05-09 !May 9	1945 - Liberation from Nazi Germany^[2]^[3]
Sark	05-10 !May 10	1945 - Liberation from Nazi Germany^[2]^[3]
Democratic Republic of the Congo	05-17 !May 17	1997 - Coup lead by Laurent-Désiré Kabila
Lebanon	05-25 !May 25	2000 - Withdrawal of the Israeli Army from Southern Lebanon
Falkland Islands / South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands	06-14 !June 14	1982 - Liberation from Argentina
Northern Mariana Islands	07-04 !July 4	1945 - Liberation from Japan
Rwanda	07-04 !July 4	1994 - End of the Rwandan genocide
Nicaragua	07-19 !July 19	1979 - Nicaraguan Revolution
Guam	07-21 !July 21	1944 - Liberation from Japan
Pakistan	08-14 !August 14	1947 - Independence from the British Empire and partition of India
North Korea / South Korea	08-15 !August 15	1945 - Liberation from Japan
India	08-15 !August 15	1947 - Independence from the British Empire
France	08-25 !August 25	1944 - Liberation from Nazi Germany
Hong Kong	08-32 !Last Monday in August	1945 - Liberation from Japan, celebrated between 1945-1996 (no longer a general holiday as of 1997)
Abkhazia	09-30 !September 30	1993 - End of the war with Georgia and the beginning of de facto independence
Libya	10-23 !October 23	2011 - End of the Libyan civil war and death of Muammar Gaddafi.
Mali	11-19 !November 19	1968 - End of Modibo Keïta's regime
Albania	11-29 !November 29	1944 - Liberation from Nazi Germany (known locally as Dita e Çlirimit)
Bangladesh	12-16 !December 16	1971 - Liberation from Pakistan (known as Vijay Diwas and Bijoy Dibosh in India's West Bengal and Bangladesh)
Goa	12-19 !December 19	1961 - Liberation from Portuguese colonial rule