# Liberation Day

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, the fall of a dictatorship, as in Syria, or the end of an occupation by another state, as in the Netherlands, thereby differing from original independence day or creation of statehood, while in Italy commemorates the 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.

## List

| Country | Date | Year | Event | Name of holiday |
| Afghanistan | February 15 | 1989 | Soviet Union withdrawal from Afghanistan |
| Albania | November 29 | 1944 | Liberation from Nazi Germany | Dita e Çlirimit or Liberation Day |
| Bangladesh | December 16 | 1971 | Liberation from Pakistan | Bijoy Dibosh in Bangladesh and 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 | 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 | 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 osvobození (Liberation 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 | Liberation Day |
| Guernsey (Channel Islands) | May 9 | 1945 | Liberation from Nazi Germany | 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, 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 | The 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 Liberazione |
| Ba'athist Iraq | April 17 | 1988 | Liberation of Al-Faw from the Iranian regime and the decisive Iraqi victories that followed. | "Al-Faw Liberation Day" |
| Jersey (Channel Islands) | May 9 | 1945 | Liberation from Nazi Germany | Liberation Day |
| Korea, North / Korea, South | August 15 | 1945 | Liberation from Japan | Gwangbokjeol |
| Kuwait | February 26 | 1991 | Liberation from Iraq | |
| Lebanon | May 25 | 2000 | Withdrawal of the Israeli Forces from Lebanon | Liberation Day |
| Libya | October 23 | 2011 | Muammar Gaddafi killed, ending the 2011 Libyan civil war | |
| North Macedonia | October 11 | 1941 | Uprising Day in North Macedonia, the beginning of the National Liberation War of Macedonia | |
| 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 | |
| Poland | November 11 | 1918 | Gained independence from German Empire, 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 | Jour de la Libération |
| Turkey | August 30 | 1922 | End of the Turkish War of Independence | Zafer Bayramı (Victory Day) |
| Uganda | January 26 | 1986 | End of Tito Okello's regime and the capture of power by the Museveni regime | |
| Ukraine | October 28 | 1944 | Liberation from Nazi Germany completed as Red Army captures Chop | Liberation Day (Ukraine) |
| United States of America | January 20 | 2025 | Declaration by President Donald Trump during his inaugural address | Liberation Day |
| Vietnam | April 30 | 1975 | "Day of liberating the South for national reunification" | Reunification Day |