Statehood Day (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Statehood Day () is a holiday celebrated in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina that occurs every year on 25 November. Bosnia and Herzegovina choose to commemorate the day in 1943 on which the State Anti-fascist Council for the National Liberation of Bosnia and Herzegovina ("ZAVNOBiH") made Resolution of "ZAVNOBiH" declaring B&H peoples' will for Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia to be their country. The Law on the Proclamation of 25 November as the Statehood Day of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Official Gazette of R B&H, No. 9/95) stipulates that on 25 November is the Statehood  Day of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Statehood Day should not to be confused with Independence Day, which is held each year on 1 March in honor of the 1992 referendum that indicated that a majority of Bosniaks and Croats were in favor of becoming a sovereign nation. The total turnout of voters was 63.73%, 99.7% of whom voted for independence while the majority of the Serb population boycotted the referendum.