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
- January 1 — Cuba (1959)
- January 13 — Togo
- January 26 — Uganda (1986)
- February 15 — Afghanistan
- February 26 — Kuwait (1991. See also Gulf War.)
- March 3 — Bulgaria (1878. See also Treaty of San Stefano.)
- April 11 — Corleone, Sicily (2006. April 11 was the date when a 40 year Mafia fugitive was apprehended. See also Bernardo Provenzano.) [1]
- April 25 — Italy (1945; Liberazione.)
- April 30 — Vietnam (1975, see Reunification Day, Fall of Saigon.)
- May 5 — Denmark (1945), Ethiopia (1941), The Netherlands (see Liberation Day (The Netherlands)) (1945)
- May 8 — Norway (1945)
- May 9 — Guernsey (1945), Jersey (1945) (marking the end of the German Occupation of the Channel Islands during World War II)
- May 17 — Democratic Republic of the Congo
- May 25 — Lebanon (See Liberation Day (Lebanon), 2000)
- June 14— Falkland Islands (1982) and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (1982), marking the end of the Falklands War
- July 4 — Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (marking the end of World War II), Rwanda (marking the end of the genocide)
- July 19 — Nicaragua
- July 21 — Guam (see Battle of Guam, 1944)
- August 14 — Pakistan (1947)
- August 15 — India (1947), North Korea and South Korea (1945) a.k.a. Victory over Japan Day
- Last Monday in August — Hong Kong (1945-1996) (no longer a general holiday as of 1997) marked the end of Japanese occupation during World War II
- September 30 — Abkhazia (1993), also known as independence day, marking the end of the 1992-1992 war with Georgia and the beginning of de facto independence
- November 19 — Mali
- November 29 — Albania (known locally as Dita e Çlirimit)
- December 16 — Bangladesh (Victory Day), to commemorate the official signing of the Instrument of Surrender (1971) (Fall of Dacca) to the Pakistanis who surrendered the Pakistani armed forces in the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. This holiday is known as Vijay Diwas and Bijoy Dibosh in India's West Bengal and Bangladesh.
- December 19 — Goa (Liberation Day), in the state of Goa and the union territory of Daman and Diu to commemorate the liberation from Portuguese colonial rule by Indian armed forces during Operation Vijay (1961).
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