Freedom Day

Freedom Day may refer to one of the following holidays:

  • Freedom Day (Ukraine) on 22 January in Ukraine, anniversary of the signing of the Act Zluky by the Ukrainian People's Republic and the West Ukrainian People's Republic in 1919
  • Freedom Day (Belarus) on 25 March in Belarus, anniversary of the establishment of the Belarusian People's Republic in 1918
  • Freedom Day (Malta) on 31 March, anniversary of the withdrawal of British troops from Malta, 1979
  • Freedom Day (Portugal) on 25 April, anniversary of Carnation Revolution in Portugal, 1974
  • Freedom Day (South Africa) on 27 April, anniversary of the first general election in South Africa after the end of apartheid in 1994
  • Freedom Day (Malawi) on 14 June, anniversary of the first free election in Malawi in 1994
  • World Freedom Day on 23 January in Taiwan and South Korea to mark the return of ex-communist war prisoners of the Korean War
  • World Freedom Day (United States) on 9 November in the United States, to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989
  • National Freedom Day on 1 February in the United States, to honor the signing by Abraham Lincoln of a joint House and Senate resolution that later became the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
  • National Religious Freedom Day on 16 January in the United States, to commemorate the adoption of Thomas Jefferson's landmark Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom in 1786
  • Chicago Public School Boycott of 22 October 1963, also known as Freedom Day
  • Juneteenth on 19 June, also known as Freedom Day
  • An informal name for the anniversary (25 March) of the passage of Slave Trade Act 1807 in the United Kingdom
  • The fictional holiday celebrated in the episode "A Taste of Freedom" of the animated TV show Futurama

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