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Freedom Day

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Freedom Day may refer to any of the following days:

National and international

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United States

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  • Juneteenth on 19 June in the United States, also known as Freedom Day, commemorating the day in 1865 when Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, announcing the end of slavery
  • 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
  • World Freedom Day (United States) on 9 November in the United States, to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989

Other countries

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  • Freedom Day (Belarus) on 25 March in Belarus, anniversary of the establishment of the Belarusian People's Republic in 1918
  • Freedom Day in Equatorial Guinea on 3 August, see Public holidays in Equatorial Guinea
  • Freedom Day in Malawi on 14 June, anniversary of the first free election in Malawi in 1994; see Public holidays in Malawi
  • 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 (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
  • World Freedom Day on 23 January in Taiwan and South Korea to mark the return of ex-communist war prisoners of the Korean War

Local, regional, and informal days

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United States

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Other places

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  • Freedom Day, an annual celebration marking the Wave Hill walk-off, a landmark in Indigenous land rights, on 23 August at Kalkarindji, Australia
  • "Freedom Day" in the United Kingdom, 19 July 2021, on which the last remaining social contact restrictions due to COVID-19 were repealed

Television

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See also

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