Freedom Day
Freedom Day may refer to one of the following holidays:
- Freedom Day (Ukraine) on January 22 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 March 25 in Belarus, anniversary of the establishment of the Belarusian People's Republic in 1918
- Freedom Day (Malta) on March 31, anniversary of the withdrawal of British troops from Malta, 1979
- Freedom Day (Portugal) on April 25, anniversary of Carnation Revolution in Portugal, 1974
- Freedom Day (South Africa) on April 27, anniversary of the first general election in South Africa after the end of apartheid in 1994
- Freedom Day (Malawi) on June 14, 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 February 1 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 January 16 in the United States, to commemorate the adoption of Thomas Jefferson's landmark Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom in 1786
- 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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