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| Country | Date | Event |
|---|---|---|
| Cuba | 01-01 !January 1 | 1959 - Cuban Revolution under the leadership of Fidel Castro |
| Togo | 01-12 !January 13 | 1967 - Military coup under the leadership of Etienne Eyadema |
| Uganda | 01-26 !January 26 | 1986 - End of Tito Okello's regime |
| Afghanistan | 02-15 !February 15 | 1989 - Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan |
| Kuwait | 02-26 !February 26 | 1991 - Liberation from Iraq |
| Bulgaria | 03-03 !March 3 | 1878 - Treaty of San Stefano ending the 482-year Ottoman rule in Bulgaria |
| Sicily | 04-11 !April 11 | 2006 - Corleone, Sicily (arrest date of Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano) |
| Italy | 04-25 !April 25 | 1945 - End of Benito Mussolini's regime (known locally as Liberazione) |
| Portugal | 04-25 !April 25 | 1974 - End of Oliveira Salazar's regime (known locally as Revolução dos Cravos) |
| South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands | 04-25 !April 25 | 1982 - Liberation from Argentina |
| Vietnam | 04-30 !April 30 | 1975 - End of Vietnam War (also known as Reunification Day) |
| Ethiopia | 05-05 !May 5 | 1941 - Liberation from Italy |
| Denmark | 05-05 !May 5 | 1945 - Liberation from Nazi Germany |
| Netherlands | 05-05 !May 5 | 1945 - Liberation from Nazi Germany |
| Czech Republic | 05-08 !May 8 | 1945 - Liberation from Nazi Germany |
| Norway | 05-08 !May 8 | 1945 - Liberation from Nazi Germany |
| Guernsey | 05-09 !May 9 | 1945 - Liberation from Nazi Germany |
| Jersey | 05-09 !May 9 | 1945 - Liberation from Nazi Germany |
| Sark | 05-10 !May 10 | 1945 - Liberation from Nazi Germany |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | 05-17 !May 17 | 1997 - Coup lead by Laurent-Désiré Kabila |
| Lebanon | 05-25 !May 25 | 2000 - Withdrawal of the Israeli Army from Southern Lebanon |
| Falkland Islands | 06-14 !June 14 | 1982 - Liberation from Argentina |
| Northern Mariana Islands | 07-04 !July 4 | 1945 - Liberation from Japan |
| Rwanda | 07-04 !July 4 | 1994 - End of the Rwandan genocide |
| Nicaragua | 07-19 !July 19 | 1979 - Nicaraguan Revolution |
| Guam | 07-21 !July 21 | 1944 - Liberation from Japan |
| Pakistan | 08-14 !August 14 | 1947 - Independence from the British Empire and partition of India |
| North Korea / South Korea | 08-15 !August 15 | 1945 - Liberation from Japan |
| India | 08-15 !August 15 | 1947 - Independence from the British Empire |
| France | 08-25 !August 25 | 1944 - Liberation from Nazi Germany |
| Hong Kong | 08-32 !Last Monday in August | 1945 - Liberation from Japan, celebrated between 1945-1996 (no longer a general holiday as of 1997) |
| Turkey | 12-19 !August 30 | 1922 - (1922)|Liberation from W.W. I Allied Forces (incl.; France, United Kingdom, Greece, Italy & Armenia) (Başkumandanlık Meydan Muharebesi, meaning "All-out battle of Supreme military commands") |
| Abkhazia | 09-30 !September 30 | 1993 - End of the war with Georgia and the beginning of de facto independence |
| Libya | 10-23 !October 23 | 2011 - End of the Libyan civil war and death of Muammar Gaddafi |
| Ukraine | 10-28 !October 28 | 1944 - Liberation from Nazi Germany completed as Red Army captures Chop |
| Mali | 11-19 !November 19 | 1968 - End of Modibo Keïta's regime |
| Albania | 11-29 !November 29 | 1944 - Liberation from Nazi Germany (known locally as Dita e Çlirimit) |
| Bangladesh | 12-16 !December 16 | 1971 - Liberation from Pakistan (known as Vijay Diwas and Bijoy Dibosh in India's West Bengal and Bangladesh) |
| Goa | 12-19 !December 19 | 1961 - Liberation from Portuguese colonial rule |
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