# Freedom Day

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**Freedom Day** may refer to any of the following days:

## National and international

### United States

- [Juneteenth](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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)](/source/World_Freedom_Day_(United_States)) on 9 November in the United States, to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989

### Other countries

- [Freedom Day (Belarus)](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Public_holidays_in_Malawi)
- [Freedom Day (Malta)](/source/Freedom_Day_(Malta)) on 31 March, anniversary of the withdrawal of British troops from Malta, 1979
- [Freedom Day (Portugal)](/source/Freedom_Day_(Portugal)) on 25 April, anniversary of Carnation Revolution in Portugal, 1974
- [Freedom Day (South Africa)](/source/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)](/source/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](/source/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

### United States

- [Liberation and Freedom Day](/source/Liberation_and_Freedom_Day), 3 March, commemorating the day in 1865 when Union troops arrived in Charlottesville, Virginia, liberating the slaves
- [Chicago Public School Boycott](/source/Chicago_Public_School_Boycott) of 22 October 1963, also known as Freedom Day
- [New York City school boycott](/source/New_York_City_school_boycott) of 3 February 1964, also known as Freedom Day

### Other places

- Freedom Day, an annual celebration marking the [Wave Hill walk-off](/source/Wave_Hill_walk-off), a landmark in Indigenous land rights, on 23 August at Kalkarindji, Australia
- "[Freedom Day](/source/Timeline_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic_in_the_United_Kingdom_(July%E2%80%93December_2021)#19_July)" in the United Kingdom, 19 July 2021, on which the last remaining social contact restrictions due to COVID-19 were repealed

## Television

- Freedom Day, the fictional holiday celebrated in the episode "[A Taste of Freedom](/source/A_Taste_of_Freedom)" of *Futurama* in 2002
- ["Freedom Day" (*Silo*)](/source/Freedom_Day_(Silo)), a 2023 television episode

## See also

- [National Day](/source/National_Day)
- [Liberation Day](/source/Liberation_Day)
- [Revolution Day](/source/Revolution_Day)
- [List of national independence days](/source/List_of_national_independence_days)

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