Liberation Day

Extracted Attributes

• Type

  Commemorative Public Holiday

• Purpose

  Marks the liberation of a place, end of occupation, or fall of a regime

• Distinction

  Differs from Independence Day; does not involve original creation of statehood

• Observed in (Examples)

  Afghanistan, Albania, Bangladesh, Falkland Islands, France, Italy, Moldova, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Northern Mariana Islands, Norway, Portugal

• Trump's Proclamation Date (Tariffs)

  2025-04-02

• Trump's Proclamation Name (Tariffs)

  Liberation Day

• Trump's Proclamation Purpose (Tariffs)

  Initiation of aggressive trade tariffs against China, addressing trade deficit, economic independence

• Other Trump-designated 'Liberation Days'

  2024-11-05 (Presidential Election Day), 2025-01-20 (Inauguration Day)

Timeline

• Moldova celebrates Liberation from Nazi Germany. (Source: Wikipedia)

  1944-08-24

• Albania celebrates Liberation from Nazi Germany. (Source: Wikipedia)

  1944-11-29

• First uprising and liberation took place in Bologna, Italy. (Source: Web Search)

  1945-04-21

• Italy celebrates Liberation Day, marking a nationwide uprising against Nazi occupation and Fascist regime, announced by the National Liberation Committee of Upper Italy (CLNAI). (Source: Web Search)

  1945-04-25

• Netherlands celebrates Liberation from Nazi Germany. (Source: Wikipedia)

  1945-05-05

• Norway celebrates Liberation from Nazi Germany. (Source: Wikipedia)

  1945-05-08

• Northern Mariana Islands celebrates Liberation from Japan. (Source: Wikipedia)

  1945-07-04

• Bangladesh celebrates Liberation from Pakistan (Bijoy Dibosh). (Source: Wikipedia)

  1971-12-16

• Nicaragua celebrates Liberation Day, marking the Nicaraguan Revolution. (Source: Wikipedia)

  1979-07-19

• Afghanistan celebrates Liberation Day, marking Soviet Union withdrawal. (Source: Wikipedia)

  1989-02-15

• Donald Trump refers to the US Presidential Election Day as 'Liberation Day in America'. (Source: Web Search)

  2024-11-05

• Donald Trump refers to his inauguration day as 'Liberation Day'. (Source: Web Search)

  2025-01-20

• Donald Trump declares this date 'Liberation Day' and initiates sweeping tariffs against China, signing Executive Order 14257. (Source: Related Documents, Web Search)

  2025-04-02

• Initial date for further tariff increases, which were postponed for 90 days due to global market crash. (Source: Web Search)

  2025-04-09

• New postponed deadline for tariff negotiations with China. (Source: Web Search)

  2025-08-01

• Temporary agreement with China on tariffs expires. (Source: Web Search)

  2025-08-12

Liberation Day

Liberation Day is a day, often a public holiday, that marks the liberation of a place, similar to an independence day, but differing from it because it does not involve the original creation of statehood. It commemorates the end of an occupation (as in the Falkland Islands) or the fall of a regime (as in Portugal) or the liberation from both a foreign occupation and a collaborationist regime (as in France and Italy).

Web Search Results

• Liberation Day - Wikipedia

  Liberation Day is a day, often a public holiday, that marks the liberation of a place, similar to an independence day, but differing from it because it does not involve the original creation of statehood. It commemorates the end of an occupation (as in the Falkland Islands "Liberation Day (Falkland Islands)")) or the fall of a regime (as in Portugal) or the liberation from both a foreign occupation and a collaborationist regime (as in France and Italy "Liberation Day (Italy)")). ## List [...] | Country | Date | Year | Event | Name of holiday | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Afghanistan | February 15 | 1989 | Soviet Union withdrawal from Afghanistan | | | Albania | November 29 | 1944 | Liberation from Nazi Germany | Dita e Çlirimit "Liberation Day (Albania)") or Liberation Day | | Bangladesh | December 16 | 1971 | Liberation from Pakistan | Bijoy Dibosh in Bangladesh and Vijay Diwas "Vijay Diwas (India)") in India's West Bengal, or Victory Day | [...] | Moldova | August 24 | 1944 | Liberation from Nazi Germany | Liberation Day "Liberation Day (Moldova)") | | Netherlands | May 5 | 1945 | Liberation from Nazi Germany | Bevrijdingsdag "Liberation Day (Netherlands)") or Liberation Day | | Nicaragua | July 19 | 1979 | Nicaraguan Revolution | | | Northern Mariana Islands | July 4 | 1945 | Liberation from Japan | | | Norway | May 8 | 1945 | Liberation from Nazi Germany | |

• “Liberation Day” Tariffs Explained - CSIS

  On April 2, 2025—a date President Trump proclaimed “Liberation Day”—the administration announced the most sweeping tariff hike since the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, the 1930 law best remembered for triggering a global trade war and deepening the Great Depression. [...] #### What’s Driving “Liberation Day”: Reckoning or Revenue Play? The rationale behind “Liberation Day” follows a two-part story. The first is the administration’s own framing, that this is a necessary corrective to decades of open U.S. markets being met with asymmetrical foreign tariffs and other barriers that boxed out U.S. goods. Only aggressive retaliation can reverse the damage and pull manufacturing back onshore.

• Liberation Day tariffs - Wikipedia

  In a White House Rose Garden address on April 2, 2025, Trump declared the day to be "Liberation Day", describing it as "one of the most important days in American history" and "our declaration of economic independence". The President signed Executive Order 14257, which declared a "national emergency" to address what he described as a "large and persistent U.S. trade deficit". Trump stated, "We're going to start being smart, and we're going to start being very wealthy again." He said the new [...] 2, 2025, a date he referred to as "Liberation Day".( [...] The "Liberation Day" tariff announcement led to a global market crash. In response, the White House postponed the April 9 tariff increases for 90 days to allow time for negotiation. By the end of this period, the U.S. reached agreements with the U.K.and Vietnam and a temporary agreement, expiring August 12, with China. The U.S. postponed the deadline for negotiations again to August 1, 2025.(

• What is 'Liberation Day' and what could it mean for you? What to know

  At a rally last year in Nevada, he said the day of the presidential election, Nov. 5, would be “Liberation Day in America.” He later gave his inauguration the same label, declaring in his address: “For American citizens, Jan. 20, 2025, is Liberation Day.” [...] NBC Chicago # What is ‘Liberation Day' and what could it mean for you? What to know ## “This is the beginning of Liberation Day in America,” Trump said #### Published March 31, 2025 • Updated on March 31, 2025 at 4:21 pm El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, en una foto de archivo. President Donald Trump has declared Wednesday what he's dubbed as “Liberation Day," but what does that mean and how could it impact you? [...] One worry is that even if Trump’s tariffs end up being less harsh than feared, all the uncertainty created by them alone could cause U.S. households and businesses to freeze their spending, which would hurt an economy that had been running at a solid pace to close last year. ## Why is Trump calling it ‘Liberation Day’? Based off Trump's public statements, April 2 is at least the third “liberation day” that he has identified.

• Why does Italy mark Liberation Day on 25 April? - Wanted in Rome

  The annual event marks the day in 1945 when a nationwide radio broadcast calling for a popular uprising and general strike against the Nazi occupation and Fascist regime was announced by the National Liberation Committee of Upper Italy (CLNAI), a political umbrella organisation representing the Italian Resistance movement. [...] Designated a national holiday in 1946, the Festa della Liberazione remains a divisive day in Italy, coming under attack each year from politicians on the right who refuse to celebrate the event. This year the holiday occurs during a five-day period of national mourning for Pope Francis, with those organising events in Italy asked that they be carried out with due "sobriety". [...] This announcement - made by partisan and future president of Italy Sandro Pertini - resulted in the capture and death of Fascist leader Benito Mussolini, who was shot three days later. Liberation The first uprising and liberation took place in Bologna on 21 April 1945, followed two days later by Genoa, then Milan on 25 April, and Turin and Venice on 28 April.

• Instance Of

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Liberation Day is a day, often a public holiday, that marks the liberation of a place, similar to an independence day. Liberation marks the date of either a revolution, as in Cuba, the fall of a dictatorship, as in Portugal, or the end of an occupation by another state, as in the Netherlands, thereby differing from original independence day or creation of statehood.