| Public holidays and
special days
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| January
1 |
Liberation
Day. This day recalls January 1, 1959, when Cuba was liberated from the
Batista dictatorship.
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free
day
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| January
2 |
Victory
of the 1959 revolution. |
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| February
24 |
Beginning
of the 1895 War of Independence. |
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| March
8 |
International
Women's Day.
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| March
13 |
Anniversary
of the 1957 attack on Batista's palace. |
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| April
4 |
Children's
Day. |
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| April
19 |
Commemoration
of the 1961 victory at the Bay of Pigs. |
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| May
1 |
International
Labor Day. |
free
day |
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| July
25, 26, 27 |
Celebration
of the National Rebellion. This day commemorates the attack on army
barracks in Santiago de Cuba and Bayamo on July 26, 1953. |
free
day |
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| July
30 |
Day
of the Martyrs of the Revolution. |
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| September
28 |
Anniversary
of the founding of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution in
1960. |
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| October
8 |
The
day in 1967 on which Che Guevara was murdered
in Bolivia. |
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| October
10 |
Day
of Cuban Culture. This day marks the First War of Independence on
October 10, 1868. |
free
day |
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| October
28 |
Day
on which Camilo Cienfuegos was killed in a plane crash in 1959. |
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| November
27 |
Commemoration
of eight medical students killed by the Spaniards in 1871. |
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| December
2 |
Landing
of the Granma in Oriente in 1956. |
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| December
7 |
Anniversary
of the death of Antonio
Maceo. |
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| 2003 |
"Año de Gloriosos Aniversarios de Martí y del Moncada" |
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| 2002 |
"Año de los Héroes Prisioneros del Imperio" |
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| 2001 |
"Año de la Revolución Victoriosa en el Nuevo Milenio" |
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| 2000 |
"Año del 40 Aniversario de la Decisión de Patria o Muerte" |
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| 1999 |
"Año del 40 Aniversario del Triunfo de la Revolución" |
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| 1998 |
"Año del aniversario 40 de las batallas decisivas de la guerra de
liberación" |
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