Freedom Day, noun phrase

1. The 26th of June, the anniversary of the first national work stoppage (1950), the launch of the Defiance Campaign (1952), and the endorsement of the Freedom Charter by the Congress of the People (1955); Freedom Charter Day, see Freedom Charter sense 2. Also attributive.
1981 Rand Daily Mail 26 June 5Today is ‘Freedom Day’, marking the 26th anniversary of the adoption of the Freedom Charter.
1984 City Press 1 JulySpecial services and rallies were held..this week to commemorate Freedom Day on June 26...On that day 32 years ago, the African National Congress and the South African Indian Congress launched the Campaign for the Defiance of Unjust Laws. June 26 was again an important year [sic] in the campaign against apartheid in 1955 — on that day, about 3 000 delegates from organisations affiliated to the Congress Alliance came together in Kliptown near Johannesburg. They adopted the historic Freedom Charter.
1985 Learn & Teach No.3, 18A day of mourning and protest was called on 26 June 1950 to remember those who died on May Day. June 26 was called Freedom Day. And since then, every year on June 26 people come together to remember those who have died in the struggle for freedom.
1987 South 2 July 9Cape strugglers were given a preview of the kind of festivities they might expect on Freedom Day at the UDF cultural evening.
2. The 27th of April, a public holiday instituted in 1995 commemorating the first non-racial elections held in South Africa in 1994.
1994 E. Prov. Herald 8 Dec. 2The confusion that has existed over the past few months regarding the public holidays for 1995 ended today, by the publication of the Public Holiday Act 1994 in the Government Gazette...The full list of public holidays is as follows:..April 27 Freedom Day, [etc.].
The 26th of June, the anniversary of the first national work stoppage (1950), the launch of the Defiance Campaign (1952), and the endorsement of the Freedom Charter by the Congress of the People (1955); Freedom Charter Day, see Freedom Charter sense 2. Also attributive.
The 27th of April, a public holiday instituted in 1995 commemorating the first non-racial elections held in South Africa in 1994.
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