Guatemala Revolution Day
Guatemala Revolution Day is held on October 20. One of the two Patriotic Days. This event in the second decade of the month October is annual. 
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The Guatemalan Revolution of 1944, also known as the October Revolution or as the October 20, was a civic-military movement that occurred in Guatemala on October 20, 1944, carried out by soldiers, students and workers, which overthrew the Government of Guatemala. de facto of Federico Ponce Vaides, gave rise to the first free elections in that country, and inaugurated a period of ten years of modernization of the State for the benefit of the working class majorities. Subsequent historiography has called this period the "Ten Years of Spring" or the "Golden Age" of Guatemala, and currently October 20 is a national holiday in that Central American country, commemorated as the Day of the 1944 Revolution.
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