Remembrance Day in the Netherlands
Remembrance Day in the Netherlands is held on May 4. It was observed for the first time on May 4, 1946. Every year, people dedicate two minutes of silence at 8pm [local time] on May 4 to pay their respects to soldiers and civilians who died during World War II, as well as other military conflicts and peace-keeping missions. This event in the first decade of the month May is annual. 
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On May 4, the people of The Netherlands commemorate civilians and soldiers who have died in the Kingdom of the Netherlands or elsewhere in the world since the outbreak of the Second World War. Among those, more than 7,600 Canadians who died in the nine-month campaign to liberate the Netherlands in 1945. The commemoration takes place all around the world, where the network of embassies of the Kingdom of the Netherlands organizes commemorative services.
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King's Day on April 27 (Netherlands, Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten. Celebrated on April 26 if April 27 falls on a Sunday);
Liberation Day in the Netherlands on May 5 (Soon after the Second World War, it was decided that Liberation Day should be held on 5 May, the date of the German army’s defeat);
Mother’s Day on May 11 (Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bonaire, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Canada, Cambodia, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Congo, Dem. Rep., Congo, Rep., Cote d'Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Curaçao, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominica, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Faroe Islands, Fiji, Finland, Germany, Gabon, Gambia, Greenland, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guyana, Honduras, Hong Kong, Iceland, India, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Latvia, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Macau, Malaysia, Malta, Myanmar, Namibia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Singapore, Sint Maarten, Slovakia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United States, Uruguay, Vietnam, Venezuela, Zambia, Zimbabwe);
Mamertus, the first of the Ice Saints on May 11
Christ's Ascension on May 29 (or Kristi Himmelfartsdag in Norway);
World Naturist Day on June 1 (Starts on the first Sunday of June in the northern hemisphere and on the first Sunday of December in the southern hemisphere);
Grandparents and Great-Grandparents Day in Netherlands on June 4 (Opa en Oma Dag has been celebrated since 2004)
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