Heroes' Day in Angola
Heroes' Day in Angola is held on September 17. It is also the birthday of Antonio Neto, Angola’s premier “founding father”. This event in the second decade of the month September is annual. 
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Agostinho Neto, in full António Agostinho Neto, (born September 17, 1922, Icolo e Bengo, Angola—died September 10, 1979, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.), Angolan poet, physician, and politician who served as the first president (1975–79) of the People’s Republic of Angola.
Neto first became known in 1948, when he published a volume of poems in Luanda and joined a national cultural movement that was aimed at “rediscovering” indigenous Angolan culture (similar to the Negritude movement of the French-speaking African countries). His first of many arrests for political activities came shortly thereafter in Lisbon, where he had gone to study medicine.
Similar holidays and events, festivals and interesting facts
Lubango Festival in Angola on August 1
Angola Armed Forces Day on October 9
Angola Independence Day on November 11 (celebrates the independence of Angola from Portugal in 1975);
National Festival of Angolan Culture on December 18 (It serves as a point of promotion of cohesion, unity and diversity of the Angolan culture);
Day of the Fallen against the Colonial Repression on January 4
Day of the Armed Struggle or Liberation Movement Day in Angola on February 4 (to commemorate the day in 1961 when Angolan MPLA (People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola) forces assaulted a prison house in Luanda and freed independence leaders who were incarcerated there);
Carnival in Angola on March 4 (The main day of Carnival season is a public holiday in Angola, falling on the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday)
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