Day to celebrate the naval forces in some countries
Several nations observe or have observed a
Navy Day
to recognize their
navy
.
By country
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Argentina
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The
Argentine Navy
day is celebrated on May 17, anniversary of the victory achieved in 1814 in the
Battle of Montevideo
.
[1]
Bahrain
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The
Royal Bahrain Naval Force
Day is celebrated on February 18.
Bangladesh
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The
Bangladesh Navy
Day is celebrated on March 26, in anniversary the
Independence Day
of Bangladesh, the day in which
Bangladesh Navy
first came into existence.
Bulgaria
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Bulgaria
's Navy Day is celebrated on the second Sunday in August.
[2]
Chile
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The
Dia de las Glorias Navales
is a public holiday in
Chile
on May 21.
[3]
It commemorates the
Battle of Iquique
on May 21, 1879, in the
War of the Pacific
.
Until 2015 and since 2018, the day also marked the opening of the ordinary
Parliamentary season
(through September 18,
Independence Day
) and is the traditional day for the
President
's State of the Nation address.
Principal civic acts are performed in Santiago de Chile,
Iquique
and
Valparaiso
, where the Chilean Navy Headquarters are located, as well as in
Punta Arenas
,
Puerto Montt
,
Arica
and
Talcahuano
.
China
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The
People's Liberation Army
of China celebrates the founding of its naval arm on "Navy Day", 23 April.
[4]
Croatia
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The
Day of the Croatian Navy
is celebrated on September 18.
Ecuador
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Navy Day (
Dia de la Armada Nacional
) is celebrated on July 25, in commemoration of the Battle of Jambeli (July 25, 1941), part of the
Ecuadorian?Peruvian War
.
[5]
India
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Navy day in India is celebrated on 4 December every year to celebrate the achievements and role of its naval force. It commemorates the day when Indian Naval Ships set Karachi ablaze and gave a successful completion of
Operation Trident
.
Iran
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November 28 is a Navy Day in
Iran
. It commemorates
Operation Morvarid
of 1980, a major
Iranian Navy
victory during the
Iran?Iraq War
.
[6]
Israel
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In Israel, Navy Day (
??? ??? ???
) is celebrated on June 30. At this time in 1948 the Port of
Haifa
was captured by Israel during the
1948 Arab-Israeli War
. Traditionally, Navy Day is preceded by Memorial Evening.
In 1993 Admiral
Ami Ayalon
decided to hold the
Israel Navy
day in the last week of October, commemorating victories in several wars:
- The sinking of the Egyptian Navy flagship
El Amir Farouq
on 22 October 1948.
- Capture of the Egyptian frigate
Ibrahim el Awal
on 31 October 1956.
- The overwhelming successful actions of the
Yom Kippur War
, 6?24 October 1973.
Memorial Evening was rescheduled as well, marking the loss of destroyer
INS Eilat
on 21/10/1967. As of 2009 the celebrations have been elongated for a week, which for practical reasons, are held each year in August.
Another significance of June 30 Navy Day is a legacy of the
Soviet Union
that introduced this holiday in June 1939; the date was chosen because of a connection with the day the
Battle of Gangut
took place.
[7]
This date is celebrated by a number of Soviet Jews who immigrated to Israel in 1990s.
Italy
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In Italy, Navy Day is June 10
[8]
and it is not a
national holiday
. It commemorates the sinking of the
Austro-Hungarian
dreadnought
SMS
Szent Istvan
by the Italian
torpedo boat
MAS-15
on June 10, 1918.
Japan
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In the
Empire of Japan
, Navy Anniversary Day (海軍記念日, Kaigun Kinen'bi) was May 27 from 1906 until 1945. It was in commemoration of the
Battle of Tsushima
.
Mexico
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In Mexico, the
Mexican Navy
celebrates Navy Day on November 23, in honor of the
1825 Spanish surrender
to naval ships stationed at
San Juan de Ulua
.
[9]
June 1 is National Maritime (Merchant Marine) Day, in honor of the
Tabasco,
the first ship crewed exclusively by Mexican-born sailors (1917) and the
Potrero del Llano
and
Faja de Oro,
Mexican oil tankers sunk on May 13 and 20, 1942, during World War II.
[10]
[11]
Netherlands
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In The Netherlands the navy days ("
vlootdagen
") are held on the first weekend of July, with major events organized by the
Royal Netherlands Navy
.
Peru
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In Peru, Navy Day is a national holiday celebrated on 8 October in commemoration of the
Battle of Angamos
in 1879 and the anniversary of
Peruvian Navy
creation in 1821.
Pakistan
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In
Pakistan
, Navy Day (
Urdu
:
??? ?????
), is celebrated on September 8 in commemoration of the
Indo-Pakistan war of 1965
. September 8, 1965 was the day when
Pakistan Navy
launched its successful strategic operation against India, codename
Operation Dwarka
, by the
25th Destroyer Squadron
. Indian squadron was annihilated after the attack and suffered heavy causalties, after the attack India followed a row of sequencal defeats before Operation Trident, India's first victory
Portugal
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In Portugal, since 1998, Navy Day is celebrated on May 20, in remembrance of
Vasco da Gama
's first arrival in India.
[12]
Romania
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In Romania, Navy Day takes place on August 15.
Russia
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In
Russia
Navy Day
is a national holiday that normally takes place on the last Sunday of July. It is a legacy of the
Soviet Union
that introduced this holiday in June 1939; the date was chosen in connection with the
Battle of Gangut
.
[7]
Taiwan (ROC)
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In Taiwan, Navy Day is celebrated on September 2. It commemorates the September 2 Naval Battle in 1958 during the
Second Taiwan Strait Crisis
.
Thailand
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In
Thailand
, Royal Thai Navy Day is celebrated on November 20. The day commemorates the day in 1906 that
King Chulalongkorn
opened the
Royal Thai Naval Academy
.
[13]
Turkey
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In Turkey, Navy Day is celebrated on September 27. It commemorates the
Battle of Preveza
on 27 September 1538 near
Preveza
in northwestern
Greece
between an
Ottoman
fleet and that of a
Christian alliance
assembled by
Pope Paul III
in which the
Ottoman fleet
defeated the allies. It is not a
national holiday
.
Turkmenistan
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In Turkmenistan, Navy Day is celebrated on October 9 and celebrates the founding of the
Turkmen Naval Forces
in 1992.
[14]
Ukraine
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In
Ukraine
,
Navy Day
is a professional holiday that is celebrated on the first Sunday of July.
[15]
The commemoration was established in 1996 (then to be celebrated August 1).
[16]
Till 2012 the day was celebrated on August 1.
[17]
From 2012 till 2015 Ukraine had the same date for its Navy Day as
Russia
and the
Soviet Union
(
like Russia
,
Ukraine is a former Soviet republic
); the Soviet Union introduced its Navy Day in June 1939; the date was chosen because of a connection with the day the
Battle of Gangut
took place.
[7]
[18]
On
24 August
2014
Ukrainian President
Petro Poroshenko
declared that Ukraine should not celebrate the holidays of the "military-historical calendar of
Russia
" but "We will honor the defenders of our homeland, not someone else's".
[19]
On 12 June 2015 a Presidential decree by Poroshenko moved Ukraine's Navy Day to the first Sunday of July.
[15]
The Day of
Naval Forces/Marines of Ukraine
is celebrated in Ukraine on the 23rd of May annually.
[20]
On 23 May 1918
Hetman
of the
Ukrainian State
Pavlo Skoropadskyi
ordered the creation of a brigade of naval infantry consisting of three regiments.
[21]
United Kingdom
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The term is also used in Britain to mean an open day at a
dockyard
such as
HMNB Portsmouth
, when the public can visit military ships and see air displays, roughly along the lines of an American
Fleet Week
.
[22]
The
Royal Navy
's equivalent of "Navy Day" is
Trafalgar Day
, which is celebrated on 21 October.
United States
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In the United States, the
Navy League of the United States
organized the first Navy Day in 1922, holding it on October 27 because it was the birthday of 26th President
Theodore Roosevelt
(1858?1919, served 1901?1909), who was a naval enthusiast/promoter of sea power and former assistant
Secretary of the Navy
just before the
Spanish?American War
of 1898. Although meeting with mixed reviews the first year, in 1923 over 50 major cities participated, and the
United States Navy
sent a number of its ships to various port cities for the occasion. The 1945 Navy Day was an especially large celebration, with 33rd President
Harry S. Truman
(1884?1972, served 1945?1953), reviewing the returning home American fleet in
New York Harbor
after victory in
World War II
.
In 1949,
Louis A. Johnson
, (1891?1966, served 1949?1950), second
Secretary
of the newly merged and created
Department of Defense
, directed that the U.S. Navy's participation occur on newly established
Armed Forces Day
for the unified/coordinated uniformed services in May, although as a private civilian organization, the Navy League was not affected by this directive, and continued to organize separate Navy Day celebrations as before. In the 1970s, historical research found that the "birthday" of the earlier
Continental Navy
during the
American Revolutionary War
(1775?1783), was determined to be October 13, 1775, and so
Chief of Naval Operations
Admiral
Elmo R. Zumwalt
worked with the Navy League to define October 13 as the new date of Navy Day. However, Navy Day in the United States is still largely recognized as October 27, while October 13 is marked as the Navy Birthday. The period between these two dates constitute a festive period of celebrations of the birth of the Navy.
Venezuela and Colombia
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July 24, the birthday of Simon Bolivar and the anniversary of the 1823 Patriot victory in the
Battle of Lake Maracaibo
, is marked as Navy Day in both Venezuela and Colombia. Both the
Bolivarian Navy of Venezuela
and the
Colombian Navy
hold major events to mark the holiday.
See also
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References
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