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Worldwide Holidays for September 2008

1st September

Evacuation Day: Libya.

Labor Day: Canada, United States.

2nd September

Independence Day: Vietnam.

3rd September

Independence Day: Qatar.

Independence Movement Day: Tunisia.

Saint Matinus' Day: San Marino.

5th September

Ganesh Chaturthi: Mauritius.

6th September

Bonaire Day: Bonaire.

Defence Day: Pakistan.

Independence Day: Swaziland.

7th September

Independence Day: Brazil.

Victory Day: Mozambique.

8th September

National Day: Andorra.

Our Lady of Victories - National Holiday in Malta.

9th September

Days of Liberation: Bulgaria.

Independence Day: North Korea, Tajikistan.

10th September

Days of Liberation: Bulgaria.

St. George's Caye Day: Belize.

11th September

Quaid-e-Azam Death Anniversary: Pakistan.

12th September

Revolution Day: Ethiopia.

14th September

San Jacinto Day: Guatemala, Nicaragua.

15th September

Independence Day: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua.

Maria Himmelfahrt: Austria, Germany, Switzerland.

16th September

Independence Day: Mexico, New Guinea.

17th September

Heroes' Day: Angola.

Independence Day: Marshall Islands.

18th September

Independence Day: Chile.

Victory of Uprona: Burundi.

19th September

Army Day: Chile.

Independence Day: Saint Kitts.

21st September

Independence Day: Malta.
Malta attained Independence from the United Kingdom in 1964.

Independence Day: Belize.

22nd September

Independence Day: Mali.

23rd September

Independence Day: Armenia.

National Day: Saudi Arabia.

24th September

Mercedes Day: Dominican Republic.

Republic Day: Guinea.

Republic Day: Trinidad & Tobago.

25th September

Liberation Day: Mozambique.

Assembly Day: Rwanda.

26th September

Mid-Autumn Day: China, Hong Kong, Taiwan.

27th September

Mid-Autumn Day: Macao.

28th September

Confucius' Birthday: Taiwan.

National Day: Yemen.

29th September

Boqueron Battle Day: Paraguay.

Constitution Day: Brunei.

30th September

Independence Day: Botswana

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