2014 Event Peshmerga fighters have occupied part of Sinjar Mountain, retaking the territory from ISIS militants; around 1,500 Yazidi families, trapped on the mountain, have been liberated 1991 Event Banks reopen in liberated Kuwait 1991 Event 6 week Gulf War ends after Iraqi troops retreated and Kuwait is liberated 1950 Event Reverend Sun Young Moon liberated from Hung Nam prison 1948 Event Beersheba liberated by Israeli army 1945 Event Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald liberated by U.S. 1945 Event Hong Kong liberated from Japan 1945 Event South Korea liberated from Japanese rule 1945 Event Czechoslovakia liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day) 1945 Event Mauthausen Concentration Camp liberated 1945 Event Mauthausen Concentration camp liberated 1945 Event Netherlands and Denmark liberated from Nazi control 1945 Event Premier Gerbrandy on Radio Orange tells Dutch they are liberated 1945 Event Concentration camp Flossenburg liberated 1945 Event Concentration Camp at Sachsenhausen liberated 1945 Event Hungary liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day) 1945 Event U.S. forces liberated the Nazi death camp Ohrdruf in Germany 1944 Event Albania liberated from Nazi control (National Day) 1944 Event Kerkrade (Netherlands) liberated 1944 Event Helmond and Oss Netherlands liberated 1944 Event Bulgaria liberated from Nazi control (National Day) 1944 Event Paris liberated from Nazi occupation, Freedom Tuesday 1944 Event Romania liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day) 1944 Event Vilnius, Lithuania, liberated 1944 Event Cherbourg, France liberated by Allies 1944 Event Leningrad liberated from Germany in 880 days with 600,000 killed 1927 Birthday Midge Decter, born in St. Paul, Minnesota, anti woman's lib, Liberated Woman... 1899 Event Cuba liberated from Spain by U.S., known as National Day, U.S. occupies until 1902 1878 Event Bulgaria liberated from Turkey (Peace of San Stefano) 1778 Birthday Jose Francisco de San Martin, liberated Argentina, Chile and Peru 1660 Birthday Peter Rabus, poet/translator, Liberated Britanje
