It commemorates the 185th anniversary of Rhode Island's Independence when, upon May 4, 1776, the General Assembly, by its action, established the first free republic in the New World.

It commemorates the 1790 Fête de la Fédération, held on the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789 ; the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille fortress-prison was seen as a symbol of the uprising of the modern nation, and of the reconciliation of all the French inside the constitutional monarchy which preceded the First Republic, during the French Revolution.

** Independence Day, commemorates the anniversary of Poland's assumption of independent statehood in 1918 ( Poland )

X: The Unheard Music was released on DVD in 2005, as was the concert DVD X-Live in Los Angeles, which commemorates the 25th anniversary of the band's landmark debut album, Los Angeles.

In 1995, after the Beatles released Lennon's " Free as a Bird " and " Real Love " with demos provided by Ono, McCartney and his family collaborated with her and Sean Lennon to create the song " Hiroshima Sky is Always Blue ", which commemorates the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombing of that Japanese city.

Heaney published “ Requiem for the Croppies ” on the 50th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising, a poem that commemorates the Irish rebels of 1798.

The related online exhibition explores the international origins of the societies of Canada and the United States and commemorates the 400th anniversary of three lasting settlements in Jamestown ( 1607 ), Québec ( 1608 ), and Santa Fe ( 1609 ).

The Israeli Chief Rabbinate also declared a religious holiday on the anniversary, called " Yom Yerushalayim " ( Jerusalem Day ), which also became a national holiday that commemorates the reunification of the city.

In March 2012, Blues Traveler released a double-disk compilation entitled 25 on Hip-O Records ; the album commemorates the band's silver anniversary and includes their hit singles, new covers, and previously unreleased b-side material.

* Kopiec Wyzwolenia ( Mound of Liberation ) commemorates the 250th anniversary of the passage of the Polish Hussars through the city of Piekary Śląskie under John III Sobieski.

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America commemorates the life of Hammarskjöld as a renewer of society on the anniversary of his death, September 18.

The toposcope at the lighthouse commemorates the 180th anniversary of the battle.

The plaque commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of Willard's election to president of the WCTU on October 31, 1879.

Plaza las Americas commemorates its 40th anniversary.

For example, Spain's National Day is held on 12 October, the day celebrated in other countries as Columbus Day or Día de la Raza, and commemorates the anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas.

Released on April 1, 2011, commemorates the 40th anniversary of the Kamen Rider Series, featuring the cast and characters of the original Kamen Rider, Kamen Rider Den-O, Kamen Rider OOO and other characters from past iterations of the franchise.

An anniversary is a day that commemorates or celebrates a past event that occurred on the same day of the year as the initial event.

* May 4 – 11-The Daily Mail Transatlantic Air Race commemorates the 50th anniversary of Alcock and Brown's crossing.

The LP 550-2 Hong Kong Edition commemorates the 20th anniversary of Lamborghini cars being sold in Hong Kong.

* The erection of a monument that commemorates the 30th anniversary of French President Charles de Gaulle's official visit to Quebec City in 1967 ;

He funded the Tait Fountain in Napier, which commemorates Victory in Europe Day and was dedicated on 9 May 1995 on the 50th anniversary of the end of that war.

Although each year also celebrates or commemorates a particular organisation, anniversary, theme or event.

It commemorates the anniversary of Christopher Columbus's first arrival in the Americas, a day also celebrated in other countries.

It commemorates Sheringham's twinning with the German town of Otterndorf.

The Schützenfest commemorates the town's rich German heritage and their German founder, Conrad Ehrhardt, an immigrant from Weiterode Kurhessen, Germany.

The scientific name of this bird commemorates the German naturalist Johann Andreas Naumann.

The binomial commemorates the German astronomer Ludwig Schwarz ( 1822-1894 ).

Its name commemorates Erwin Stresemann, a German ornithologist.

The scientific name commemorates the German zoologist Hermann Schlegel.

The binomial commemorates the German scientist Johann Fischer von Waldheim.

The specific epithet commemorates Engelbert Kaempfer, a German naturalist who lived in Japan from 1690 to 1692 and wrote about the country's natural history.

The holiday, which celebrates German American heritage, commemorates the date in 1683 when 13 German families from Krefeld near the Rhine landed in Philadelphia.

This commemorates, appropriately, his overall command of the extraordinary engineering feat of the explosive mine attacks under German trench positions in June 1917 ( the enterprise started in December 1915 ).

Whilst the radar facilities of the Clee Hills protect aircraft, both hills were once a hazard to aircraft, and a memorial commemorates the 23 Allied and German airmen killed here when their planes crashed into Brown Clee during World War II.

In 2006 the band wrote "' 54, ' 74, ' 90, 2006 ", a fan hymn for the German World Cup squad which became a number one hit in Germany ; the song commemorates West German championships in the 1954, 1974, and 1990 World Cups.

It commemorates the German passenger liner MS St. Louiss 1939 voyage from Europe to North America.

This statue commemorates the Germanic victory over the Romans at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, a symbol of German patriotism, pride, and joy.

The monument commemorates Napoleon's defeat at Leipzig, a crucial step towards the end of hostilities in the War of the Sixth Coalition, which was seen as a victory for the German people, although Germany as we know it did not exist at that time.

The binomial of this bird commemorates the German naturalist and explorer Otto Finsch.

The common name of this species commemorates the German zoologist Heinrich von Kittlitz, who first collected this species.

The name commemorates the German naturalist Theodor Johannes Krüper.