Heroes' Day in Barbados on April 28. Heroes' Day is a public holiday in Cape Verde on 20 January. It commemorates the 1973 assassination of Amílcar Cabral, who is remembered as a hero for fighting western colonialism and exploitation. The fourth Monday in January is National Heroes' Day in the Cayman Islands; it was proclaimed with the National Heroes Law, providing for the declaration of persons who have rendered exceptional service as national heroes. Numerous Caymanians have been declared national heroes, includes the Hon. James (Jim) Manoah Bodden, Mrs. Sybil I. McLaughlin, Mr. Thomas William Farrington, Mrs. Sybil Joyce Hylton, Mr. Desmond
Heroes' Day 2014 event was held there). Heroes' Day is a public holiday in Mozambique on 3 February. 26 August is Heroes' Day in Namibia. It marks the beginning of the armed struggle during the Namibian War of Independence. National Heroes Day is a national public holiday in the Philippines and is held on the last Monday of every August to mark the anniversary of the Cry of Pugad Lawin, the beginning of the Philippine Revolution by the "Katipunan" and its "Supremo" Andrés Bonifacio in 1896. Heroes' Day in Romania is celebrated on the 40th day from the Orthodox Easter. Not a