Taiwanese history, transitional justice, and progress
Date
28 February
Frequency
Annual
First time
1995; 29 years ago (1995)
Related to
February 28 incident
Peace Memorial Day (Chinese: 和平紀念日), also known as 228 Memorial Day, is a public holiday in Taiwan for honoring and mourning the victims and families of the February 28 incident in 1947. Proposals to establish Peace Memorial Day as a holiday began in the early 1990s. It was passed as a national memorial day in 1995 and as an official public holiday in 1997.
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