Here is in my country, we have some kinds of national celebrations. One of them is Commemorative Days . They are like Kartini's Day, National Awakening Day, Pancasila Day, G30S-PKI, Armed Forces Day, Youth Pledge Day, Hero's Day, Mother's Day, etc.

Egypt , 6 October1973 Celebrates Egypt's victory in the October War aganist Israel, January 25 2011 Revolution Day .Sham El Nessim (Spring festival), Islamic New Year, Eid al-Fitr.Eid al-Adha .

In France, we celebrate the french revolution of 1789 and particularly the storming of the bastille each year with fireworks in each cities and a military parade in Paris. I think everybody enjoy this day because this is a public holiday ^^ and there are festivities.