Today is Freedom Day in Portugal. It celebrates the 1974 Revolution that ended the dictatorship and started a democracy. It also commemorates the first free elections that took place a year later on April 25th 1975.
The peaceful uprising was nicknamed the “Carnation Revolution” after the flowers protesters placed in the military’s guns and tanks in a rare example of a military coup staged to install democracy.
The 1974 revolt by a group of idealist young military captains quickly turned into a popular uprising when the troops were joined by jubilant crowds.
The revolution began on April 25th 1974, in Lisbon. Meeting little resistance from loyalist forces they took less than 24 hours to topple the dictatorship that had ruled Portugal with an iron fist since 1926 under Antonio de Oliveira Salazar and from 1968 under Marcelo Caetano. The events of April 25th transformed the Portuguese regime from an authoritarian dictatorship to a democracy.
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Today is the anniversary of the premiere performance, in 1926 of Turandot by Giacomo Puccini two years after his death. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suj-2sbSFKs
