6th of June 1944 has gone into history as the Longest Day or D-Day. But when it did it had already been named Swedish Flag Day until it 1983 became the National day.
The Swedish national day, compared to France and U.S. the Swedish national day was not really born from a freedomfight but rather in an atempt to raise nationalism ... well, we do have the election of Gustav Vasa as King of Sweden in 1523 on this day (kind of, at the time we had a different calender so it would be June 16 today), which marked the end of the Kalmar Union and the start of the modern Sweden.
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