It occurred to me, on the eve of this 232nd anniversary of the founding of our republic, that most of the independence days of which I knew were in the summer. As this group consisted of exactly 3 countries (USA, Canada, and France), I decided to make a survey that could more easily fool a listener into thinking it was authoritative. My extensive research took me to the first result in Google from searching for “national independence days”, some obscure children's site named Kids Turn Central. Dot com!

Turns out your most popular month for uprisings is September. Back to school, time to kill some aristocrats. June is right behind, with a higher percentage of nations in temperate climates. I guess for us, July is just too hot to take the yoke of oppression any more.

The listing of independence days or national holidays seems to be basically accurate, based on spot-checking against the CIA World Factbook. (Though you never know with those spooks. They could be sowing disinformation about Burkina Faso’s national holiday.) It’s probably not exhaustive, since it comprises only 120 nations, but I’ll assume it’s representative.

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