Sette Giugno (from Italian for Seventh of June) is a Maltese national holiday celebrated annually on 7 June. It commemorates events which occurred on that day in 1919 when following a series of riots by the Maltese population British troops fired into the crowd killing four.
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Malta
meaning
In remembrance of an uprising against profiteering merchants and the British colonial government seen as the first step towards Maltese independence.
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