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Yorktown Day
Yorktown Day is a holiday celebrated in Yorktown, Virginia annually on October 19. The holiday celebrates the surrender of the British forces on that date in 1781, ending the Battle of Yorktown and bringing about the end of the American Revolutionary War.
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