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Freedom Day, or Jum il-Ħelsien in Maltese, is a Maltese national holiday celebrated annually on 31 March. This is the anniversary of the withdrawal of British troops and the Royal Navy from Malta in 1979. The Government had been wanting to re-negotiate the lease agreement with the United Kingdom throughout the 1970s. Following protracted and sometimes tense talks, a new agreement was signed whereby the lease was extended till the end of March 1979 at a vastly increased rent. On 31 March 1979 the last British Forces left Malta. For the first time in a millennium, Malta was no longer a military base of a foreign power and it became independent de facto as well as de jure. The main events of the activities commemorating this date take place at the Freedom Day Monument at Birgu and at the War Memorial in Floriana. In the afternoon the Grand Harbour hosts a competitive regatta.