Many Hungarian-American organizations celebrate this day and so do many Hungarians. About the same time there were revolutions, intended to change the social order, in other European countries. I looked at a lot of web sites featuring information on the revolution iin Hungary, but I'm linking to a TIME LINE because I think I'm more impressed with how this progressed and why... First, and this may be something YOU can relate to, was economic recession...
First France,
Then Hungary,
Then the Rhineland,
Then Vienna,
Then Milan,
Then Venice...
(Let's remember that our current notions of a country do not apply to the days when what became countries were independent, shall we say "nation states?"
