The Day of National Dignity was a holiday that was celebrated in Peru every October 9 in commemoration of the capture of La Brea and Pariñas by the so-called Revolutionary Government of the Armed Forces, a military junta that controlled the country from 1968 to 1980.

[1] On October 9, 1968, the government of General Juan Velasco Alvarado emerged six days earlier by a coup against President Fernando Belaúnde, decided to solve the controversy surrounding the La Brea and Pariñas complex by nationalising the oil industry.

[3] The government expropriated the assets of the US company and expelled it from the country, although the IPC was later compensated.

[4] The seizure of the facilities was officially announced the same day by a recorded message to the nation.

The celebration was finally withdrawn from the national civic calendar when democracy was restored with the 1980 elections.