Day of Mourning and Remembrance in Panama
Day of Mourning and Remembrance in Panama is held on December 20. This event in the second decade of the month December is annual. 
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It is very important to maintain this positive criterion that December 20 be officially decreed as a day of national mourning like January 9, when young Panamanians died fighting with a true nationalist flame.
On that day, an order issued at the Armed Forces Command at Fort Brag, North Carolina, was ready to carry out in the early hours of December 20, 1989, the most sophisticated U.S. invasion that any nation had ever experienced.
The result was a large number of wounded and dead. According to the Panamanian Institute of Legal Medicine, 255 deaths and 93 missing persons were recorded. Of the missing, 39 were military personnel and the rest were civilians.
The invasion was nothing more than a pretext as always provided by old canal agreements such as those of 1846 and 1903, which justified their intervention.
Similar holidays and events, festivals and interesting facts
Loyalty Day in Panama on December 16
Three Kings Cavalcade on January 6
Martyrs' Day in Panama on January 9 (is a Panamanian day of national mourning which commemorates the January 9, 1964 anti-American riots over sovereignty of the Panama Canal Zone);
Engineer's Day in Panama on January 26
Photographer and Cameraman's Day in Panama on February 6
Constitution Day in Panama on March 1
Carnival in Panama on March 3 (The five-day holiday begins on Monday before Ash Wednesday)