Koninkrijksdag or Kingdom Day
Koninkrijksdag or Kingdom Day is held on December 16. Aruba, Netherlands. This event in the second decade of the month December is annual. 
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The day commemorates the 1954 signing of the Statute for the Kingdom of the Netherlands by Queen Juliana in the Knights' Hall.
The Kingdom of the Netherlands is made up of four countries: the Netherlands, Aruba, Curaçao and St Maarten. Koninkrijksdag is the commemoration of the signing of the Charter for the Kingdom of the Netherlands on 15 December 1954 in Aruba, Curaçao, the Netherlands, and Sint Maarten. When 15 December falls on a Sunday, the commemoration takes place on Monday 16 December. Kingdom Day is, unlike Koningsdag (English: King's Day), not an official national holiday, but government buildings are instructed to fly the flag of the Netherlands.
On this day, New Dutch citizens obtain their citizenship. A flag instruction applies on December 15: the flag goes out on all main buildings of the central government.
Similar holidays and events, festivals and interesting facts
St Nicholas Day on December 6 (International. The St. Nicholas/Santa Claus leaves little presents in children's shoesl);
Second day of Christmas on December 26 (Western Christianity. Public holiday in the Netherlands, Poland, Norway);
Boxing Day on December 26 (Belgium, Fiji, The Bahamas, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Samoa...);
Carnaval in Aruba on January 1 (Beginning after the new year with the Torch Parade and ending at midnight on the eve of Ash Wednesday);
National Tulip Day in Netherlands on January 18 (The third Saturday of January);
Betico Croes' Birthday in Aruba on January 25
World Compliment Day on March 1 (appeared after many successful editions of “National Compliment Day” in the Netherlands)