Editing German Unity Day (section)

===Federal Republic of Germany===
From 1954 to 1990, 17 June was an official holiday in the Federal Republic of Germany to commemorate the [[East German uprising of 1953]], even with the name "German Unity Day".<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.17juni53.de/chronik/5307/juli53_gesetz.jpg |title=www.17juli1953.de – Law paragraph establishing July 3rd, 1953, as the "German Unity Day" in West Germany. |access-date=3 October 2014 |archive-date=17 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160417090939/http://www.17juni53.de/chronik/5307/juli53_gesetz.jpg |url-status=live }}</ref> Since 1963, it was proclaimed by the President of the Federal Republic as "National Day of Memorial of the German People". However, by the mid-1960s as hope faded that the two Germanys would ever be re-united, this date became more of a holiday and day of recreation than a day to consider national unity.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Gunkel|first1=Christoph|title=Der 17. Juni: Tag der deutschen Zwietracht - SPIEGEL ONLINE - einestages|url=http://www.spiegel.de/einestages/tag-der-deutschen-einheit-nationalfeiertag-17-juni-a-1055106.html|work=Spiegel|date=3 October 2015|archive-date=25 May 2017|access-date=14 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170525164648/http://www.spiegel.de/einestages/tag-der-deutschen-einheit-nationalfeiertag-17-juni-a-1055106.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
In the year 1990, the "German Unity Day" was celebrated twice, on this date and on 3 October.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160304055124/http://www.bmi.bund.de/cae/servlet/contentblob/297462/publicationFile/8836/proklamation1953.pdf Federal Ministry of the Interior – Presidential proclamation about July 3rd.]</ref>