IMPORTANT DAYS AND DATES

IMPORTANT DAYS AND DATES

January

Jan 1 Army Medical Corps Establishment Day and global family day

Jan 5 Louis braille day
Jan 8 African National Congress Foundation Day
Jan 9 Pravasiya Bharatiya Divas (NRI day)

Jan 10 World Laughter Day (first time)

Jan 10 World Hindi Day
Jan 11 Death anniversary of Lal Bahadur Shastri
Jan 12 National youth Day (Birth Day of Swami Vivekanand)
Jan 15 Army Day
Jan 23 Netaji Subhashchandra Bose’s birth anniversary

Jan 24 national girl child day
Jan 25 International Customs Duty Day, India Tourism Day, National Voters Day
Jan 26 Republic Day and international customs day

Jan 27 international holocaust remembernace day
Jan 28 Birth anniversary of Lala Lajpat Rai
Jan 30 (Martyr’s day) Mahatma Gandhi’s Martyrdom Day; World Leprosy Eradication Day
Jan 30 sarvodaya day

Jan 30 Street Children Day

February

Feb 2 National Day of Srilanka, World Wetlands Day

Feb 4 world cancer day

Feb 4 world day of prayer for consecrated life

Feb 6 International day against female genital mutilation OR International Day of zero Tolerance

Feb 5 Kashmir Day (Organised by Pakistan)

Feb 12 Darwin Day

Feb 13 Sarojini Naidu’s Birth Anniversary and radio day
Feb 14 St. Valentine’s Day

Feb 18-24 national engineer’s week

Feb 20 Mizoram day and aunchal Pradesh day and social justice day

Feb 21 international mother language day
Feb 24 Central Excise Day
Feb 28 National Science Day

March

Mar 3 National Defence Day
Mar 4 National Security Day/ safety day
Mar 8 International Women’s Day
Mar 9 kidney Day
Mar 12 Mauritius Day; Central Industrial Security Force Day
Mar 15 World Consumer Day
Mar 16 National Vaccination Day

Mar 18 ordnance factories day
Mar 19 World Disabled Day

Mar 20 world sparrow day and international happiness day
Mar 21 World Forestry Day and poetry day

Mar 21 International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and World Down Syndrome Day
Mar 22 World Day of Water
Mar 23 World Meterological Day
Mar 24 World TB Day
Mar 26 Bangaladesh Liberation Day

Mar 27 theatre day

Mar 30 Rajasthan day

April

April 1 Orissa Day

April 2 malaria day

April 2 world Autism day

April 4 international day for mine awareness

April 5 National Meritime Day

April 6 International Day of Sport for Development and Peace
April 7 World Health Day

April 10 world homeopathy day

April 11 national safe motherhood day

April 12 International Day of Human Space Flight
April 13 Jallianwallah Bagh Massacre Day (1919)

April 14 Aeronautics and cosmology day
April 14 B.R. Ambedkar Remembrance Day

April 15 himachal day

April 17 world haemophilia day
April 18 World Heritage Day

April 21 civil services day
April 22 World Earth Day
April 23 World Book and Copyright Day and English language day

April 24 women political empowerment day and panchayat day

April 26 world intellectual property day

April 28 World Day for Safety and Health at Work [ILO]

April 30 International Jazz Day

May

May 1 International Labour Day and world law day
May 1 Maharashtra Day

May 2 mother’s day (2^nd Sunday of may)

first Sunday of May world laughter day
May 3 International Energy Day and world press freedom day

May 7 international pthylesemia day and Asthma day
May 8 International Red Cross Day (It is celebraed to commemorate the birth anniversary of the f )

May 8 world Thalassemia Day

May 11-12 World Migratory Bird Day [UNEP]
May 11 National Technology Day

May 12 international Nurse Day
May 15 International Family Day
May 17 World Telecommunication and Information Society Day and hypertension day

May 21 World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development and anti-terrorism day

May 22 International Day for Biological Diversity
May 24 Commonwealth Day

May 25 Africa day and thyroid day

May 29 Everest day

May 30 Hindi journalism day

May 31 World No Tobacco Day

June 

 June 1           Global Day of Parents

 June 1             world milky day (fao)

 June 4          International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression

 June 5          World Environment Day [UNEP]

June 6           International Olympic day

 June 8          World Oceans Day

 June 12        World Day Against Child Labour

 June 14         World Blood Donor Day [WHO]

 June  15        World Elder Abuse Awareness Day

 June  17        World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought

 June  20        World Refugee Day

 June  21        World Music Day and Yoga Day

 June 23         United Nations Public Service Day

 June 23         International Widows' Day

 June 25         Day of the Seafarer [IMO]

 June  26        International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking

 June   26       United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture

July

First Saturday in July  International Day of Cooperatives

July 1 Doctor’s Day
July 4 American Independence Day

July 6 zoonoses day
July 11 World Population Day

July 12 Malala day

July 15 World youth skill Day

July 18 Nelson Mandela International Day
July 26 Kargil Victory Day

July 29 tiger day

August

Aug 1-7 Breast feeding week

Aug 6 Hiroshima Day

Aug 7 National Handloom day
Aug 9 Quit India Movement Day and Nagasaki day and International Day of the World's Indigenous                                          Peoples
Aug 12 International youth Day
Aug 14 Pakistan’s Independence Day
Aug 15 India’s Independence Day
Aug 19 World Photography Day and World Humanitarian Day
Aug 20 Sadbhavana Diwas

Aug 21 Senior citizen day

Aug 23 international Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition [UNESCO
Aug 29 Sports Day (Dhyanchand’s Birth Day)
Aug 30 Small Industry Day

September

Sept 5 Teacher’s Day and International Day of Charity
Sept 7 Forgiveness Day
Sept 8 International Literacy Day

Sept 10 World Suicide Prevention Day [WHO]

Sept 12 United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation
Sept 14 Hindi day
Sept 14 World First Aid Day

Sept 15 engineers day and International Day of Democracy
Sept 16 World Ozone Day
Sept 21 World Alzheimer’s day and International Day of Peace

Sept 26 World Maritime Day [IMO]
Sept 27 World Tourism Day

Sept 28 World Rabies Day [WHO]

Sept 29 deaf day and world heart day

October

Oct 1 International Day for the Elderly
Oct 2 Gandhi Jayanti
Oct 3 World Nature Day
Oct 4 World Animal Day
World Habital Day (First Monday of October)
Oct 5 World Teacher’s Day
Oct 6 World Wildlife Day
Oct 8 Indian Airforce day
Oct 9 World Postal Day
Oct 10 World Mental Health day
Oct 10 National Post Day

Oct 11 International Day of the Girl Child
Oct 12 World Sight day
Oct 13 World Calamity Control Day and International Day for Disaster Reduction
Oct 14 World Standard Day
Oct 15 World White cane day and International Day of Rural Women

Oct 16 World Food Day [FAO] and allergy day
Oct 17 International poverty and International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
Oct 20 National Solidarity Day

Oct 21 world iodine shortage day
Oct 24 United Nations Day and World Development Information Day

Oct 27 World Day for Audiovisual Heritage [UNESCO]
Oct 30 World Thrift Day
Oct 31 National Integration Day

November

Nov 7 Infant Protection day; World Cancer Awareness Day
Nov 9 Legal Service Day
Nov 10 Transport Day World Science Day for Peace and Development[UNESCO]

Nov 12 World Pneumonia Day [WHO]
Nov 14 Children’s day and  World Diabetics day

Nov 16 International Day for Tolerance
Nov 17 Guru Nanak Dev’s Birth Anniverrsary and student day and journalism day

Nov 18 Adults day

Nov 19 World Toilet Day and citizens

Nov 20 Universal Children’s Day

Nov 21 World Philosophy Day [UNESCO] and  World Television Day

Nov 25 International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and non-veg prevention day
Nov 26 national Law Day world environment protection day and constitution day

Nov 29 International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
Nov 30 Flag Day

December

Dec1 World AIDS Day

Dec 2 International Day for the Abolition of Slavery

Dec 3 International Day of Persons with Disabilities
Dec 4 Navy Day and chemical accident prevention day
Dec 7 Armed Force Flag Day and International Civil Aviation Day [ICAO]

Dec 9 International Anti-Corruption Day
Dec 10 Human Rights day
Dec 11 UNICEF Day and International Mountain Day
Dec 14 National Energy Conservation Day

Dec 18 International Migrants Day
Dec 19 Goa’s Liberation day

Dec 20 International Human Solidarity Day
Dec 23 Kisan Divas