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Important Days

National and international observances, month by month.

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Important national and international days
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Day-by-day reference (Jan–Dec). National days marked with [IN]; rest are international/UN observances.

JANUARY:

  • 1: New Year's Day; Army Medical Corps Day [IN].
  • 6: World Day of War Orphans.
  • 9: Pravasi Bharatiya Divas [IN].
  • 10: World Hindi Day; World Laughter Day.
  • 11: Lal Bahadur Shastri Death Anniv [IN].
  • 12: National Youth Day [IN] (Swami Vivekananda's birth).
  • 15: Indian Army Day [IN].
  • 24: National Girl Child Day [IN].
  • 25: National Voters Day [IN]; National Tourism Day [IN].
  • 26: Republic Day [IN]; International Customs Day.
  • 27: International Day of Commemoration in Memory of Holocaust Victims.
  • 28: Data Protection Day; Lala Lajpat Rai's birth anniversary.
  • 30: Martyrs' Day [IN] (Gandhi assassination); World Leprosy Day.

FEBRUARY:

  • 2: World Wetlands Day.
  • 4: World Cancer Day.
  • 6: International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation.
  • 11: International Day of Women and Girls in Science.
  • 12: World Unani Day; Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan birth.
  • 13: World Radio Day.
  • 14: Valentine's Day.
  • 20: World Day of Social Justice.
  • 21: International Mother Language Day.
  • 24: Central Excise Day [IN].
  • 27: World NGO Day.
  • 28: National Science Day [IN] (Raman effect).

MARCH:

  • 3: World Wildlife Day.
  • 4: National Security Day [IN].
  • 8: International Women's Day.
  • 15: World Consumer Rights Day.
  • 18: Ordnance Factories Day [IN].
  • 20: International Day of Happiness; World Sparrow Day.
  • 21: World Forestry Day; International Day for Elimination of Racial Discrimination; World Down Syndrome Day.
  • 22: World Water Day.
  • 23: World Meteorological Day; Martyrs' Day [IN] (Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, Rajguru).
  • 24: World TB Day.
  • 27: World Theatre Day.

APRIL:

  • 1: Utkal Divas (Odisha Day) [IN]; April Fool's Day; Banking Day (RBI).
  • 2: World Autism Awareness Day.
  • 5: National Maritime Day [IN].
  • 7: World Health Day.
  • 11: National Safe Motherhood Day [IN].
  • 13: Jallianwala Bagh Massacre Anniversary [IN].
  • 17: World Haemophilia Day.
  • 21: National Civil Service Day [IN].
  • 22: Earth Day.
  • 23: World Book and Copyright Day.
  • 24: National Panchayati Raj Day [IN].
  • 25: World Malaria Day.

MAY:

  • 1: Labour Day / May Day (International Workers Day).
  • 3: World Press Freedom Day.
  • 8: World Red Cross Day.
  • 11: National Technology Day [IN] (Pokhran-II, 1998).
  • 12: International Nurses Day.
  • 15: International Day of Families.
  • 17: World Telecommunication Day.
  • 18: International Museum Day.
  • 21: National Anti-Terrorism Day [IN] (Rajiv Gandhi assassination, 1991).
  • 22: International Day for Biological Diversity.
  • 24: Commonwealth Day.
  • 31: World No Tobacco Day.
Important days — June to December
Worked example

JUNE:

  • 1: Global Day of Parents.
  • 3: World Bicycle Day.
  • 4: International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression.
  • 5: World Environment Day.
  • 7: World Food Safety Day.
  • 8: World Oceans Day.
  • 12: World Day Against Child Labour.
  • 14: World Blood Donor Day.
  • 15: World Elder Abuse Awareness Day.
  • 17: World Day to Combat Desertification.
  • 18: International Picnic Day.
  • 20: World Refugee Day.
  • 21: International Day of Yoga.
  • 23: International Olympic Day; UN Public Service Day.
  • 26: International Day Against Drug Abuse.
  • 29: National Statistics Day [IN] (P.C. Mahalanobis birth).

JULY:

  • 1: National Doctors' Day [IN] (Dr. B.C. Roy); Chartered Accountants Day [IN].
  • 11: World Population Day.
  • 17: World Day for International Justice.
  • 18: Nelson Mandela International Day.
  • 26: Kargil Vijay Diwas [IN].
  • 28: World Hepatitis Day.
  • 29: International Tiger Day.

AUGUST:

  • 1: World Breastfeeding Week begins.
  • 6: Hiroshima Day.
  • 8: World Cat Day.
  • 9: International Day of World's Indigenous People; Quit India Movement anniv (1942).
  • 12: International Youth Day.
  • 14: Pakistan Independence Day; Partition Horrors Remembrance Day [IN].
  • 15: Independence Day [IN].
  • 19: World Humanitarian Day; World Photography Day.
  • 20: Sadbhavana Diwas [IN] (Rajiv Gandhi birth).
  • 22: International Day of Remembrance of Victims of Religious Violence.
  • 26: Women's Equality Day.
  • 29: National Sports Day [IN] (Major Dhyan Chand birth).
  • 30: Small Industry Day [IN].

SEPTEMBER:

  • 5: Teachers' Day [IN] (Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan birth); International Day of Charity.
  • 8: International Literacy Day.
  • 14: Hindi Day [IN] (Hindi Diwas).
  • 15: Engineers' Day [IN] (M. Visvesvaraya birth); International Day of Democracy.
  • 16: World Ozone Day.
  • 21: International Day of Peace.
  • 25: Antyodaya Diwas [IN] (Deendayal Upadhyay birth); World Pharmacist Day.
  • 27: World Tourism Day.
  • 29: World Heart Day.

OCTOBER:

  • 1: International Day of Older Persons; International Coffee Day.
  • 2: Gandhi Jayanti / International Day of Non-Violence.
  • 5: World Teachers' Day.
  • 8: Indian Air Force Day [IN].
  • 9: World Postal Day.
  • 10: World Mental Health Day.
  • 11: International Day of the Girl Child.
  • 13: International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction.
  • 14: World Standards Day.
  • 15: World Students Day [IN] (Abdul Kalam birth); World White Cane Day.
  • 16: World Food Day.
  • 17: International Day for Eradication of Poverty.
  • 24: United Nations Day.
  • 31: National Unity Day [IN] (Sardar Patel birth); Rashtriya Ekta Diwas; Halloween.

NOVEMBER:

  • 1: All Saints Day; many state foundation days (Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Kerala, Haryana, Punjab Rajyotsava).
  • 7: National Cancer Awareness Day [IN].
  • 9: Legal Services Day [IN].
  • 11: National Education Day [IN] (Maulana Azad birth).
  • 12: Public Service Broadcasting Day [IN].
  • 14: Children's Day [IN] (Nehru's birth); World Diabetes Day.
  • 16: International Day for Tolerance.
  • 19: Citizenship Day; World Toilet Day; Indira Gandhi birth.
  • 20: Universal Children's Day; Africa Industrialization Day.
  • 21: World Television Day; World Fisheries Day.
  • 25: International Day for Elimination of Violence against Women.
  • 26: Constitution Day [IN] (Samvidhan Divas); Law Day.
  • 30: Flag Day [IN].

DECEMBER:

  • 1: World AIDS Day.
  • 2: National Pollution Control Day [IN]; International Day for the Abolition of Slavery.
  • 3: International Day of Persons with Disabilities; World Conservation Day.
  • 4: Indian Navy Day [IN].
  • 5: International Volunteer Day; World Soil Day.
  • 7: Armed Forces Flag Day [IN].
  • 9: International Anti-Corruption Day.
  • 10: Human Rights Day.
  • 11: International Mountain Day; UNICEF Day.
  • 14: National Energy Conservation Day [IN].
  • 16: Vijay Diwas [IN] (1971 war victory).
  • 18: Minorities Rights Day [IN]; International Migrants Day.
  • 22: National Mathematics Day [IN] (Ramanujan birth).
  • 23: Kisan Diwas / Farmers Day [IN] (Charan Singh birth).
  • 24: National Consumers Day [IN].
  • 25: Christmas; Good Governance Day [IN] (Vajpayee birth).
  • 26: Boxing Day.
  • 28: Birth of Allan Octavian Hume (founder of Congress).

Easy memory hooks:

  • "5-T-9-D-26-R": Teacher's Day (Sep 5), Doctor's Day (July 1), Republic Day (Jan 26).
  • "Two Gandhi events": Oct 2 (birth) and Jan 30 (death = Martyrs' Day).
  • "Nehru-Indira-Rajiv": Children's Day Nov 14 (Nehru), Sadbhavana Aug 20 (Rajiv), May 21 (Rajiv assassination day = Anti-Terrorism).