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  12th November Is Observed Every Year To Commemorate The First And Last Visit Of The Father Of The Nation Mahatma Gandhi To The Studio Of All India Radio, Delhi In 1947.   Mahatma Gandhi Addressed The Displaced People Who Had Temporarily Settled At Kurukshetra In Haryana After Partition. About The Day Mahatma Gandhi Had Decided To Convey His Message Through Radio, As He Couldn’t Visit The Refugees Of Partition Stationed At Kurukshetra In Haryana. “I See ‘Shakti’, The Miraculous Power Of God,” Gandhiji Had Reportedly Said About The Medium Of Radio As He Entered The Studio. Mahatma Gandhi Began His Speech Around 3:30 Pm. He Began By Saying, “My Brothers And Sisters Who Are Suffering, I Do Not Know If Only You Or Some Other People Are Also Listening To It….” The Words, Which Were Spoken By Gandhi On That Day, Became A Treasure And A Snippet Of The Speech Is Played On November 12 Every Year. Mahatma Gandhi Was Neither The Prime Minister Nor The President, He Didn’t Hold Any Post....

Each year on 14 October, the members of the IEC, ISO and ITU celebrate World Standards Day, which is a means of paying tribute to the collaborative efforts of thousands of experts worldwide who develop the voluntary technical agreements that are published as International Standards.   World Standards Day 2020 is themed “Protecting the planet with standards”. Learn more about the theme in this message from IEC, ISO and ITU.

  World Post Day, also called World Post Office Day , is observed every year on October 9 and marks the anniversary of the Universal Postal Union (UPU), which was set up in 1874 in bern, Switzerland . World Post Day is observed to create awareness about the role and importance of postal services in the lives of people, and how it contributes to the global development. It was mooted by an Indian , Anand Mohan Narula, in 1969 at Universal Postal Union (UPU) Congress in Tokyo, Japan. Since then, World Post Day has been celebrated all over the world. Postal services have come a long way. From letters being sent to people on horseback, hand-delivered to evolving into full-fledged post offices and letterboxes spread across cities and towns to get the messages across. By the late 1800s global postal service started. Universal Postal Union that started in 1874 opened the way for efficient postal services. The Universal Postal Union became an agency of the United Nations in 1948.

  On 2 December 2009 , the 64th session of the United Nations General Assembly declared 29 August the International Day against Nuclear Tests. The resolution calls for increasing awareness and education “about the effects of nuclear weapon test explosions or any other nuclear explosions and the need for their cessation as one of the means of achieving the goal of a nuclear-weapon-free world.” The resolution was initiated by the Republic of Kazakhstan , together with a large number of sponsors and cosponsors with a view to commemorating the closure of the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test site on 29 August 1991. 2010 marked the inaugural commemoration of the International Day against Nuclear Tests. In each subsequent year, the day has been observed by coordinating various activities throughout the world, such as symposia, conferences, exhibits, competitions, publications, lectures, media broadcasts and other initiatives. The international instrument to put an end to all forms of nucle...

  National Sports Day is observed on 29 August 2020. National Sports Day 2020 is celebrated to commemorate the birth anniversary of hockey legend Major Dhyan Chand. National Sports Day also stresses the need to stay fit and healthy. The main objective of National Sports Day is to spread awareness of the importance of sports and daily activities in every individual's life. National Sports Day is also known as the Rashtriya Khel Divas. The day was first inducted into the list of celebratory days in the year 2012 . National Sports Day is the centre of attraction for ardent sports lovers of the country. The main reason behind celebrating National Sports Day lies in championing the spirit of sportsmanship and propagating the message of various sports.  Dhyan Chand Dhyan Chand Singh is popularly known as the Wizard of Indian Hockey. Dhyan was born on 29 August 1905 in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh. He was regarded as a prodigy in the field of hockey. He has secured over 400 interna...

  The General Assembly, designated 22 August as the International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief recognizing the importance of providing victims of acts of violence based on religion or belief and members of their families with appropriate support and assistance in accordance with applicable law. It strongly deplored all acts of violence against persons on the basis of their religion or belief, as well as any such acts directed against their homes, businesses, properties, schools, cultural centres or places of worship, as well as all attacks on and in religious places, sites and shrines that are in violation of international law. A previous resolution establishing the International Day of Remembrance of and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism also recognized that working together to enhance the implementation of existing legal regimes that protect individuals against discrimination and hate crimes, increasing interreligious, inter...

  The General Assembly, in its resolution 2017 , established 21 August as the International Day of Remembrance of and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism in order to honour and support the victims and survivors of terrorism and to promote and protect the full enjoyment of their human rights and fundamental freedoms. By proclaiming an International Day dedicated to victims, the General Assembly reaffirmed that the promotion and the protection of human rights and the rule of law at the national; and international levels are essential for preventing and combating terrorism.

  The date 23 August marks the anniversary of the 1791 insurrection of enslaved men and women in the western part of the island of Santo Domingo, which, on proclaiming its independence reverted to its original Amerindian name: Haiti. The uprising conveyed a universal demand for freedom that transcends all limits of time and space. It speaks to humanity as a whole, without distinction of origin or religion, and continues to resonate now with undiminished force.   By means of International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition, UNESCO aims to recall the crucial importance of the transmission of history in order to shed light on the fight against all forms of oppression and racism today. The 1791 uprising triggered a shockwave that has set the course of peoples’ liberation struggles and of human and civil rights movements for over 200 years. It crystallized the issues, concepts and principles with which it is essential to be familiar in the present fig...

International Senior Citizens Day is celebrated every year on August 21 . It was first announced by the United Nations General Assembly on December 14, 1990. The first holiday was celebrated on October 1, 1991. This day has been started to increase the awareness of the factors affecting the elderly and their issues, including the decline in health with age and the abuse of elderly people. This day is also celebrated for the contributions made by the elderly towards society. History of International Senior Citizen Day is from 1988. It was officially started by former United States President Ronald Reagan . He signed the declaration of 5847 on August 19, 1988, and was presented as National Senior Citizen Day on 21st August. The main purpose of celebrating International Senior Citizen’s Day is to spread awareness about the condition of the aged people and to support them through the process of courtesy. This day is also celebrated for the welfare of the elderly so that they can appre...

  World Mosquito Day, observed annually on 20th August, is a commemoration of a British doctor, Sir Ronald Ross’s discovery in 1897. The female Anopheles mosquitoes were responsible for transmitting the malaria parasite. Sir Ronald Ross declared, shortly after his discovery that female mosquitoes transmit malaria between humans.The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine holds World Mosquito Day celebrations (events, parties, and exhibitions). Most of all, they celebrate every year, since the 1930s. Sir Ronald Ross was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on mosquitoes and malaria. That led to his breakthrough discovery that female mosquitoes were the vectors (carriers of the malarial parasite). This World Mosquito Day should be much more vigorously and prominently celebrated. Especially Government, NGO, and private corporate sponsorships should promote to create awareness about the mosquito menace.

  World Photography day is an annual worldwide celebration of the science, history, art and craft of photography. It traces its origins to 1837 when the first ever photographic process, the ‘ Daguerreotype’ was developed by the Frenchmen Louis Daguerre and Joseph Nicephore Niepce. On January 9, 1839, the French Academy of Sciences announced this process, and later in the same year, the French government purchased the patent for the invention and gave it as a gift, “free to the world.” However, the first durable colour photograph was taken in the year 1861 and there is even speculation about the first digital photograph being invented in 1957, 20 years before the invention of the first digital camera. August 19 marks the day when the people who share a passion for photography come together to raise awareness and share ideas about the field of photography. This unofficial holiday is a celebration of the creativity and nuances of photography that have captivated people for deca...

  World Humanitarian Day (WHD) is observed every year on August 19 as a tribute to help labourer’s and the individuals who lost their lives in humanitarian service. It denotes the day on which Special Representative of the Secretary-General to Iraq, Sérgio Vieira de Mello and 21 of his associates lost their lives in the bombing of the UN headquarters in Baghdad . The main purpose of celebrating World Humanitarian Day is to improve the individuals’ awareness about humanitarian help activities around the world and the significance of worldwide cooperation. World Humanitarian Day was set up by the United Nations General Assembly in 2008 and first celebrated in 2009. The motivation behind World Humanitarian Day is to raise awareness of the plight of civilians around the world who have become caught up in clashes, and furthermore honor and raise support for the humanitarian laborers who hazard, and sometimes lose, their lives to help. Theme   As World Humanitarian Day th...

  Organ donation day is observed on August 13th every year. Organ Donation Day strives to motivate people to donate their healthy and precious organs after death to save lives. Organ Donation Day aims to create awareness about the huge population that dies due to organ failure in India. National Health Portal reported that 500,000 people in India die due to the non-availability of organs. Union Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India launched Organ Donation Day in the year 2010 in New Delhi . Organ donation day was established with the focus to spread information and make people aware of organ donation. The day also attempts to eliminate the fears and the myths people have in their mind about organ donation. On this day, people are educated that Organ donation can be life-changing for many. The practice can give a new life to the ones in need.

  International Youth Day is held each year on the 12th of August and is an initiative that celebrates the qualities of young people and that recognises the challenges that today’s youth can face. International Youth Day began in 2000 and was organised by the United Nations to celebrate the contribution that young people make in education, employment, conflict resolution and social justice to name a few. The theme of International Youth Day 2020, “ Youth Engagement for Global Action ” seeks to highlight the ways in which the engagement of young people at the local, national and global levels is enriching national and multilateral institutions and processes, as well as draw lessons on how their representation and engagement in formal institutional politics can be significantly enhanced.

  On August 12, 2012 , the inaugural World Elephant Day was launched to bring attention to the urgent plight of Asian and African elephants. The elephant is loved, revered and respected by people and cultures around the world, yet we balance on the brink of seeing the last of this magnificent creature. The escalation of poaching, habitat loss, human-elephant conflict and mistreatment in captivity are just some of the threats to both African and Asian elephants. Working towards better protection for wild elephants, improving enforcement policies to prevent the illegal poaching and trade of ivory, conserving elephant habitats, better treatment for captive elephants and, when appropriate, reintroducing captive elephants into natural, protected sanctuaries are the goals that numerous elephant conservation organizations are focusing on around the world.

  This celebration of the animal kingdom’s most beautiful and fearsome creature was founded by Big Cat Rescue, the world’s largest accredited sanctuary dedicated to big cats. August 10th is a day for people to come together from across the world to pay tribute to the mighty lion in as many ways as possible. Though a fun and exciting occasion for all, its foundations are based in a very serious matter: lion numbers have dramatically declined to the point where the species needs to be placed on the endangered list, just like its larger cousin the tiger. World Lion Day is the brainchild of co-founders Dereck and Beverly Joubert , a husband-and-wife team with a passion for big cats. They began the initiative in 2013 , bringing together both National Geographic and the Big Cat Initiative under a single banner to protect the remaining big cats living in the wild. Lions – with the scientific name Panthera leo – are the second-largest cat in the world, just behind the Asian tiger. Th...

  The International Biofuel Day (World Biofuel Day) is observed every year on August 10 to raise awareness about the importance of non-fossil fuels as an alternative to conventional fossil fuels and highlight the various efforts made by Government in the biofuel sector. On this day in 1893, Sir Rudalph Diesel (inventor of the diesel engine) for the first time successfully ran mechanical engine with Peanut Oil. His research experiment had predicted that vegetable oil is going to replace the fossil fuels in the next century to fuel different mechanical engines. The Day is being observed by the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas since 2015 . The theme for 2020 World Biofuel Day in India is ‘Biofuels Towards Atmanirbhar Bharat’

  9 August is celebrated as International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. It is celebrated around the world and marks the date of the inaugural session of the Working Group on Indigenous Populations at the United Nations in 1982. As part of the commemoration, the Indigenous Peoples and Development Branch – Secretariat of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues/DISD/DESA, will be organizing a virtual event, bringing together indigenous peoples’ organizations, UN agencies, Member States, civil society and relevant stakeholders. This year’s theme is COVID-19 and indigenous peoples’ resilience . The virtual commemoration will feature an interactive panel discussion on the innovative ways indigenous peoples continue demonstrating resilience and strength in the face of the pandemic while confronting grave threats to their survival. The aim is to highlight how the preservation and promotion of indigenous peoples’ traditional knowledge and practices can be leveraged more fully ...

  On August 6 , 75 years ago the world changed - a US warplane dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima in Japan killing 1,40,000 people . At 8:15 am, on the ill-fated day, a US B-29 warplane, Enola Gay, dropped a bomb nicknamed "Little Boy" and destroyed the city and its people. Thousands more died later from injuries and radiation-related illnesses. Three days later, on August 9, a second nuclear bomb - 'Fat Man' - was dropped on Nagasaki . Japan surrendered two weeks later, ending World War Two. These are the only two nuclear bombs ever to have been used apart from testing. Thousands usually visit the Peace Park in Hiroshima to pray, sing and offer paper cranes as a symbol of peace but this year fewer people were there as entrance was sharply limited and only survivors and their families could attend the memorial ceremony. As the Peace Bell sounded, the people stood to observe a moment of silence at the exact time the bomb exploded.

National Handloom Day 2020 National Handloom Day is celebrated on August 7 of every year. National Handloom Day 2020 is to increase an awareness about the benefits of handloom to the younger generations. On this National Handloom Day, let support the handloom weavers and encourage everyone to buy the handloom products. Handlooms are important not only for aesthetic and cultural reasons, they are also essential to political and diplomatic relations, as they are symbols of the identity, culture and inclusive growth of a country. More than 50 percent of India's total weaver population resides in the country's eastern and north-eastern region. History Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the first National Handloom Day at the University of Madras' Centenary Hall in Chennai, on 7 August 2015 . August 7 was selected as the National Handloom Day to commemorate the Swadeshi Movement that was launched in Calcutta Town Hall on this day in 1905 to protest against the Bri...