List of Important Days & Dates 2024: National/International Days
Important National & International Dates 2024
For all Competitive Exams
1st January: English New Year, Army Medical Corps Establishment Day,
Global family day, World Peace Day
4th January: World Braille Day
6th January: World War Orphans Day
8th January: African National Congress Foundation Day
9th January: Pravasi Bharatiya Divas NRI Day
10th January: World Laughter Day, World Hindi Day
11th January: Death anniversary of Lal Bahadur Shastri
12th January: National Youth Day (Birth Day of Swami Vivekanand)
15th January: Army Day (Field Marshall K.M. Cariappa took over the
command of Army on this day in 1949 from the British), Pongal,
Makar Sankranti
23rd January: Netaji Subhash Chandra bose birthday
24th January: National Girl Child day of India
25th January: India Tourism Day,
National Voters Day
26th January: Republic Day of India and International Customs day
27th January: International Holocaust Day (The largest Nazi death
camp, Auschwitz- Birkenau was liberated by Soviet troops on Jan
27, 1945.), International Day of Commemoration
28th January: Birth Anniversary of Lala Lajpat Rai
28th January: Data protection day
30th January: Mahatma Gandhi’s Martyrdom Day (Martyr’s day)
World Leprosy Eradication Day1st February: Indian Coast Guard Day
2nd February: World Wetlands Day
4th February: World Cancer Day
4th February: National Day of Sri Lanka
6th February: International day against female genital mutilation
7th February: International Development Week
11th February: World Day of the Sick
2nd Sunday of February: World Marriage Day
12th February: Darwin Day
12th February: Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday
13th February: Sarojini Naidu’s Birth Anniversary
14th February: Saint Valentine’s Day
18th February: Taj Mahotsav
20th February: World Day of Social Justice
21st February: International Mother Language Day
22nd February: World Scout Day
23rd February: World peace and understanding day
24th February: Central Excise Day
27 February: World Sustainable Energy Day
28 February: National Science Day1st March: Zero Discrimination Day
World Civil Defence Day
3rd March: World Wildlife Day
World Hearing Day
4th March: National Safety Day
8 March: International Women’s Day
10 March: CISF Raising Day
13 March: No Smoking Day (Second Wednesday of March)
14 March: Pi Day
International Day of Action for Rivers
15 March: World Consumer Rights Day
16 March: National Vaccination Day
18 March: Ordnance Factories Day (India)
20 March: International Day of Happiness
World Sparrow Day
21 March: World Forestry Day
World Down syndrome Day
World Poetry Day
22 March: World Water Day
23rd March: World Meteorological Day
24 March: World Tuberculosis (TB) Day
27 March: World Theatre Day1 April: Orissa Day, Prevention of Blindness week
2 April: World Autism Awareness Day
4 April: International Day for Mine Awareness
5 April: National Maritime Day
7 April: World Health Day
10 April: World Homeopathy Day
11 April: National Safe Motherhood Day, National Pet Day
13 April: Jallianwala Bagh Massacre Day (1919)
17 April: World Haemophilia Day
18 April: World Heritage Day
21 April: National Civil Service Day, Secretaries’s Day
22 April: World Earth Day
23 April: World Book and Copyright Day
24 April: National Panchayati Day
25 April: World Malaria Day
26 April: World Intellectual Property Day
28 April: World Day for Safety and Health at Work, World Veterinary Day1-May: International Labour Day
3-May: Press Freedom Day
4-May: Coal miner’s day
May (2nd Sunday) Mother’s Day
8-May: World Red Cross Day
9-May: Victory day
11-May: National Technology Day
12-May: International Nurses day
14-May: World Migratory day
15-May: International Day of the Family
17-May: World Telecommunication Day (Information Society Day)
21-May: Anti-terrorism day
24-May: Commonwealth Day
31-May: Anti-Tobacco Day1 June: World Milk Day and Global Parents Day
2 June: International Sex Workers Day and Telangana Formation Day
3 June: World Bicycle Day
4 June: International Day of Innocent and Children Victims of Aggression
5 June: World Environment Day
7 June: World Food Safety Day and International level crossing awareness day
8 June: World Oceans Day and World Brain Tumour Day
12 June: World Day Against Child Labour
14 June: World Blood Donor Day
15 June: Global Wind Day and World Elder Abuse Awareness Day
17 June: World Day to Combat and Desertification and Drought
18 June: Autistic Pride Day
19 June: World Fathers’ Day (Every 3rd Sunday of June), World Sickle Cell Awareness Day and World Sauntering Day
20 June: World Refugee Day
21 June: World Hydrography Day, International Yoga Day and World Music day
June (3rd Sunday): Father’s Day
23 June: International Olympic Day, United Nations Public Service Day and International Widow’s Day
26 June: International Day against and Drug Abuse & Illicit Trafficking
27 June: World Diabetes Day
30 June: World Asteroid Day1-July: National Doctor’s Day, National Postal Worker Day, Chartered Accountants Day
2-July: World UFO Day, World Sports Journalists Day
July (1st Saturday) International Day of Cooperatives
4-July: American Independence day
6-July: World Zoonoses Day
11-July: World Population Day
12-July: World Malala day
17-July: World Day for International Justice
18-July: Nelson Mandela International Day
28-July: World Nature conservation day
29-July: International Tiger Day2-August: International Friendship Day
3-August: Independence day of Niger
5-August: Independence day of upper Volta
6-August: Hiroshima Day
9-August: International day of World’s indigenous people
9-August: Quit India Day and Nagasaki Day
12-August: International Youth day
14-August: Independence Day of Pakistan
15-August: Independence Day of India
19-August: World Photography day
20-August: Sadbhavna Diwas
23-August: International Day for the remembrance of
the slave trade and its abolition
29-August: National Sports Day
30-August: Small Industry Day5-September: Teachers’ Day (Dr. Radhakrishnan’s birthday), Forgiveness day
8-September: World Literacy Day
14-September: Hindi day, World First Air Day
15-September: Engineer’s day in India
16-September: World Ozone Day
21-September: Alzheimer’s Day, International day of peace
25-September: Social justice day
26-September: Day of the Deaf
27-September: World Tourism Day1-October: International day of the Older person
2-October: Mahatma Gandhi birthday,
International day of non-violence
3-October: World Habitat Day, World nature day
4-October: World Animal Welfare Day
5-October: World Teacher’s day
6-October: World Wildlife day, World Food Security day
8-October: Indian Air Force Day
9-October: World Post Office day
10-October: National Post Day
11-October: International girl child day
12-October: World Arthritis day
13-October: UN International Day for National disaster reduction
14-October: World Standards Day
15-October: World White Cane Day (guiding the Blind)
16-October: World Food Day
17-October: International day for the eradication of poverty
20-October: World statistics day
24-October: UN Day, World development information Day
30-October: World Thrift Day
31-October: Rastriya Ekta Diwas (in memory of Sardar Patel),
National Integration Day (In memory of Indira Gandhi)1-November: World vegan day
5-November: World Radiography day
7-November: Infant Protection day
World Cancer Awareness Day
9-November: World services day
10-November: Transport Day
14-November: Children’s Day in India
Jawaharlal Nehru birthday
16-November: International day for Endurance
17-November: World Student day
National Journalism day
18-November: World Adult day
19-November: World Citizen day
20-November: Africa Industrialization Day
Universal children day
21-November: World Television day
World Fisheries day
25-November: World Non-veg day
26-November: Law day
29-November: International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People
30-November: Flag day1-December: World Aids Day
2-December: World Computer literacy day
International day of abolition of slavery
3-December: International Day of People with disabilities
World conservation day
4-December: Navy Day
5-December: International volunteer day for economic and social development
7-December: Armed Forces Flag Day
International civil aviation day
9-December: The International day against corruption
10-December: Human Right Day
11-December: International Mountain day
14-December: International Energy day
18-December: International Migrants day
19-December: Goa’s liberation day
20-December: International Human solidarity
23-December: Kisan Divas (Farmer’s Day)
29-December: International Bio-diversity day
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