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UN's INTERNATIONAL DECADES OF OBSERVANCE

DECADE:PURPOSE OR OBJECTIVE
1976-1985UN's Decade for Women
1990sInternational Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction.
1994-20043rd Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination.
1995-2004Decade for Human Rights Education.
2001-20101. Culture of peace and non-violence for the children of the world.
2. Eradication of Colonisation.
3. Roll Back Malaria in Developing countries, particularly in Africa.
2003-2012Decade for Literacy.
2005-20141. Education for Sustainable Development.
2. World Indigenous People.
3. Water for Life Decade.
2010-2020UN Decade for Deserts and fight against desertification.
2011-2020UN Decade on "Biodiversity".

UN's INTERNATIONAL YEARS OF OBSERVANCE

YEAR OBJECTIVE/PURPOSE
1882-1883 International Polar Year
1932-1933 International Polar Year
1957-1958 Geo Physical Year.
1959-1960 World Refugee Year
1961 Health & Medical Research
1965 Cooperative Year.
1967 Year of Tourism
1968 Year of Human Rights
1970 Year of Education
1971 Action to combat Racism and Racial Discrimination.
1972 Year of Books
1974 Year of Population.
1975 Year of Women
1978-1979 Year of Anti Apartheid
1979 Year of Children
1981 Year of Disabled Persons.
1982 Year of Mobilization for Sanctions against South Africa.
1983 Year of Communication.
1985 Year of United Nations.
1986 Year of Peace.
1987 Year of Shelter for the Homeless.
1990 Year of Literacy.
1992 Year of Space.
1993 Year of Indigenous Population.
1994 Year of Family.
1995 Year of Tolerance and Year for People's commemoration of the Victims of WWII.
1996 Year of Eradication of Poverty.
1998 Year of Oceans.
1999 Year of Older Persons, Year of Men.
2000 Year of Culture of Peace, Year of Thanks Giving, Year of Mathematics.
2001 Year of Dialogue among civilizations and Volunteers. International year Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance.
2002 Year of Mountains, Year of Ecotourism, Year of Cultural Heritage.
2003 Year of Fresh Water, Year of European Disability Persons.
2004 Year of Struggle against slavery and its abolition., Year of Rice.,
2005 Year of Micro Credit, Year of Sports and Physical Education and Year of Physics.
2006 Year of Deserts and Desertification.
2007-2008 Year of Heliophysics, Year of Polar, Year of Earth.
2007 Year of Dolphins, and Year of Scout.
2008 Year of Languages, Potato, Sanitation and Frog.
2009 Year of Natural Fibres, Astronomy and Gorillas.
2010 Year of Bio - diversity, Communications and Youth.
2011 Year of the People of African Descent, and Year of Veterinary Science.
2012 Year of Cooperatives, Sustainable Energy for All
2013 International year of Water Cooperation, Quinoa.
2014 International Year of Family Farming, Crystallography
2015 International Year of Soils
   
   
   
   
   

MONTHDATENATURE OR CAUSE OF OBSERVANCE:
JANUARY:1Global Family Day, World Day of Peace.
26International Customs Day.
27International Holocause Remembrance Day
28International Day of Data Protection.
29International Day of Leprosy
FEBRUARY:4World Day of Cancer.
6World Day of Zero Tolerance to female Genital Mutilation.
11World Day of the sick.
14Valentine's Day.
20World Day of Social Justice
22World Scouts Day and World Thinking Day.
28International Pashtun Dirgha Day.
MARCH:1World Day for Cats.
8World Day for Women
11World Day for Muslim Culture, Peace, Dialogue and Film
14World Day for Action for Rivers, World 'pi' day.
15World Day for Consumer Rights.
20World Day for Theatre for Children and Young People, World Day for House Sparrows..
21World Down Syndrome Day, World Day for Elimination of Racism, World Poetry Day.
22World Day for Water.
23World Day for Meteorology
24World Day for Achievers, World Day for Tuberculosis.
27World Theatre Day.
APRIL:2World Day for Autism Awareness
4World Day for Awareness of Mines and Safety Measures.
7World Health Day, World Day for Reflection on the Genocide in Rwanda
8World Day for Romani
12World Day for Human Space Flight, World Day for Human Space Flight
14World Day for Cultural Unity, World Day for Dhivehi language
16World Day of Entrepreneurs.
17World Day for Haemophilia
18World Day of Heritage
21World Day of Creativity and Innovation.
22World Day of Laboratory Animals
25World Day of Malaria
26Intellectual Property Day.
28World Day of Workers' Memorial
29World Day of Dance.
MAY:1May Day - International Labour Day.
3International Press Freedom Day
4International Fire Fighters Day
5International Mid Wives Day
6International Day of Awareness of Osteogenesis Imperfecta
12International Nurses Day
15International Family Day
17International Telecommunication Day
18International Museum Day
19International Hepatitis Day
21International Day for Cultural Development
22International Biological Diversity Day
23International Turtle Day
29UN Peace Keepers' Day
31No Tobacco Day
1st TuesdayWorld Asthma Day
2nd SaturdayWorld Fair Day
2nd SundayInternational Mothers' Day.
JUNE:1International Children Day
4International Day of Prevention of Aggression against innocent children
5World Environment Day
12World Day Against Child Labour
14World Blood Donor Day
17World Day of Combating Desertification and Drought
18Autistic Pride Day
20World Refugee Day
21World Music Day
26World Day against Drug Abuse and Trafficking
3rd SundayInternational Fathers' Day
JULY:1World Doctors' Day
11World Population Day
18Mandela Day
30World Friendship Day
1st Saturday....World Day of Cooperatives
Last Friday ...System Administrator Appreciation Day
AUGUST:9World Day of Indigenous People
12World Youth Day
13World Left Handers Day
19World Humanitarian Day
23World Day of Remembrance of Slave Trade & Abolition.
SEPTEMBER:8World Literacy Day
10World Day for Prevention of Suicides
15World Day of Democracy
16World Day of Preservation of Ozone Layer
19World Day of Talk Like a Pirate Day
21World Day of Peace
22World Car Free Day
27World Tourism Day
28World Rabies Day
29World Heart Day
Last Week ...World Maritime Day.
OCTOBER:1World Vegetarian Day,World Older Persons Day
2World Animal Day, World Non-violence Day.
5World Teachers' Day
7World Smile Day
9World Postal Day
10World Mental Health Day
13World Day of Disaster Reduction
14World Standards Day
15World Hand Washing Day
16World Food Day
17World Day of Eradication of Poverty
20World Osteoporosis Day
24United Nations Day
28World Animation Day
1st Monday ... World Habitat Day
2nd Wednesday...Natural Disaster Reduction Day
2nd Thursday.. World Blind/Sight Day
NOVEMBER:1World Vegan Day (veganism means 'man should live without exploiting animals')
6World Day for preventing exploitation of environment in war and Armed Conflicts.
9World Freedom Day
10World Science Day for Peace and Development
12World Pneumonia Day
13World Kindness Day
14World Diabetese Day
16World Day of Tolerance
17World Students' Day
19World Men's Day
19World Toilet Day
20Universal Children Day, World Transgender Remembrance Day
21World Hello Day, World Television Day
25Elimination of violence against women Day
29World Solidarity Day with the Palestinian People.
3rd Sunday.....Remembrance of Road Traffic Victims.
DECEMBER:1World Aids Day
2Abolition of Slavery Day
3Disabled Persons Day
5Economic and Social Development Day
7Civil Aviation Day
9World Day against Corruption
10Human Rights Day
11World Mountains Day
18World Migrants' Day, World Minorities Day.

DAYS TO REMEMBER IN INDIA

Q1.
"Raja Harishchandra" released in Bombay in 1913. appointed (1947) 1 Indian Standard Time introduced (1947), LIC formed/Nationalized (1956), INA formed by Rash Behari Bose in India (1942) Government (1946); Vivekananda Rock Memorial, Kanyakumari inaugurated (1970).
JANUARY:1New Year Day
11Lal Bahadur Shastri Death Day (1966)
12Swami Vivekananda Birtha Day (1863)
14Makara Sankaranthi, Baisakhi, Pongal
15Indian Army Day - In remembrance of Gen.K.M.Kariappa taking over the Indian Army from British C in C Sir Francis Butcher.
23Nethaji Subhas Chandra Bose Birth Day (1897)
25Himachal Pradesh statehood (1971)
26Republic Day (1950)
28Lala Lajpat Rai Birth Day (1865)
30Mahatma Gandhi's Death Day (1948)
FEBRUARY:11Dr.Fakuruddin Ali Ahmed (President) Death Day (1977)
21Mother Language Day (international)
24Central Excise Day
27Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Death Day (1958)
28National Science Day - The day in 1928, Sir C V Raman discovered the "Raman Effect"
29Leap Year - Former PM Morarji Desai's Birth Day (1896)
MARCH:8Women's Day (International)
15Consumer Rights Day (International)
18Rowlatt Act Passed in 1919
1925 Years Peace Treaty with Bangladesh - 1972
21Poetry, Disabled, Forestry Day (International)
22Water Day (international), Cripps Mission arrival in 1942
23Meteorological Day (international), Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Raj Guru were hanged - 1931
24First non-Congress government formed by Morarji Desai - 1977, Tuberculosis Day ( international)
31Last Tram Car ran in Bombay ... 1964
APRIL:1Income Tax (1869), Postal Savings (1882), Delhi Capital (1912), Indian Air Force (1933), Reserve Bank of India(1935), Orissa Separate State (1936), Decimal Coinage - Naya Paise(1957), Metric Weights (1962) - all were introduced.
2India's first computer commissioned (1966)
4Raakesh Sharma in Space (1984)
5Gandhi Reached Dandi (1930), Bharat Scouts and Guides founded (1949), First Communist Government in Kerala - 1957.
7Health Day - international.
12Civil Aviation Day -(international)
13Jalian Wala Bagh Massacre (1919)
14Dr. Ambedkar's Birth Day (1891)
18Heritage Day (international)
23Book Day. (international)
MAY:1May Day (international), Ramakrishna Mission Founded (1897), Bombay State Divided into Gujarat & Maharashtra (1960)
3Press Freedom Day (international), First Indian feature film
4India's first postage stamp issued (1854)
5Tipu Sultan died (1799)
7Rabindranath Tagore's Birth Day (1861), First Tram Car ran in Bombay (1907)
9First Horse Drawn Tram Car - Bombay (1874).
10Sepoy Mutiny Out break (Meerut) 1857, First Day/night Cricket Match - Bombay 1981.
11Sepoy Mutiny out break Delhi - 1857
13National Solidarity Day, Red Fort Completed by Shah Jahan (1648), Dr. Fakruddin Ali Ahmed Birth Day (1905), Dr.S.Radhakrishnan became the II President (1962), Dr. Zakir Hussain became III President (1967)
15Family Day ( international)
16 Sikkim became a state (1975)
17 Telecommunication Day (international), International Telegraphic Union formed (1965), Vasco da Gama anchored near Calicut (1498), Bahadur Shah Zafar became emperor (1857)
18India's first Nuclear Text - Pokhran (1974)
21Rajiv Gandhi's Death Day (1991), Anti Terrorism Day, Cultural Day (international), Sushmita Sen - Miss Universe - (1991)
22Biological Diversity Day (international), "Agni" successfully test fired (1989).
27Nehruji's Death Day (1964)
31No Tobacco Day (international)
JUNE:3Partition of India accepted by Indian Leaders (1947), 5 day a week working system - Central Government Offices (1985)
5Environment Day (International), "Operation Blue Star" Golden Temple,Amritsar (1984)
6Shivaji Crowned Chatrapati (1674)
7National Film Festival with Lotus Symbol Commissioned in 1975, India's second satellite Bhaskara I launched from USSR - 1979.
8All India Radio came into existence (1936)
20Refugee Day (international)
26Anti Drug Abuse and Trafficking Day (international)
27Diabetes Day (international).
JULY:1Post Card introduced (1879), Imperial Bank became State Bank (1955), Doctors' Day (international), Vividh Bharati Bombay started (1957)
2Middle Day of the Year, Kalpakkam Atomic Power Station Commission (1983), Shimla Agreement - Smt.Indira Gandhi - Z.A.Bhutto signed -1972.
4Swami Vivekananda Death Day, Siliguri Darjeeling Toy Train introduced - 1881.
5India's Independence Act introduced in British Parliament (1947)
6Gandhiji was first addressed as "father of the nation" by Nethaji
(1944)
7India's first public Sector Undertaking Damodar Valley Corporation Started (1948);
8Montague Chelmsford Report on Indian Constitution published (1858)
9India's first 5 year Plan Published (1951), Lion Chosen as National
Symbol (1969)
11Population Day (International)
13Civil Honours withdrawn by Janata Party Government in 1977.
18India's Independence Act received Royal Assent (1947)
22National Flag Adoption Day (1947)
AUGUST:6Madras High Court Commissioned (1862), India's first tricolor flag hoised in Calcutta by S.N.Bannerji (1906), India's first test tube baby born (1986)
7Congress announced boycott of foreign goods (1905),Rabindranath Tagore's Death Day (1941).
8Quit India Resolution passed by Congress at Bombay (1942).
11Freedom Fighter Khudiram Bose Hanged (1908)
12Youth Day (international)
14India - Pakistan Partititoned (1947)
15India's Independence Day, Vir Chakra Awards introduced (1972), Color Television transmission introduced (1982), Sri Aurobindo Ghosh Birth Day (1872)
16Direct Action Day observed by Muslim League, Hindu - Muslim clashes in Calcutta - 1946.
17First British Troop left India (1947)
18Plane Crash killing NSC Bose (1945), IIT, Kharagpur Commissioned (1951)
20Rajiv Gandhi's Birth Day (1944) - Sadhbhavna Day, Mopla Uprising started in Kerala (1921), Charan Singh resigned as PM after 23 days in office (1979)
22 Gandhiji made a bonfire of foreign clothes (1921)
23 Vallabhai Patel became the first Deputy PM (1947)
26Draft Committee for Indian Constitution led by Dr. Ambedkar
28 Insurance Nationalized (1972)
31 States Reorganization bill assented by President (1956)
SEPTEMBER:
2Nehru became the first PM of undivided India in the Interim
5Dr.S.Radhkrishnan Birth Day (1888) - Teachers Day.
8Literacy Day (International), China's incursion into Indian Territory (1962).
16Ozone Day (International)
21Peace Day (International)
27Tourism Day (International).
OCTOBER:1Older Persons Day (international)
2Gandhiji's Birth Day (1869), Lal Bahadur Shastri's Birth Day (1904), K.Kamaraj Death Day. (1975)
8Indian Air Force Day (date in 1932 Indian Air Force Act came into effect (1932)
9Postal Day (international)
14Standards Day ( International)
16Food Day (international)
17Poverty Eradication Day ( International)
20Solidarity Day
24UN Day; Information Development Day (International)
31National Rededication Day; Smt.Indira Gandhi Death Day (1984)
NOVEMBER:11Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Birth Day (1888)
17Lala Lajpatrai Death Day (1928)
19Smt.Indira Gandhi's birth Day (1917)
20Children's Day (International)
22National Cadet Corps Day
25Elimination of Violence against Women Day (International)
DECEMBER:1World Aids Day (International)
3Disabled Paersons Day (International)
6Dr. Ambedkar's Death Day ( 1956)
7Armed Forces Flag Day
10Human Rights Day (International)
25Christmas
26Tsunami - Indian Southern Coastal Districts - (2004)