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IMPORTANT DAYS
JANUARY
❖ January 1 Global Family Day (UN), World Peace Day
❖ January 4 World Braille Day - International
❖ January 6 World Day - War Orphans
❖ January 9 NRI Day
❖ January 10 World Laughter Day
❖ January 11 National Human Trafficking Awareness Day
❖ January 12 National youth day (India)
❖ January 15 Army Day (India)
❖ January 20 World Religion Day
❖ January 24 National Girl child day (In India)
❖ January 25 Tourism Day (India), National Voters Day
❖ January 26 Republic Day (India), International Customs Day
❖ January 27 Family Literacy Day(ABC Life Literacy Canada),
International Holocaust Remembrance Day (Recognized by the UN)
❖ January 28 Data Protection Day(recognized by the Council of Europe), Potato Day
❖ January 30 Martyr's Day (India), Sarvodaya Day, World Leprosy Eradication Day
❖ January 31 Street Children's Day
❖ January 3rd week National Non-Smoking Week(Canada)
❖ January 3rd wednesday Weed less Wednesday(Canada)
❖ January 2nd 8th National Folic Acid Awareness Week
February
❖ February 2 World Wetlands Day, Rheumatoid Arthritis Awareness Day
❖ February 3 World Cancer Awareness Day
❖ February 4 World Cancer Day
❖ February 5 Kashmir Day (Organized by Pakistan)
❖ February 6 International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation
❖ February 7 Rose Day
❖ February 8 Safer Internet Day (International)
❖ February 9 Chocolate day
❖ February 11 World Day of the Sick, Promise Day
❖ February 12 Sexual and Reproductive Health Awareness Day, International Day
Of Women's Health, Darwin Day
❖ February 13 World Radio Day (UNESCO)
❖ February 14 National Donor Day, Valentine Day, Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Day
Canada - Children's Heart Society
❖ February 15 International Childhood Cancer Day - International - Childhood Cancer
Foundation, National Flag of Canada Day - Heritage Canada
❖ February 16 Family Day
❖ February 17 Heritage Day - Heritage Canada
❖ February 20 World Day of Social Justice (Recognized by the UN)
❖ February 21 International Mother Language Day (Recognized by the UN)
❖ February 22 International Scouts Day, World Thinking Day, Work Your Proper Hours Day
❖ February 23 World Peaces and Understanding Day
❖ February 24 Central Excise Day
❖ February 28 National Science Day (India), International Pashtun Jirga Day
❖ February 1st week Eating Disorder Awareness Week, International Development Week,
National Therapeutic Recreation Week, White Cane Week
❖ February 2nd week World Orphan Week
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❖ February 3rd week Scout-Guide Week, Brotherhood/Sisterhood Week

❖ February 4th week Freedom to Read Week
❖ February Last wednesday Pink Shirt Day (Anti-bullying)
❖ February 2nd Sunday World marriage Day
March
❖ March 1 Self-Injury Awareness Day, Pig day
❖ March 2 Texas Independence Day
❖ March 3 National Defence Day (India)
❖ March 4 National Safety Day (India), World Day of the Fight Against Sexual
Exploitation
❖ March 8 International Women's Day (Recognized by the UN), International Literacy
Day
❖ March 11 World Day of Muslim Culture, Peace, Dialogue and Film
❖ March 12 World Glaucoma Day
❖ March 13 World Kidney Day, World Rotaract Day, No Smoking Day
❖ March 14 International Day of Action for Rivers, Pi Day
❖ March 15 World Consumer Rights Day, World Disabled Day
❖ March 16 National Vaccination Day
❖ March 18 Ordinance Factories Day (India)
❖ March 20 World Day of Happiness, International Day of the Francophonie, World Day
of Theatre for Children and Young People, World House Sparrow Day
❖ March 21 World Down Syndrome Day, International Day for the Elimination of Racial
Discrimination - UN, World Poetry Day (Recognized by the UNESCO), World Forestry Day,
World Sleep Day, World Puppetry Day recognized by UNIMA
❖ March 22 World Day for Water (Recognized by the UN)
❖ March 23 World Meteorological Day (Recognized by the UN)
❖ March 24 International Day for Achievers, World Tuberculosis Day (Recognized by the
UN)
❖ March 25 International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the
Transatlantic Slave Trade (Recognized by the UN), American Diabetes Alert Day
❖ March 26 Purple Day for Epilepsy
❖ March 27 World Theatre Day, World Drama Day
April
❖ April 1 April Fool's Day, Orissa Day
❖ April 2 World Autism Awareness Day (Recognized by the UN), International
Children's Book Day
❖ April 5 World Day for Mine Awareness, National Maritime Day (India)
❖ April 7 World Health Day
❖ April 8 World Tradition Day, International Romani Day
❖ April 12 International Day of Human Space Flight - an official United Nations day,
International Day for Street Children, World Aviation & Cosmonautics Day
❖ April 14 Cultural Unity Day (recognized by India, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Bangladesh
and Nepal), National Law Day, Fire Extinguishing Day
❖ April 16 World Entrepreneurship Day (WED)
❖ April 17 World Haemophilia Day (Recognized by the UN), Zoo Awareness Day
❖ April 18 World Heritage Day
❖ April 21 Secretaries Day, Civil Services Day (India), World Creativity and Innovation
Day
❖ April 22 Earth Day
❖ April 23 World Book and Copyright Day (Recognized by the UN), Easter Day
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❖ April 24 World Day for Laboratory Animals (Recognized by the UN), World Meningitis
Day
❖ April 25 Parental Alienation Awareness Day, Penguin Day, World Meningitis Day,
World Malaria Day, National Administrative Professionals Day, World Veterinary Day
❖ April 26 World Intellectual Property Day (Recognized by the UN)
❖ April 28 International Worker's Memorial Day, World Day for Safety and Health at
Work
❖ April 29 International Dance Day, International Make-A-Wish Day
❖ April 30 International Jazz Day
May
❖ May 1 World Naturist Day, May Day or Labour Day, Gujarat Statehood Day,
Maharastra Statehood Day
❖ May 2 International Astronomy Day
❖ May 3 World Solar Energy Day, World Asthma Day, World Press Freedom Day (UN)
❖ May 4 International Fire fighters' Day, Star Wars Day, Coal Miners' Days
❖ May 5 International Midwives Day, World Athletics Day, Day of Vesak(recognized by the
UN)
❖ May 6 International Awareness Day for Orthogenesis Imperfect (Brittle Bones)
❖ May 7 Bladder Cancer Awareness Day, National Institute of Sports Founder's Day
❖ May 8 World Red Cross & Red Crescent Day
❖ May 9 World Thalassaemia Day, Europe Day
❖ May 10 World Mother Day, World Lupus Day
❖ May 11 National Technology Day (India), National Resurgence Day
❖ May 12 World Hypertension Day, World Nurses Day, World Migratory Bird Day
(recognized by the UN and UNEP)
❖ May 13 International Criminal Court Day, National Solidarity Day
❖ May 14 Bone and Joint Day
❖ May 15 International Day of Families (Recognized by the UN)
❖ May 16 Sikkim Day
❖ May 17 World Telecommunication Day, World AIDS Vaccine Day, World Information
Society Day (Recognized by the UN)
❖ May 18 International Museum Day
❖ May 19 World Hepatitis Day
❖ May 20 World Autoimmune Arthritis Day, sponsored by the International Auto
immune Arthritis Movement, World Metrology Day
❖ May 21 World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development (Recognized
by the UN), Anti Terrorism Day
❖ May 22 International Day for Biological Diversity (Recognized by the UN), World Goth
Day
❖ May 23 World Turtle Day
❖ May 24 Common wealth Day
❖ May 25 World Thyroid Day, Geek Pride Day
❖ May 29 International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers (Recognized by the UN),
Redhead Day, International Mount Everest Day (Designated by Nepal)
❖ May 31 World Anti Tobacco Day (Recognized by the UN)
June
❖ June 1 Global Day of Parents, International Children's Day, World Milk Day
❖ June 4 International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
❖ June 5 World Environment Day
❖ June 6 Hunger Day
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❖ June 8 World Ocean Day, World Brain Tumors Day

❖ June 10 Ballpoint Pen Day
❖ June 12 World Day Against Child Labour
❖ June 14 World Blood Donor Day
❖ June 15 World Elder Abuse Awareness Day
❖ June 16 International Integration Day,
❖ June 17 World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought (Recognized by the UN),
Badger Day, Panic Day
❖ June 18 International Picnic Day, International Ride to Work Day
❖ June 19 World Sickle Cell Day, by UN Resolution
❖ June 20 World Refugee Day (Recognized by the UN)
❖ June 21 World Music Day
❖ June 23 United Nations Public Service Day (Recognized by the UN), International
Olympic Day, International Widow's Day
❖ June 26 International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking (Recognized by
the UN), International Day in Support of Victims of Torture (Recognized by the UN),
International Anti - Drugs Day
❖ June 27 Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Awareness Day, World Diabetes Day
❖ 3rd Sunday of June International Father's Day
July
❖ July 1 Doctor's Day, International Joke Day, Architecture Day
❖ July 2 World UFO Day, World Sports Journalists Day
❖ July 6 World Zoonoses Day
❖ July 7 International Cooperative Day
❖ July 8 Writer's Day
❖ July 11 World Population Day (Recognized by the UN)
❖ July 16 Disability (ADA) Awareness Day
❖ July 18 Mandela Day (Recognized by the UN)
❖ July 26 Kargil Memorial Day
❖ July 28 World Hepatitis Day, World Nature Conservation Day
❖ July 29 International Tiger Day
❖ July 30 International Day of Friendship (recognized by the UN)
❖ July 31 Orgasm Day
❖ Last Friday of July System Administrator Appreciation Day
August
❖ August 1 Clergy Sexual Abuse Awareness Day US & International
❖ August 3 World Friendship Day, Liberation Day
❖ August 5 International Beer Day
❖ August 6 Hiroshima Day, Anti Nuclear Day
❖ August 7 International Hipster Day
❖ August 8 World Senior Citizen Day
❖ August 9 Quit India Day (India), Nagasaki Day, International Day of the World's
Indigenous People, World Gifted & Talented Awareness Day, National Women's Day in
South Africa
❖ August 10 Dengue Prevention Day, International Sorry Ranga (redhead) Day
❖ August 12 International Youth Day (Recognized by the UN), Librarians Day
❖ August 13 International Lefthanders Day
❖ August 14 Pakistan's Independence Day
❖ August 15 India's Independence Day, West Bengal Day, World Internet Appreciation
Day, International Mourning Day
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❖ August 16 Black day

❖ August 19 World Humanitarian Day, World Photography Day
❖ August 20 World Mosquito Day
❖ August 21 World Fashion Day
❖ August 23 International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition
(Recognized by the UN)
❖ August 24 Kolkata's Birth Day, Sanskrit Day
❖ August 26 Namibia Day
❖ August 29 National Sports Day (India), International Day against Nuclear Tests, Telugu
Language Day
❖ August 30 International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, Small Industry
Day
September
❖ September 1 to 7 Nutrition Week
❖ September 2 World Coconut Day
❖ September 4 Minority Welfare Day, World Cerebral Palsy Day
❖ September 5 Teachers Day (India), Sanskrit Day (India)
❖ September 8 International Literacy Day (Recognized by the UN), World Physical Therapy
Day
❖ September 10 World Suicide Prevention Day, Punjab Statehood Day, Haryana
Statehood Day
❖ September 11 World First Aid Day
❖ September 12 United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation
❖ September 13 World Flowers Day
❖ September 14 Hindi Day (India)
❖ September 15 International Day of Democracy, International Day of Engineers
❖ September 16 World Ozone Day
❖ September 19 International Talk Like a Pirate Day
❖ September 21 International Day of Peace (Recognized by the UN), World Alzheimer's
Day, Biosphere Day
❖ September 22 World Car Free Day, World Rose Day (Welfare of Cancer Patients),
World Rhino Day
❖ September 24 Dating Day, World Heart Day, World Clean-up Day
❖ September 26 European Day of Languages, World Day Of The Deaf, CSIR
Foundation Day
❖ September 27 World Tourism Day
❖ September 28 Right to Know Day, World Rabies Day, Gunners Day
❖ September 30 World Helping Day, Blasphemy Day
❖ Last week of September World Maritime Day
October
❖ October 1 World Vegetarian Day, International Day of Older Persons (Recognized by the
UN)
❖ October 2 International Day of Non-Violence, Human Rights Protection Day, Prisoner's
Day, World Ostony Day, World Animal Day
❖ October 3 World Smile Day, World Nature Day
❖ October 4 World Animal Welfare Day
❖ October 5 World Teachers' Day, Poetry Day
❖ October 8 World Humanitarian Action Day, World Egg Day, Rapid Action Force Raising
Day
❖ October 9 World Hospice and Palliative Care Day, World Post Day, Global Jamie Day
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❖ October 10 World Mental Health Day, World Day Against Death Penalty, National Post
Day (India)
❖ October 11 National Coming Out Day
❖ October 12 World arthritis day
❖ October 13 International Suit Up Day, Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day, World
Day for Natural Disaster Reduction (UN), World Calamity Control Day (UN)
❖ October 14 World Standards Day
❖ October 15 World Blind Day, International Day of Rural Women (Recognized by the UN),
Global Hand washing Day, World White Cane Day
❖ October 16 National Boss Day, World Food Day (Recognized by the UN), World
Anaesthesiologists Day
❖ October 17 International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (Recognized by the UN),
World Trauma Day
❖ October 20 International Day of the Air Traffic Controller, World Statistics Day, World
Osteoporosis Day
❖ October 21 Global Iodine Deficiency Disorders Day, Police Commemoration Day
❖ October 22 International Stuttering Awareness Day
❖ October 24 United Nations Day (Recognized by the UN), World Development Information
Day (Recognized by the UN), World Polio Day
❖ October 25 Spina Bifida Awareness Day, Hydrocephalus Day
❖ October 27 World Day for Audiovisual Heritage (Recognized by the UN), Infantry Day
❖ October 28 International Animation Day, INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY
❖ October 29 Sleep In Day
❖ October 30 World Thrift Day, International Orthopaedic Nurses Day
❖ October 31 National Integration Day (India)
November
❖ November 1 World Vegan Day
❖ November 5 World Interact Day
❖ November 6 International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War
and Armed Conflict (Recognized by the UN)
❖ November 8 World Radiographer Day
❖ November 9 World Freedom Day, World Legal Services Day
❖ November 10 World Immunization Day
❖ November 12 World Pneumonia Day
❖ November 13 World Kindness Day
❖ November 14 World Diabetes Day (Recognized by the UN), Children's Day (India)
❖ November 16 International Day for Tolerance, World Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary
Disease Day
❖ November 17 International Students Day
❖ November 19 International Journalist's remembrance Day, International Men's Day
❖ November 20 Africa Industrialization Day (Recognized by the UN), Universal Children's
Day (Recognized by the UN), Transgender Day of Remembrance
❖ November 21 World Hello Day, World Television Day (Recognized by the UN), World
Fisheries Day
❖ November 25 International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (Recognized
by the UN), International Meatless
❖ November 26 National Law Day (India)
❖ November 29 International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People (Recognized by the
UN)
❖ November 30 Computer Security Day
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❖ 3rd Sunday of November World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims
(Recognized by the UN)
December
❖ December 1 World Aids Day (Recognized by the UN)
❖ December 2 International Day for the Abolition of Slavery (Recognized by the UN), World
Computer Literacy Day
❖ December 3 World Conservation Day, World Day of the Handicapped
❖ December 4 Indian Navy Day
❖ December 5 International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development
(Recognized by the UN)
❖ December 6 National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women -
Status of Women Canada
❖ December 7 Indian Armed Force Flag Day, International Civil Aviation Day (Recognized
by the UN)
❖ December 9 The International Day against Corruption (Recognized by the UN)
❖ December 10 Human Rights Day (Recognized by the UN), International Animal Rights Day
❖ December 11 International Mountain Day (Recognized by the UN)
❖ December 12 The International Day Of Heavy Metal
❖ December 14 National Energy Conservation Day (India)
❖ December 18 International Migrants Day (Recognized by the UN)
❖ December 20 International Human Solidarity Day (Recognized by the UN)
❖ December 23 Farmers Day (India)
❖ December 29 International Biodiversity Day