List of Important Days & Dates 2020 (National & International): Month-Wise

 

List of Important Days & Dates 2020 

(National & International):

 Month-Wise

List of Important Days and Dates 2020

Important Days and Dates of January 2020

• January 1: Global Family Day
• January 4: World Braille Day
• January 9: NRI Day (Pravasi Bhartiya Diwas)
• January 10: World Hindi Day
• January 12: National Youth Day, 
• January 13: Lohri Day
• January 14-15: Makar Sankranti (Makara Sankranti is set by the solar cycle of the Hindu lunisolar calendar, and is observed on a day which usually falls on 14 January of the Gregorian calendar, but sometimes on 15 January)
• January 15: Army day
• January 23: Netaji Subash Chandra Bose Jayanti
• January 25: National Voters day, National Tourism Day
• January 26: India’s Republic Day, International Customs Day
• January 27: International Day of Commemoration
• January 30: Martyrs’ Day
• January (last Sunday): World Leprosy Eradication Day

Important Dates and Days of February 2020

• February 2: World Wetlands Day
• February 4: World Cancer Day
• February 6: International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation
• February 5: Safer Internet Day (second day of the second week of February)
• February 10: National De-worming Day
• February 11: International Day of Women and Girls in Science
• February 12: National Productivity Day
• February 13: World Radio Day, National Women's Day (Birth Date of Sarojini Naidu)
• February 14: Valentine Day
• February 20: World Day of Social Justice
• February 21: International Mother Language Day
• February 24: Central Excise Day
• February 27: World NGO Day
• February 28: National Science Day
• February 28/29: Rare Disease Day

Important Days and Dates of March 2020

• March 1: Zero Discrimination Day; World Civil Defence Day
• March 3: World Wildlife Day, World Hearing Day
• March 4: National Security Day
• March 8: International Women’s Day
• March 12: World Kidney Day
• March 14: International Day of Action for Rivers, Pi Day
• March 15: World Consumer Rights Day
• March 18: Ordnance Factories Day (India)
• March 20: International Day of Happiness; World Sparrow day
• March 21: World Forestry Day; World Down Syndrome Day; World Poetry Day
• March 22: World Day for Water, Bihar Day
• March 23: World Meteorological Day
• March 24: World TB Day
• March 27: World Theatre Day
• Second Wednesday of March: No Smoking Day
• Second Thursday of March: World Kidney Day 

Important Days and Dates of April 2020

• April 1: Utkal Diwas
• April 2: World Autism Awareness Day
• April 4: International Day for Mine Awareness
• April 5: National Maritime Day
• April 7: World Health Day
• April 10: World Homeopathy Day
• April 11: National Safe Motherhood Day; National Pet Day
• April 13: Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
• April 17: World Haemophilia Day
• April 18: World Heritage Day
• April 19: World Liver Day
• April 21: Secretaries’ Day; Civil Services Day
• April 22: Earth Day
• April 23: World Book and Copyright Day
• April 24: National Panchayati Day
• April 25: World Malaria Day
• April 26: World Intellectual Property Day
• April 27:World Veterinary Day
• April 28: World Day for Safety and Health at Work; 
• April 29: International Dance Day
• April 30: Ayushman Bharat Diwas

Important Days and Dates of May 2020

• May 1: Workers’ Day (International Labour Day), Maharashtra Day
• May 3: Press Freedom Day
• May (1st Sunday): World Laughter Day
• May (1st Tuesday): World Asthma Day
• May (2nd Sunday): Mother’s Day
• May 4: Coal Miners’ Day; International Firefighters Day
• May 7: World Athletics Day
• May 8: World Red Cross Day; World Thalassaemia Day
• May 11: National Technology Day
• May 12: International Nurses Day
• May 15: International Day of the Family
• May 17: World Telecommunication Day; World Hypertension Day
• May 18: World AIDS Vaccine Day; International Museum Day
• May 21: National Anti-Terrorism Day
• May 22: International Day for Biological Diversity
• May 24: Commonwealth Day
• May 31: Anti-tobacco Day

Important Days and Dates of June 2020

• June 1: World Milk Day
• June 3: World Bicycle Day
• June 4: International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
• June 5: World Environment Day
• June (3rd Sunday): Father’s Day
• June 7: World Food Safety Day
• June 8: World Ocean Day, World Brain Tumour Day
• June 12: Anti-Child Labor Day
• June 13: International Albinism Awareness Day
• June 14: World Blood Donor Day
• June 15: World Wind Day
• June 20: World Refugee Day
• June 21: International day of yoga, World Music Day, World Hydrography Day
• June 23: United Nations Public Service Day, International Olympic Day
• June 26: International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking

Important Days and Dates of July 2020

• July 1: Doctor’s Day
• July 6: World Zoonoses Day
• July 11: World Population Day
• July 17: World Day for International Justice
• July 18: International Nelson Mandela Day
• July 28: World Hepatitis Day

Important Days and Dates of August 2020

• August (1st Sunday): International Friendship Day
• August 6: Hiroshima Day
• August 9: Quit India Day, Nagasaki Day, IntI. Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
• August 15: Indian Independence Day
• August 15: Sanskrit Day (Date may vary every year as it is celebrated on the Shrawan Poornima on Full Moon day according to the Hindu Calendar)
• August 12: International Youth Day
• August 19: Photography Day; World Humanitarian Day
• August 29: National Sports Day

Important Days and Dates of September 2020

• September 2: Coconut Day
• September 5: Teachers’ Day
• September 8: International Literacy Day
• September 14: Hindi Diwas
• September 15: Engineers’ Day; International Day of Democracy
• September 16: World Ozone Day; International Day for Preservation
• September 21: Alzheimer’s Day; Day for Peace & Non-violence (UN)
• September 22: Rose Day (Welfare of cancer patients)
• September 23: International Day of Sign Languages
• September 26: Day of the Deaf; World Contraception Day
• September 27: World Tourism Day; World Maritime Day
• September 29: World Heart Day
• September 30: International Translation Day
• September: world rivers day (fourth Sunday of September) 

Important Days and Dates of October 2020

• October 1: International Day for the Elderly
• October 2: Gandhi Jayanthi; International Day of Non-Violence
• October(first Monday): World Habitat Day
• October 4: World Animal Welfare Day
• October 8: Indian Air Force Day
• October 9: World Post Office Day
• October 10: National Post Day; World Mental Health Day
• October 11: National Girl Child Day
• October 2nd Thursday: World Sight Day
• October 13: UN International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction
• October 14: World Standards Day
• October 15: World Students Day; World White Cane Day (guiding the blind)
• October 16: World Food Day
• October 24: UN Day; World Development Information Day
• October 30: World Thrift Day
• October 31: National Unity Day

Important Days and Dates of November 2020

• November 5: World tsunami day
• November 7: National Cancer Awareness Day
• November 9: Legal Services Day
• November 14: Children’s Day; Diabetes Day
• November 17: National Epilepsy Day
• November 20: Africa Industrialization Day
• November 21: World Television Day
• November 29: International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People

Important Days and Dates of December 2020

• December 1: World AIDS Day
• December 2: National Pollution Control
• December 3: World Day of the Handicapped
• December 4: Indian Navy Day
• December 7: Indian Armed Forces Flag Day
• December 10: Human Rights Day;
• December 11: International Mountain Day
• December 14: World Energy Conservation Day
• December 16: Vijay Diwas
• December 18: Minorities Rights Day (India)
• December 22: National Mathematics Day
• December 23: Kisan Divas (Farmer’s Day) (India)
• December 24: National Consumers Day
• December 25: Christmas Day