If you are preparing for competitive exams like NDA, CDS, AFCAT, INET, TA, UPSC or even RRB, SSC CGL, etc. You will face a few questions from the list of important days. Such questions are coming in the competitive exams frequently and in this article, we are going to mention the monthwise important days with the date.

So, to prepare well for the competitive exam, you must remember the important days, months and dates. The list of important days will help you prepare for the exam so that you can face the questions from important days of both National and International i.e. India and World.

January Important Days 2020

List of Important Days and Events for the month of January 2020

Dates / Days	Event/ Occasion
1st January	Global Family Day
4th January	World Braille Day
9th January	NRI Day (Pravasi Bharatiya Divas)
10th January	World Hindi Day
12th January	National Youth Day
13th January	Guru Gobind Singh Jayanti
15th January	Indian Army Day
23rd January	Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Jayanti
24th January	National Girl Child Day
25th January	National Voters Day National Tourism Day
26th January	India’s Republic Day, International Customs Day
27th January	International Day of Commemoration (Holocaust Remembrance & Education)
January(Last Sunday)	World Leprosy Day
30th January	Martyrs’ Day

February Important Days 2020

List of Important Days and Events for the month of February 2020

Dates & Days	Event
1st February	Kalpana Chawla’s Death Anniversary
2nd February	World Wetlands Day
4th February	World Cancer Day
6th February	International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation
7th February	Safer Internet Day (second day of second week of February)
10th February	World Pulses Day National De-worming Day
11th February	International day of women and girls in science Thomas Edison’s Birth Anniversary
12th February	International Darwin Day National Productivity Day
13th February	World Radio Day National Women’s Day
14th February	Valentine Day
20th February	World Day of Social Justice
21st February	International Mother Language Day
24th February	Central Excise Day
28th February	National Science Day

March Important Days 2020

List of Important Days and Events for the month of March 2020

Dates & Days	Event
1st March	Zero Discrimination Day World Civil Defense Day
3rd March	World Wildlife Day, National Defense Day
4th March	National Security Day
8th March	International Women’s Day World Kidney Day
10th March	CISF Raising Day
11th March	Commonwealth Day
15th March	World Consumer Rights Day
16th March	National Vaccination Day
18th March	Ordnance Factories Day Global Recycling Day
20th March	World Happiness Day World Sparrow Day
21st March	World Forestry Day, International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination World Down Syndrome Day
22nd March	World Water Day
23rd March	World Meteorological Day
24th March	World TB Day
25th March	International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
27th March	World Theatre Day

April Important Days 2020

List of Important Days and Events for the month of April 2020

Dates / Days	Event / Occasion
1st April	Prevention of Blindness Week
2nd April	World Autism Awareness Day
4th April	International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine action
5th April	National Maritime Day
7th April	World Health Day, Handloom Week
8th April	World Tradition Day
10th April	World Homeopathy Day
11th April	National Safe Motherhood Day
17th April	World Hemophilia Day
18th April	World Heritage Day
21st April	Secretaries’ Day
22nd April	International Earth Day
23rd April	World Book & Copyright Day
24th April	National Panchayati Day
29th April	International Dance Day

May Important Days 2020

List of Important Days and Events for the month of May 2020

Dates / Days	Event / Occasion
1st May	International Labor Day, Maharashtra Day
3rd May	Press Freedom Day
1st (Sunday)	World Laughter Day
1st (Tuesday)	World Asthma Day
2nd (Sunday)	Mother’s Day
4th May	Coal Miners’ Day, International Firefighters Day
7th May	World Athletics Day
8th May	World Red Cross Day, Mother’s Day
8th May	World Thalassaemia Day
11th May	National Technology Day
12th May	International Nurses Day
15th May	International Day of Family
17th May	World Telecommunication Day, World Hypertension Day
18th May	World AIDS Vaccine Day
22nd May	International Day for Biological Diversity
24th May	National Commonwealth Day
31st May	Anti-tobacco Day

June Important Days 2020

List of Important Days and Events for the month of June 2020

Dates / Days	Event / Occasion
1st June	World Milk Day
4th June	International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
5th June	World Environment Day
8th June	World Ocean Day
(3rd Sunday) June	Father’s Day
12th June	Anti-Child Labor Day
14th June	World Blood Donor Day
20th June	World Refugee Day
21st June	International Yoga Day
26th June	International Day against Drug Abuse & Illicit Trafficking

July Important Days 2020

List of Important Days and Events for the month of July 2020

Dates / Days	Event / Occasion
1st July	Doctor’s Day
6th July	World Zoonoses Day
11th July	World Population Day
17th July	International Nelson Mandela Day
28th July	World Nature Conservation Day

August Important Days 2020

List of Important Days and Events for the month of August 2020

Dates / Days	Event / Occasion
1st – 7th August	World Breastfeeding Week
(1st Sunday) August	International Friendship Day
6th August	Hiroshima Day
9th August	Quit India Day International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
11th August	National Daughter’s Day
13th August	Organ Donation Day
15th August	Indian Independence Day
19th August	Photography Day
21st August	World Senior Citizen’s Day
29th August	National Sports Day

September Important Days 2020

List of Important Days and Events for the month of September 2020

Dates / Days	Event / Occasion
1st September	National Nutrition Week
2nd September	World Coconut Day
5th September	Teachers’ Day
8th September	International Literacy Day
15th September	Engineers’ Day
16th September	World Ozone Day
21st September	Alzheimer’s Day
22nd September	Rose Day (Welfare of Cancer patients)
(Last Saturday) September	World Rivers Day
26th September	World Contraception Day
27th September	World Tourism Day
29th September	World Heart Day

October Important Days 2020

List of Important Days and Events for the month of October 2020

Dates / Days	Event / Occasion
1st October	International Day for the Elderly
2nd October	Gandhi Jayanthi, International Day of Non-Violence
(1st Monday) October	World Habitat Day
4th October	World Animal Welfare Day
8th October	Indian Air Force Day
9th October	World Post Office Day
10th October	World Mental Health Day, National Post Day
10th October	World Sight Day
11th October	International Day of the Girl Child
13th October	International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction
14th October	World Standards Day
15th October	World Students Day, World White Cane Day
16th October	World Food Day
24th October	World Development Information Day, UN Day
30th October	World Thrift Day

November Important Days 2020

List of Important Days and Events for the month of November 2020

Dates / Days	Event / Occasion
5th November	World Tsunami Day National Ayurveda Day
7th November	National Cancer Awareness Day
9th November	Legal Services Day
11th November	National Education Day
14th November	Children’s Day, Diabetes Day
17th November	National Epilepsy Day
20th November	Africa Industrialisation Day
21st November	World Television Day
29th November	International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People

December Important Days 2020

List of Important Days and Events for the month of December 2020

Dates & Days	Event
1st December	World AIDS Day
2nd December	National Pollution Control
3rd December	World Day of Handicapped
4th December	Indian Navy Day
7th December	Indian Armed Forces Flag Day
10th December	Human Rights Day
11th December	International Mountain Day
14th December	World Energy Conservation Day
16th December	Vijay Diwas
18th December	Minorities Rights Day
22nd December	National Mathematics Day
23rd December	Kisan Divas
24th December	National Consumers Day
25th December	Christmas

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