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Important Days and themes of August

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🎯1st August

👉World Lung Cancer Day

👉World Wide Web Day

👉Muslim Women's Rights Day

🎯World Breastfeeding Week 2022: 01-07 August

✅Theme 2022 - "Step up for breastfeeding: Educate and Support"

🎯2nd August

👉Andal Thirunakshatram - Birth Anniversary of Sri Andal (Tamil Saint-Poet)

👉146th Birth Anniversary of Pingali Venkayya

🎯4th August

👉U.S. Coast Guard Day

🎯5th August

👉International Traffic Light Day

🎯6th August

👉Hiroshima Day - 77th Anniversary world's first atomic bombing (on August 6, 1945)

🎯7th August

👉National Handloom Day (8th edition) - Started in 2015

✅Theme 2022 - "Handloom, an Indian Legacy"

👉Javelin Throw Day (2nd edition) - Started in 2021 by the Athletics Federation of India

🎯8th August

👉Quit India Day (80th Anniversary)

🎯9th August

👉International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples - Started in 1994 by the General Assembly of the United Nations

✅Theme 2022 - "The role of Indigenous Women in the Preservation and Transmission of Traditional Knowledge"

🔹The day is also known as World Tribal Day.

👉Nagasaki Day - 77th Anniversary (on August 9, 1945)

🎯10th August

👉World Biofuel Day - Started in 2015 by the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas

✅Theme 2022 - "Biofuels for Sustainability and Rural Income"World Lion Day - Started in 2013

🎯12th August

👉International Youth Day - Started in 1965 by UN General Assembly

✅Theme 2022 - "Intergenerational Solidarity: Creating a World for All Ages"

👉World Elephant Day - Started in 2012
👉World Sanskrit Day - Started in 1969

🔹World Sanskrit Day is celebrated on 'Sawan Poornima' in the Hindu calendar.

🎯13th August

👉World Organ Donation Day

✅Theme 2022 - "Let's pledge to donate organs and save lives"

📝Fact -

🔹The first-ever successful living donor organ transplant was carried out in 1954 in the US.

👉International Lefthanders Day

🎯14th August

👉Partition Horrors Remembrance Day - Started in 2021 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi

🎯15th August

👉75th Independence Day 🇮🇳

👉Sri Aurobindo's 150th Birth Anniversary

🎯16th August

👉Atal Bihari Vajpayee's Death Anniversary (4th death Anniversary)

📝Facts -

🔹He served as the Prime Minister of India for three terms (a short period in 1996, followed by a second and third term between 1998-2004).

🔹He was honoured with the Padma Vibhushan in 1992.

🔹He was also honoured with the Bharat Ratna in 2015.

👉Death Anniversary of Ramkrishna Paramhansa (136th death anniversary, passed away in 1836)

🎯17th August

👉Death Anniversary of freedom fighter Madan Lal Dhingra

🎯19th August

👉World Humanitarian Day - Started in 2008 by United Nations General Assembly

✅Theme 2022 - "To show the importance, effectiveness, and positive impact of humanitarian work"

👉World Photography Day - Started in 1839

✅Theme 2022 - "Pandemic Lockdown Through the Lens"

📝Fact -

🔹The first permanent photo of an object was captured by French Joseph Nicephore Niepce in 1826.

👉104th Birth Anniversary of Dr Shanker Dayal Sharma - Former President (1992-1997)

🎯20th August

👉World Mosquito Day - Started in 1897 'to mark the historic discovery by British doctor Sir Ronald Ross that malaria is transmitted between humans by female Anopheline mosquitoes.

✅Theme 2022 - Harness innovation to reduce the malaria disease burden and save lives.

👉Sadbhavna Diwas - 78th Birth Anniversary of Rajiv Gandhi

📝Fact -

🔹6th PM of India from 1984 to 1989 (youngest PM of India at the age of 40).
🔹In 1991, the Indian government posthumously awarded him the Bharat Ratna.

👉Akshay Urja Diwas - Started in 2004

🎯21st August

👉International Day of Remembrance & Tribute to the victims of Terrorism

✅Theme 2022 - "Memories"

👉World Senior Citizens Day

🎯22nd August

👉International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence based on Religion or Belief - adopted at 73rd UNGA in 2019

🎯23rd August

👉International Day for the Remembrance of Slave Trade and its Abolition - Started in 1998 by UNESCO

✅Theme 2022 - 'Stories of Courage: Resistance to Slavery and Unity against Racism'

👉Internaut Day

🎯World Water Week - August 23 to September 1

✅Theme 2022 - "Seeing the Unseen: The Value of Water"
🔹Celebrated Every year - last week of August
🔹Started in - 1991 by the Stockholm International Water Institute

🎯24th August

👉Independence Day of Ukraine
👉World Gujarati Language Day

🎯26th August

👉International Dog Day - Started in 2004 by animal welfare activist and pet lifestyle expert Colleen Paige
👉Women's Equality Day - Started in 1973

🎯29th August