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          General Awareness is the most important and interesting section for Defence Exams. In GK, 
          5-7 questions are asked from the static awareness. 
          Today we will discuss one of the major topics of static awareness which is asked in the exam 
          i.e Important Dates & Days.  
                           List of Important Days  
                       Dates                        Day 
                                    January 
                      4 January                 World Braille day 
                      9 January            NRI day / Pravasi Bharatiya Divas 
                     10 January                 World Hindi Day 
                     12 January                 National youth day 
                     15 January                   Army Day 
                     24 January                National girl child day 
                     25 January                National Voters Day 
                     26 January              International Customs Day 
                     26 January                 69th Republic Day 
                     27 January          International Day of Commemoration in 
                                         memory of the victims of the Holocaust 
                     28 January                World Leprosy Day 
                                    February 
                     2 February                World Wetlands Day  
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                 4 February          World Cancer Day 
                 6 February    International day of Zero Tolerance to female 
                                      genital mutilation 
                11 February      International day Women and girls in 
                                        Science 
                12 February         National Productivity Day 
                13 February           World Radio Day 
                20 February        World Day of Social Justice 
                21 February       International Mother language day 
                22 February          World Thinking day 
                28 February          National Science Day 
                             March 
                 1 March            World Civil Defence Day 
                 3 March             World Wildlife Day 
                 3 March             World Hearing Day 
                 8 March           International Women’s Day 
                 8 March             World Kidney Day 
                 12 March            Commonwealth Day 
                 15 March          World Consumer Rights Day 
                 16 March           World Sleep Day         
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                 20 March         International Day of Happiness 
                 20 March            World Sparrow day 
                 21 March       International Day for the Elimination of 
                                     Racial Discrimination 
                 21 March          International Day of Forests 
                 21 March          World Down Syndrome Day 
                 21 March            World Poetry Day 
                 22 March             World Water Day 
                 23 March          World Meteorological Day 
                 24 March           World Tuberculosis Day 
                                International Day of Remembrance of the 
                 25 March       Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic 
                                       Slave Trade 
                 27 March           World Theatre Day 2018 
                             April 
                  2 April         World Autism Awareness Day 
                  4 April        National Day for Mine Awareness and 
                                    assistance in Mine action 
                  5 April           National Maritime Day 
                  7 April            World Health Day 
                 10 April           World Homeopathy Day 
                 11 April         National Safe Motherhood Day 
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                 11 April             National Pet Day 
                 17 April           World Hemophilia Day 
                 18 April            World Heritage Day 
                 19 April             World Liver Day 
                 21 April            Civil Services Day 
                 22 April             World Earth Day 
                 23 April         World Book and Copyright Day 
                 24 April          National Panchayati Raj Day 
                 25 April            World Malaria Day 
                 26 April         World Intellectual Property Day 
                 28 April       World Day for Safety and Health at Work 
                 28 April           World Veterinary Day 
                 30 April           Ayushman Bharat Diwas 
                             May 
                  1 May             International Labour Day 
                  1 May              World Asthma Day 
                  3 May            World Press Freedom Day 
                  8 May              World Red Cross Day 
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