Important Days & Dates GK Questions with Answers

National Handloom Day falls on 7 August because the Swadeshi Movement was launched on that day in 1905.

The UN World Tourism Organization chose India to host the official World Tourism Day celebrations of 27 September 2019. World Tourism Day is observed every year on 27 September.

On 3 March 2021 the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution, proposed by India, declaring 2023 the International Year of Millets.

Veer Baal Diwas is observed on 26 December to honour the martyrdom of the two youngest sons of Guru Gobind Singh.

National Youth Day is observed on 12 January, not 12 March, and it marks the birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda.

The UN General Assembly fixed 15 September as the International Day of Democracy. The General Assembly adopted the resolution in 2007, and the day was first observed in 2008.

World Humanitarian Day is marked every year on 19 August to honour aid workers who have been killed or injured while helping others, and to draw attention to people affected by crises.

The UN General Assembly set aside 15 October as the International Day of Rural Women in December 2007, and it was first observed in 2008.

International Mother Language Day was proclaimed by UNESCO, not UNICEF, while the demand for Bangla as a national language was indeed raised in Pakistan's Constituent Assembly.

The United Nations marks 12 August every year as International Youth Day. The UN General Assembly endorsed the day in 1999, on the recommendation of the World Conference of Ministers Responsible for Youth held in Lisbon in 1998, and it was first observed in 2000.

The day marks the Pokhran nuclear tests of 11 May 1998. On 11 May 1998 India carried out the Shakti series of nuclear tests at Pokhran in Rajasthan, under Operation Shakti; two more tests followed on 13 May.

India marks 21 May as Anti-Terrorism Day because former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated on that day in 1991.

The Earth's orbit is a slight ellipse, and it reaches aphelion, its greatest distance of about 152 million kilometres, in early July, while perihelion, its least distance of about 147 million kilometres, comes in early January.

The Gregorian cycle of 400 years contains 97 leap years, so it holds 146,097 days, and dividing that by 400 gives exactly 365.2425 days for the mean year.

The Calendar Reform Committee, set up under the chairmanship of the physicist Meghnad Saha, recommended a unified national calendar, and the Saka calendar was adopted with effect from 22 March 1957, which was the first day of Chaitra in the Saka year 1879.

Twice a year, about 21 March and about 23 September, the Sun's vertical rays fall on the Equator, the circle of illumination passes through both poles, and day and night are of equal length over the whole Earth, which is what the Latin root of the word equinox, meaning equal…

On this date, the June solstice, the Sun's rays fall vertically on the Tropic of Cancer at 23.5 degrees north, so the Northern Hemisphere receives its longest day and shortest night while the Southern Hemisphere has its shortest day.

Move forward one year at a time, adding one odd day for an ordinary span and two when a 29 February falls inside it.

A year repeats another year's calendar when the odd days between them add up to a multiple of seven and both years are of the same kind, ordinary or leap.

The Julian calendar, in use from 46 BC, assumed a year of exactly 365.25 days, which is about eleven minutes longer than the true tropical year of roughly 365.2422 days, so it gained a day about every 128 years and the equinox slid out of place.