Important Days & Dates GK Questions with Answers – Page 3

Dhyan Chand was born on 29 August 1905 and was part of the Indian hockey teams that won the Olympic gold medal in 1928, 1932 and 1936; he is regarded as the finest hockey player the country has produced, and the national sports awards are conferred on his birthday each…

The day was proposed by the International Council on Monuments and Sites and approved by UNESCO in 1983, and it is used to draw public attention to the conservation of historic buildings, archaeological sites and cultural landscapes, including the sites on the World Heritage List.

International Museum Day was declared by the International Council of Museums, and on it museums across the world open to the public around a common annual theme meant to show the part museums play in education and in society.

Noverre was the French dancer and choreographer who argued that ballet should tell a story through expressive movement rather than remain a display of steps, and the International Theatre Institute chose his birthday, 29 April, for International Dance Day.

World Theatre Day was instituted in 1961 by the International Theatre Institute, and every year a figure from world theatre delivers an international message that is read out in theatres across many countries.

UNESCO fixed this date because it carries unusual literary weight: Miguel de Cervantes, the author of Don Quixote, died on 23 April 1616, and the same date is traditionally given for the death of William Shakespeare.

The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at its session in Paris on 10 December 1948, and the anniversary is observed every year as Human Rights Day.

National Women's Day in India is kept on 13 February, the birth anniversary of Sarojini Naidu, the poet called the Nightingale of India, who presided over the Kanpur session of the Congress in 1925 as its first Indian woman president and later became Governor of the United Provinces.

The United Nations observes 25 November as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and the day opens the sixteen days of activism against gender-based violence that close on Human Rights Day, 10 December.

International Women's Day grew out of the women's labour movements of the early twentieth century, was observed by the United Nations during International Women's Year in 1975 and became a regular United Nations observance soon afterwards.

The International Labour Organization launched the World Day Against Child Labour in 2002 and fixed it on 12 June to focus attention on the extent of child labour and on the action needed to end it.

The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution in December 2011 declaring 11 October as the International Day of the Girl Child, and the first observance was held in 2012.

National Girl Child Day was instituted by the Ministry of Women and Child Development and is observed on 24 January to draw attention to the sex ratio, to girls' education and to schemes such as Beti Bachao Beti Padhao, which was launched at Panipat on 22 January 2015.

The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child on 20 November 1959 and the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the same date in 1989, so World Children's Day, earlier called Universal Children's Day, is observed on 20 November.

Children's Day in India falls on 14 November, the birth anniversary of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, who was fond of children and was called Chacha Nehru.

The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Paris on 10 December 1948, and the day has been observed on that anniversary ever since.

Amanta is formed from ama, the new moon, and anta, the end, so the month closes on the new moon day and the next month opens with the bright fortnight; Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu and Gujarat follow it.

The word panchang is made of panch, meaning five, and anga, meaning limb, and the five limbs recorded for every day are the tithi or lunar day, the vara or weekday, the nakshatra or lunar mansion, the yoga and the karana.

The Julian calendar then in use counted the year slightly too long, and by the sixteenth century the error had grown to ten days; the Pope's reform of 1582 dropped those days and changed the leap year rule, so that a century year is a leap year only when it…

The astrophysicist, known for the Saha ionisation equation that explains the spectra of stars, headed the committee set up under the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research in 1952; it reported in 1955 and the calendar it recommended came into use on 22 March 1957.