Important Days & Dates Mixed Quiz: Set 2

She was called the Nightingale of India for her poetry, presided over the Indian National Congress and became the first woman to hold the office of Governor of an Indian province after independence, so her birthday is observed as National Women's Day.

Mahatma Gandhi was born on 2 October 1869 at Porbandar in Gujarat, so his 150th birth anniversary fell on 2 October 2019.

Earth Day began in the United States in 1970 as a demonstration in support of environmental protection and is now observed in many countries as a day for action on pollution, climate and conservation.

National Unity Day, or Rashtriya Ekta Diwas, is observed on 31 October, the birth anniversary of Sardar Patel, who was born in 1875 at Nadiad, Gujarat.

The day is kept to remind governments of their duty towards freedom of expression and to mark the risks journalists take in their work, and it is the first of the international observances in the month.

The Government of India chose his birth anniversary for National Youth Day because his writings and speeches were addressed above all to the young, and his address at the Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1893 remains the best known moment of his life.

National Doctors Day is observed in India on 1 July because that date is both the birth anniversary and the death anniversary of Dr Bidhan Chandra Roy, the physician who became Chief Minister of West Bengal and received the Bharat Ratna.

The United Nations observes this day to draw attention to fresh water and the management of water resources, and in India the same date is also kept as Bihar Diwas, which makes it doubly useful for examinations.

The date was chosen because Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi returned to India from South Africa on 9 January 1915, and his return is treated as the most significant homecoming of an Indian from abroad.

On that date in 1949, Field Marshal K. M. Cariappa took over as the first Indian Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army from the last British officer to hold the post, and the day marks the passing of command into Indian hands.

The day recalls the speech of 1962 in which the rights of the consumer were first set out formally before the United States Congress, and it is now used worldwide to press for fair treatment of buyers.

The day grew out of the movements for women's rights in the early twentieth century and is now observed across the world, with the United Nations adopting a different subject for it each year while the date itself stays fixed.

Her work with wounded soldiers in the Crimean War and the training school she founded afterwards turned nursing into a trained profession, and the day carries her name in every account of it.

Wetlands listed for protection under the treaty are called Ramsar sites, and the name of the town has become the name of the agreement.

World Population Day is observed on 11 July, a date chosen by the United Nations because the population of the world was estimated to have crossed five billion on that day in 1987.

The constitution of the organisation took effect on 7 April 1948, and that date was chosen for the annual observance, which has been held since 1950 with a different subject each year.

The day is observed by the indirect tax administration to mark the occasion and to encourage honest collection of duty, and it is a standard question in papers that include a section on the economy and administration.

The day marks the first voyage of an Indian owned merchant ship from Mumbai to Britain in 1919, a landmark in the history of Indian shipping, and it is observed to recognise the role of the merchant navy in trade.

On 11 May 1998 India carried out nuclear tests at Pokhran in Rajasthan, and the same day brought the first test flight of the indigenous Hansa aircraft and a successful test of the Trishul missile.

Kargil Vijay Diwas is observed on 26 July because the Indian armed forces completed the recapture of the heights in the Kargil sector under Operation Vijay on that date in 1999.