Important Days & Dates Mixed Quiz: Set 22

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.

That day was 1 Chaitra 1879 of the Saka era, and the calendar came into use on the recommendation of the Calendar Reform Committee, which had reported in 1955.

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.

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.

Twenty-five completed years are marked as a silver jubilee, called the Rajat Jayanti in Hindi, rajat being the word for silver, and the name comes from the old custom of giving silver on the twenty-fifth wedding anniversary.

Shastri, the second Prime Minister of India, died at Tashkent on 11 January 1966, a day after signing the Tashkent Declaration with Pakistan, and his samadhi in Delhi is named Vijay Ghat after the victory of 1965.

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 goods and services tax came into force on 1 July 2017, and the day is observed every year as GST 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.

Bihar Diwas recalls the twenty-second of March 1912, when Bihar was separated from the Bengal Presidency and constituted as a province of its own, along with Orissa; the two were separated from each other later.

The golden jubilee marks fifty completed years and is called the Swarna Jayanti in Hindi, the name taken from the gift of gold traditionally made on a fiftieth wedding anniversary.

The day was approved in 2021 as Janjatiya Gaurav Divas, the day of tribal pride.

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.

The fourth session of the Indian National Congress met at Allahabad in 1888 and elected George Yule as its president, and he was the first Englishman and the first non Indian to hold the office.

The diamond jubilee, the Hirak Jayanti, marks sixty completed years in the usage now standard in India, and the figure is natural because sixty years completes a full cycle in the traditional Indian calendar.

Little Boy was the code name of the uranium fission bomb dropped by the United States on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, the first use of a nuclear weapon in war.

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.

The seventy-fifth year of independence was observed from 2021 as the Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav, and in the scheme of anniversary names seventy-five completed years are a platinum jubilee in Indian official usage.

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.

One hundred and fifty years is a sesquicentennial, the prefix sesqui meaning one and a half, so the word reads as one and a half centuries.