Important Days & Dates Mixed Quiz: Set 25

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

He issued the bull Inter gravissimas in February 1582 and the new calendar took effect that October, correcting the drift that had built up in the older system and tightening the rule for leap years.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

Vikram Samvat began in 57 BCE, so the Vikrami year is obtained by adding 57 to the Christian year; this is the era printed on wedding invitations and traditional almanacs in northern India and is the official calendar of Nepal.

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

Chaitya Bhoomi, at Dadar on the sea front in Mumbai, is the place where Dr. B. R. Ambedkar was cremated after his death on 6 December 1956, and his followers gather there in lakhs on Mahaparinirvan Diwas.

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

The day goes back to the First International Thrift Congress, held in Milan in 1924, whose closing day was 31 October; savings banks across the world have marked it since, and in India banks use it to promote small savings and deposit habits.

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 Constituent Assembly adopted, enacted and gave to itself the Constitution on the twenty sixth of November 1949, and that day is kept every year as Constitution Day or Samvidhan Divas.

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.

The Great Depression began with the crash of the New York stock market in October 1929, remembered through Black Thursday and Black Tuesday of that month.

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.

With it India became the fourth country to land on the Moon and the first to land in that polar region, and the landing site was named Shiv Shakti Point.