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FIFA has its headquarters at Zurich in Switzerland, from where it administers the World Cup and the world rankings.

Brazil has won the FIFA World Cup five times, in 1958, 1962, 1970, 1994 and 2002, more than any other nation.

The first FIFA World Cup was staged in Uruguay in 1930, the country having been chosen partly because it was celebrating the centenary of its independence and partly because it was the reigning Olympic football champion.

Partition Horrors Remembrance Day is observed on 14 August, the day before Independence Day, in memory of the millions who were displaced and of those who lost their lives during the partition of 1947.

The first of July is observed as Chartered Accountants Day because the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India was established on 1 July 1949 by an Act of Parliament.

The Vikram lander of Chandrayaan 3 touched down near the south pole of the Moon on 23 August 2023, making India the first country to land in that region, and the date was declared National Space Day in memory of the achievement.

Hiroshima Day is observed on 6 August, the date in 1945 on which the first atomic bomb used in war was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

The ninth of August is observed as Quit India Movement Day, or August Kranti Diwas, because the movement launched at the Bombay session of the Congress led to mass action from that date in 1942.

International Tiger Day, also called Global Tiger Day, is observed on 29 July every year to draw attention to the conservation of the tiger and of its habitat, and it is a date on which tiger range countries report on their efforts.

National Sports Day is observed on 29 August, the birth anniversary of the hockey player Major Dhyan Chand, who was born in 1905 and was part of the Indian teams that won Olympic gold in 1928, 1932 and 1936.

National Handloom Day falls on 7 August because the Swadeshi Movement was formally launched on that date in 1905 at a meeting in Calcutta, in response to the partition of Bengal.

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.

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.

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 National Film Awards were instituted in 1954 and the first set of awards honoured films released in 1953, which is why the first Best Feature Film award is recorded against the Marathi film Shyamchi Aai for that year.

The Dadasaheb Phalke Award carries the Swarna Kamal, or Golden Lotus, along with a cash prize, a shawl and a certificate, and it is presented at the National Film Awards ceremony.

The Dadasaheb Phalke Award is given to a single person each year for a lifetime of outstanding contribution to the growth and development of Indian cinema, and it is presented along with the National Film Awards.

The Marathi film Shyamchi Aai, directed by P. K. Atre and based on the writing of Sane Guruji, won the first Best Feature Film award at the National Film Awards for the year 1953.

Dhundiraj Govind Phalke is called the father of Indian cinema because he made Raja Harishchandra in 1913, the first full length Indian feature film, and went on to make many more, building the craft of film making in the country almost from nothing.

The National Film Awards are conferred by the Government of India through the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, which appoints the juries for feature films, non feature films and writing on cinema and announces the results each year.