To marks the day when world’s first atom bomb dropped over the city of Hiroshima.
7 August: National Handloom Day
Last year: 1st Handloom day was celebrated, by Modi.
Why 7 August: Date 7 August was chosen as it was on this day in 1905 that the Swadeshi Movement was formally launched, at a mass-meeting in the Town hall of Calcutta.
8 August: Quit India Movement Day
74th anniversary of Quit India Movement, which was launched by the father of nation, Mahatma Gandhi.
9 August: International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
To promote and protect the rights of the world’s indigenous population.
11 August National Daughter’s Day
To celebrate women’s contribution to family
12 August: International Youth Day
To promote ways to engage them in becoming more actively involved in making positive contributions to the globe
13 August: Organ Donation Day
To motivate normal human beings to donate the organs
19 August: World Humanitarian Day
To pay tribute to aid workers who risk their lives in humanitarian service, and to mobilize people to advocate for a more humane world.
20 August: World Mosquito Day
Why August 20: It marks the historic discovery by British doctor Sir Ronald Ross in 1897 that female Anopheles mosquitoes transmit malaria between humans.
29 August: International Day Against Nuclear Tests
The International Day against Nuclear Tests was instituted by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) by unanimously adopting resolution 64/35 on 2 December 2009.
The resolution was initiated by the Kazakhstan with support of large number of sponsors and cosponsors with a view to commemorate the closure of the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test site on 29 August 1991.
29th August: National Sports Day
Why 29 August: On this day, the legendary hockey player was born on 29 August 1905 in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh.
