Important dates
January 15
Army Day (KM Cariappa took control of army from British in 1949)
January 28
Birth anniversary of Lala Lajpat Rai
March 10
CISF raising day (Observed 53rd raising day)
February 1
Indian Coast Guard Day
March 20
International Day of Happiness; World Sparrow day
February 11
International Day of Women and Girls in Science
January 27
International Holocaust Remembrance Day (Largest Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau liberated by Soviet in 1945)
February 21
International Mother Language Day
January 11
Lal Bahadur Shastri Death Anniversary
February 12
Lincoln's Birthday
January 30
Martyrs' Day (Martyrdom of Mahatma Gandhi); World Leprosy Eradication Day
January 9
NRI Day (Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas)
January 24
National Girl Child Day
January 18
National Immunisation Day (Polio Day)
February 28
National Science Day
March 4
National Security Day (Rashtriya Suraksha Diwas)
March 16
National Vaccination Day
January 25
National Voters Day
February 13
National Women's day (Birth anniversary of Sarojini Naidu )
January 12
National Youth Day (Swami Vivekananda Birth Anniversary )
January 23
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose's birth anniversary
March 18
Ordnance Factories Day (India)
March 14
Pi Day; International day of action for rivers
February 8
Safer internet day (Second day of second week of February)
January 4
World Braille Day
February 4
World Cancer Day; National Day of Sri Lanka (Independence day from British in 1948)
February 20
World Day of Social Justice
March 15
World Disabled Day; World Consumer Rights Day (Kennedy addressed issue in 1963)
March 21
World Forestry Day; World Down Syndrome Day; World Poetry Day
February 27
World NGO Day; World Sustainable energy day
March 24
World TB Day
March 27
World Theatre Day
January 6
World War Orphans Day
March 22
World Water Day; Bihar day
February 2
World Wetlands Day (Adoption of Convention on wetlands in 1971 Ramsar, Iran)
March 3
World Wildlife Day
March 1
Zero Discrimination Day; World Civil Defence Day
March 8
international Women's Day; Intl. literacy Day