Days And Years — Part 1 MCQs with Explanations

International Workers' Day, also known as Labour Day in most countries and often referred to as May Day, is a celebration of labourers and the working classes that is promoted by the international labour movement and occurs every year on 1 May.

In 1992, the Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award was instituted by the Indian National Congress Party. Since his death, 21 May has been declared Anti-Terrorism Day in India.

Rajiv Gandhi's birthday is celebrated as Sadbhavana Diwas on 20 August.

World Population Day is observed every year on 11 July. The main purpose of this day is to draw attention towards the issues arising out of rising population across the globe.

Army Day is celebrated on 15 January every year in India as it is on this historic day that General K. M. Cariappa became the first Indian to take charge of the Indian Army in 1949.

A centenary is the hundredth anniversary of some event. Gandhi arrived in South Africa in 1893, so the Centenary was celebrated in 1993.

National Maritime Day is celebrated every year on 5 April to commemorate the maiden voyage of the first Indian flag merchant vessel 'S.S LOYALTY' from Mumbai to London, on 5 April 1919.

'Teachers' Day' is observed on 5 September. It is the birth anniversary of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.

World Environment Day is observed on 5 June every year. The purpose of World Environment Day is to spread awareness about the threat to the environment due to rising pollution levels and climate change.

Across the country, Children's Day is celebrated every year on November 14, on the occasion of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru's birthday.

The United Nations declared 1993 as a year of the indigenous people.

The year 1991 was observed in India as the year of Tourism.

World Food Day is an international day celebrated every year worldwide on 16 October to commemorate the date of the founding of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in 1945.

The International Drinking Water Decade or International Decade of Water or International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade, now known as The First Water Decade was the ten year period 1981 - 1990 designated by the United Nations to bring attention and support for clean water and sanitation worldwide.

The year 1995 was observed as poverty eradication year by SAARC.

28 February recalls the notable invention "Raman Effect" by India's greatest scientist C. V. Raman. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for this discovery.

The year 1985 was proclaimed by the United Nations as the International Youth Year (IYY). It was held to focus attention on issues of concern to and relating to youth.

The festival is called in Arabic 'Eid milad-un-Nabi'. However, it is to be emphasized that practicing this festival is not per religion; as the two festivals after end of Ramadan and that during hajj. Celebrating prophet Muhammad birthday, although not per religion, but it is not forbidden. It is considered as good occasion to remind Muslims with the prophet Muhammad teachings and morals and to renew the intention of following and adopting prophet Muhammad guides.

Rosh Hashanah, literally meaning "head of the year", is the Jewish New Year.

The UN General Assembly has proclaimed 1981 as the International Year of Disabled Persons (IYDP).

The date was chosen to honour the United Nations General Assembly's adoption and proclamation, on 10 December 1948, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the first global enunciation of human rights and one of the first major achievements of the new United Nations.

International Literacy Day is an international observance, celebrated each year on 8 September, that was declared by UNESCO on 26 October 1966 at the 14 th session of UNESCO's General Conference.

Hindi Diwas is celebrated on 14 September as on this day the Constituent Assembly of India had adopted Hindi written in Devanagri script in 1949 as the official language of the Republic of India.

India chose 15 September to celebrate National Engineer's Day in order to pay tribute to one of the most visionary and eminent civil engineers the country has had, Sir M. Visvesvaraya.

The International Day of Democracy is celebrated around the world on 15 September each year. It was established through a resolution passed by the UN General Assembly in 2007, encouraging governments to strengthen and consolidate democracy.

The second president of India, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, was born on 5 September, 1888. This day has been celebrated as Teachers' Day since 1962.

World Teachers' Day is celebrated on 5 October every year in the whole world to commemorate the anniversary of the adoption of the ILO/UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers in 1966.

9 January is celebrated as Non - Residential Indian Day.

National Youth Day, also known as Vivekananda Jayanti, is celebrated on 12 January, being the birthday of Swami Vivekananda.

Army Day is celebrated on 15 January every year in India as it is on this historic day that General K. M. Cariappa became the first Indian to take charge of the Indian Army in 1949.

The National Voters' Day has been celebrated on 25 January every year since 2011, all across the country to mark the foundation day of Election Commission of India, i.e. 25 January 1950.

The Constitution of India, which was adopted by the Constituent Assembly on 26 November, 1949, came into effect on 26 January, 1950. Therefore 26 January is celebrated as Republic day of India.

World Wetlands Day is celebrated internationally each year on 2 February. It marks the anniversary of the signing of the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar Convention) in Ramsar, Iran, on 2 February 1971.

Every year World Cancer Day is celebrated on 4 February.

International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation is a United Nations-sponsored annual awareness day that takes place on 6 February as part of the UN's efforts to eradicate female genital mutilation.

World Radio Day is celebrated on 13 February to raise awareness about the importance of Radio. In several countries, it is the primary source for providing information.

On 26 November 2007, the General Assembly declared that, starting from the sixty - third session of the General Assembly, 20 February will be celebrated annually as the World Day of Social Justice.

International Mother Language Day or Matribhasha Diwas is observed every year on 21 February to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism around the world. The idea to celebrate International Mother Language Day first came from Bangladesh.

The World Thinking Day is celebrated every year around the world on 22 February by Girl Scouts and Girl Guides.

National Science Day is celebrated in India on 28 February each year to mark the discovery of the Raman effect by Indian physicist Sir C. V. Raman on 28 February 1928.