Dear Aspirant,
We collected the important days in August 2016 and provided in a table Format. We hope, it will help you in Competitive exams!!!
August 1 to 7 2016 | |
| Remember Day | World Breast Feeeding week |
| Purpose | To support women to combine breastfeeding and work |
| Organization | WABA, WHO and UNICEF |
| Theme | on raising awareness of the links between breastfeeding and the Sustainable Development Goals |
August 6 2016 | |
Remember Day | Hiroshima Day & Anti Nuclear Day |
| Purpose | To marks the day when world’s first atom bomb dropped over the city of Hiroshima. |
| Organization | Japan |
August 7 2016 | |
| Remember Day | Handloom Day |
| Purpose | To commemorate the celebration of aesthetics and indigenous talent. |
| Organization | India |
August 8 2016 | |
| Remember Day | Quit India Movement |
| Purpose | 74th anniversary of Quit India Movement, which was launched by the father of nation, Mahatma Gandhi. |
| Organization | India |
August 9 2016 | |
| Remember Day | International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples |
| Purpose | To promote and protect the rights of the world’s indigenous population. |
| Organization | UN |
| Theme | Indigenous Peoples’ Right to Education |
| Remember Day | Nagasaki Day |
| Purpose | To remember the day when Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki |
| Organization | Japan |
August 10 2016 | |
| Remember Day | World Bio-Fuel Day |
| Purpose | To create awareness about non fossil-fuels (Green Fuels). |
| Organization | NGOs |
August 11 2016 | |
| Remember Day | National Daughter’s Day |
| Purpose | To celebrate women’s contribution to family |
| Organization | India |
August 12 2016 | |
| Remember Day | International Youth Day |
| Purpose | To promote ways to engage them in becoming more actively involved in making positive contributions to the globe |
| Organization | UN |
| Theme | The Road to 2030: Eradicating Poverty and Achieving Sustainable Consumption and Production |
| Remember Day | World Elephant Day |
| Purpose | To create awareness of the urgent plight of African and Asian elephants. |
| Organization | Elephant Reintroduction Foundation |
August 13 2016 | |
| Remember Day | Organ Donation Day |
| Purpose | To motivate normal human beings to donate the organs |
| Organization | India |
August 14 2016 | |
| Remember Day | Pakistan’s Independence Day |
| Organization | Pakistan |
August 15 2016 | |
| Remember Day | India’s Independence Day |
| Organization | India |
August 19 2016 | |
| Remember Day | World Photography Day |
| Purpose | To celebrate the 177-year-old journey of photography since 2010 |
| Remember Day | World Humanitarian Day |
| Purpose | To recognize humanitarian personnel and those who have lost their lives working for humanitarian causes and honors the workers who made promotion of the humanitarian cause. |
| Organization | UN |
| Theme | One Humanity |
August 20 2016 | |
| Remember Day | Sadbahavana Divas or Harmony Day |
| Purpose | To commemorate the 72nd birth anniversary of the former Prime Minister of India named Rajiv Gandhi. |
| Organization | India |
| Remember Day | World Mosquito Day |
| Purpose | A commemoration of British doctor Sir Ronald Ross’s discovery in 1897 that female mosquitoes transmit malaria between humans |
August 23 2016 | |
| Remember Day | International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition |
| Purpose | To memorialize the transatlantic slave trade. |
| Organization | UNESCO |
August 29 2016 | |
| Remember Day | International Day against Nuclear Tests |
| Purpose | To commemorate the decision by Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev to shut the Semipalatinsk Test Site down on August 29, 1991. |
| Organization | UN |
| Remember Day | National Sports Day |
| Purpose | To marks the birthday of the hockey player Dhyan Chand |
| Organization | India |
August 30 2016 | |
| Remember Day | International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances |
| Purpose | To draw attention to the fate of individuals imprisoned at places and under poor conditions unknown to their relatives and/or legal representatives |
| Organization | UN |
| Remember Day | Small Industry Day |
| Purpose | To present requirements to industry representatives for weapons or vehicles. |
| Organization | India |
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