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We collected the important days in October 2016 and provided in a table Format. We hope, it will help you in Competitive exams!!!
Oct 1 2016 | |
| Remember Day | International Day of Older Persons |
| Purpose | To drawing attention to and challenging negative stereotypes and misconceptions about older persons and ageing. |
| Organization | Â UN |
| Theme | Take A Stand Against Ageism |
| Remember Day | World Vegetarian Day |
| Purpose | To brings awareness to the ethical, environmental, health, and humanitarian benefits of a vegetarian lifestyle |
| Organization | International Vegetarian Union |
Oct 2 2016 | |
| Remember Day | International Day of Non-Violence |
| Purpose | To mark the 147th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi |
| Organization | UN, GOI |
Oct 3 2016 | |
| Remember Day | World Habitat Day (First Monday of October) |
| Purpose | To reflect on the state of our cities and towns and the basic human right to adequate shelter. |
| Organization | UN |
| Theme | Housing at the Centre |
Oct 4 2016 | |
| Remember Day | World Animal Day |
| Purpose | To raising the status of animals in order to improve welfare standards around the globe. |
Oct 4 to 10 2016 | |
| Remember Day | World Space Week |
| Purpose | To recognition of two important dates in space history the launch of the first human-made Earth satellite, Sputnik 1, on October 4, 1957; and the signing of the Outer Space Treaty on October 10, 1967. |
| Organization | World Space Week Association (WSWA) |
| Theme | Remote sensing – Enabling Our Future |
Oct 5 2016 | |
| Remember Day | World Teachers Day |
| Purpose | To commemorates teacher organizations worldwide. |
| Organization | UN, UNSECO |
| Theme | Valuing Teachers, Improving their Status |
Oct 7 2016 | |
| Remember Day | World Smile Day(First Friday of October) |
| Purpose | To bring a smile of the faces of people around the world |
Oct 8 2016 | |
| Remember Day | 84th Air Force Day |
| Purpose | To increase the awareness about the importance of Indian air force |
Oct 9 2016 | |
| Remember Day | World Post day |
| Purpose | To commemorating the date for the establishment of Universal Postal Union (UPU) in 1874 in Bern, Switzerland. |
| Organization | UN, UPU |
| Theme | Innovation, Integration and Inclusion |
Oct 10 2016 | |
| Remember Day | World Day Against the Death Penalty |
| Purpose | To raising awareness around the application of the death penalty for terrorism-related offences, to reduce its use. |
| Organization | UN |
| Theme | Terrorism |
| Remember Day | World Mental Health Day |
| Purpose | To bring attention to mental illness and its major effects on peoples’ life worldwide |
| Organization | World Federation for Mental Health, WHO |
| Theme | Dignity in Mental Health – Psychological & Mental Health First Aid for All. |
Oct 11 2016 | |
| Remember Day | International Day of the Girl Child |
| Purpose | To supports more opportunity for girls and increases awareness of gender inequality faced by girls worldwide based upon their gender |
| Organization | UN |
| Theme | Girls’ Progress = Goals’ Progress : A Global Girl Data Movement |
Oct 13 2016 | |
| Remember Day | World Sight Day |
| Purpose | To focus global attention on blindness and vision impairment |
| Organization | Sight First Campaign of Lions Club International Foundation & WHO |
| Theme | Stronger Together |
| Remember Day | International Day for Disaster Reduction |
| Purpose | To promote a global culture of risk-awareness and disaster reduction. |
| Organization | UNISDR |
| Theme | Live To Tell : Raising Awareness, Reducing Mortality |
Oct 14 2016 | |
| Remember Day | International standards day |
| Purpose | To increase awareness of the role that standards play in the global economy. |
| Organization | IEC, ISO and ITU |
| Theme | Standards Build Trust |
Oct 15 2016 | |
| Remember Day | International Day of Rural Women |
| Purpose | To recognizes rural women’s importance in enhancing agricultural and rural development worldwide. |
| Organization | UN |
| Theme | Climate is changing. Food and agriculture must too |
| Remember Day | World Student’s Day |
| Purpose | To mark the importance of India’s former President and great scientist APJ Abdul Kalam |
| Organization | UN |
Oct 15-21 2016 | |
| Remember Day | Safe Motherhood’ Week |
| Purpose | To bring down the ‘Mother Mortality Rate’ ‘MMR’ and ‘Infant Mortality Rate’ or ‘IMR’. |
| Organization | Uttar Pradesh |
Oct 16 2016 | |
| Remember Day | World Food Day |
| Purpose | To heighten public awareness about the interconnection of agriculture, food security and world hunger |
| Organization | UN, Food and Agriculture Organization |
| Theme | Climate is changing. Food and agriculture must too. |
Oct 17 2016 | |
| Remember Day | International Day for the Eradication of Poverty |
| Purpose | To promotes people’s awareness of the need to eradicate poverty and destitution worldwide, particularly in developing countries. |
| Organization | UN |
| Theme | Moving from humiliation and exclusion to participation : Ending poverty in all its forms. |
Oct 20 2016 | |
| Remember Day | World Statistics Day |
| Purpose | To recognize the achievements the global statistics systems at both national and international levels |
| Organization | United Nations Statistical Commission |
| Theme | Better Data, Better Lives |
| Remember Day | World Osteoporosis Day |
| Purpose | To raise global awareness of the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis and metabolic bone disease. |
| Organization | IOF |
| Theme | Love Your Bones – Protect your Future |
Oct 21 2016 | |
| Remember Day | Police Commemoration Day |
| Purpose | To honors the memory of Indian police personnel killed by Chinese soldiers in 1959. |
| Organization | GOI |
Oct 24 2016 | |
| Remember Day | United Nations Day |
| Purpose | To highlight concrete actions people can take to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. |
| Organization | UN |
| Theme | Freedom First |
| Remember Day | World Development Information Day |
| Purpose | To draw attention of worldwide public opinion to development problems and the need to strengthen international cooperation to solve them. |
| Organization | UN |
| Remember Day | World Polio Day |
| Purpose | To commemorate the birth of Jonas Salk, the developer of a vaccine against polio. |
| Organization | WHO |
| Remember Day | 55th raising day of Indo Tibetan Border Police |
| Organization | ITBP |
Oct 27 2016 | |
| Remember Day | World Day for Audiovisual Heritage |
| Purpose | To raise of awareness of the significance of and preservation risks recorded sound and audiovisual documents |
| Organization | UNESCO |
| Theme | It’s Your Story – Don’t Lose It |
Oct 28 2016 | |
| Remember Day | National Ayurveda Day |
| Purpose | To marks birth date of Lord Dhanvantari, which occurs before two days before Diwali on Dhanteras |
| Organization | GOI |
| Theme | Ayurveda for Prevention and Control of Diabetes. |
Oct 29 2016 | |
| Remember Day | International Internet Day |
| Purpose | To remember the event of the sending of the first message, first electronic message which was transferred from one computer to another in 1969 |
| Remember Day | World Stroke Day |
| Purpose | To raise awareness of the prevention and treatment of the condition, and ensure better care and support for survivors |
| Organization | WSO |
| Theme | Â Face the Facts : Stroke is Treatable with the tagline of Livescan improve with better awareness, access, and action. |
Oct 31 2016 | |
| Remember Day | Rashtriya Ekta Diwas(National Unity Day) |
| Purpose | To commemorate the birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. |
| Organization | GOI |
| Theme | Integration of India |
| Remember Day | World Savings Day or World Thrift Day |
| Purpose | To promote the savings all over the World. |
| Organization | International Savings Bank Congress |
| Theme | Grabbing Hold of Your Financial Future |
| Remember Day | World Cities Day |
| Purpose | To promote international community’s interest in global urbanization, push forward cooperation among countries |
| Organization | UN |
| Theme | Inclusive Cities, Shared Development |
Oct 31 to Nov 5 2016 | |
| Remember Day | Vigilance Awareness week |
| Purpose | To promote probity in public life and to achieve a corruption free society |
| Organization | Central Vigilance Commission, GOI |
| Theme | Public participation in promoting integrity and eradicating Corruption |
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