Important Days & Dates 2020 : List of Important National & International Days to Remember in October

There are several Important Days to Remember in the Month of October. Some are them are not that famous, but there are some famous days in October. There is are certain trick to remember important days and Important Dates. Some of them are National Days and some of them are International Days celebrated all around the world. 

Important Days 2020: Famous Days in October

Let's see what are the Important Days and Dates in 2020 you should remember:

Famous Event of October
Name of the Event	Date
International Day for the Elderly	1 October
Gandhi Jayanthi and International Day of Non-Violence	2 October
World Animal Welfare Day	4 October
Indian Air Force Day	8 October
World Post Office Day	9 October
National Post Day	10 October
World Mental Health Day	10 October
National Girl Child Day	11 October
International Day of Natural Disaster Reduction	13 October
World Standards Day	14 October
World Students Day	15 October
World Food Day	16 October
World Development Information Day	16 October
World Thrift Day	30 October
National Unity Day	31 October
World Sight Day	October (2nd Thursday)
World Habitat Day	October(first Monday)

October 1: International Day for the Elderly

This day is special for Elder people or a senior citizen all over the world. In some countries, some notable people such as politician motivational speakers place their speeches of this day and another hand on radios television or newspaper publish about the day with various issues on senior citizen-facing. We should make our society as great as any senior citizen will not face any problem or else.

 

October 2: International Day of Non-Violence

We all know that the day second of October  is a Birth Anniversary of Mohan Karamchand Gandhi well known as the father of the nation.

On 15 June 2007 The United Nations (UN) marked the day as Non-Violence day on behalf of   Mohan Karamchand Gandhi.

 

October (First Monday): World Habitat Day

The second Monday of the October world celebrates the day as World Habitat Day to promote the idea that everyone deserves a healthy and a decent place and we should respect clean our place, more than the 30-year world celebrating this day.

 

October 4: World Animal Welfare Day

The planet is for every living animal but few groups of people destroying this balance for there profit and this impacting our nature so this day held because of that to make more awareness among the public.

 

October 8: Indian Air Force Day

October 8 is the birth anniversary of the IAF’s and at 2020 they step in an 88th birthday anniversary, the day established by Indian the government in 1932.

 

October 9: World Post Office Day

In 1874, the Universal Postal Union marked this day as a World Post Office Day. In Tokyo, The UPU Congress declared it very clearly to give more importance to this field. 

 

 

October 10: National Post Day and World Mental Health Day

World psychological state Day is a world day for global psychological state education, awareness and advocacy against social stigma. It was first celebrated in 1992 at the initiative of the planet Federation for psychological state, a worldwide psychological state organization with members and contacts in more than 150 countries.

 

October 11: National Girl Child Day

In many states of our nation, there were lots of people demanding a boy as a child for several financial reasons so they killed the girl infant in an illegal way. That’s why the ministry of girl and child development and under the government it was started in 2008. The main point of view is to spread awareness among people.

 

October 2nd Thursday: World Sight Day

Every year the 2nd Thursday of October observe this as World Sight Day. The motive of the day was to draw more attention to blindness and vision impairment. It was first established by the SightFirstCampaign in 2000.

 

October 13: International Day of Natural Disaster Reduction

International Day for Disaster reduction is the theme for International Day for Disaster reduction 2019 is “Reduce disaster damage to critical infrastructure and disruption of basic services”.

 

October 14: World Standards Day

14 October was specifically chosen to mark the date, in 1946, when delegates from 25 countries first gathered in London and decided to make a world organization focused on facilitating standardization. Even though ISO was formed one year later, it wasn't until 1970 that the primary World Standards Day was celebrated.

 

 

October 15: World Students Day and World White Cane Day

World Students’ Day held on 15 October, It was Announced by APJ Abdul Kalam Ajada and preetham.

This day especially for those who are blind. But they are also capable of what normal people also do in our regular life so this day is a symbol of freedom independence and confidence.

 

October 16: World Food Day

The main motive of the day is to increase the awareness of the food. Globally many people suffer from lack of healthy food. So, In 1945 under the Food Agriculture Organization(FAO) of the UN.

 

October 24:World Development Information Day

In the year of 1972, World Development Information Day  was surely declared by the United Nations General Assembly and a major coincidence is United Nation Day also on that day.

 

October 30: World Savings Day

 

It was founded as 31st october will be known as World Savings Day. The Italian Professor Filippo Ravizza declared today the "International Saving Day" on the Judgment Day of the congress.

 

October 31: National Unity Day

National Unity Day is celebrated on 31st October every year , it was established in 2014, the same day also the birth anniversary of Sardar Patel who was a freedom fighter. Next, he worked with our government and maintained an important role. 

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These were some Important days in Indian History as well as some Famous days in November basis both National and International.