Practice MCQ Questions and answers on Days and Years-GK

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.