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Important National and international Days in August

  • 1st August – Yorkshire Day; National Mountain Climbing Day
  • First Sunday – International Friendship Day
  • 1st to 7th August – World Breastfeeding Week
  • 6th August – Hiroshima Day
  • 8th August- Quit India Movement Day
  • 9th August – International Day of World Indigenous People ; Nagasaki Day
  • 12th August – International Youth Day
  • 13th August – International Lefthanders Day
  • 14th August – Independence Day of Pakistan
  • 15th August – Indian Independence Day ; National Mourning Day in Bangladesh ; Day of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary
  • 17th August – Independence Day of Indonesia
  • 19th August- World humanitarian Day; Photography Day
  • 20th August – Sadbhavna Diwas ; World Mosquito Day ; Akshay Urja Day in India
  • 23rd August – International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition
  • 26th August- Women’s Equality Day
  • 29th August – National Sports Day
  • 30th August- Small Industries Day
  • 31st August – Malaysia National Day or Hari Merdeka