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Important National & International Days in August

  1. 1st August – Yorkshire Day; National Mountain Climbing Day
  2. First Sunday ( 2nd August in 2020 ) – International Friendship Day
  3. 1st to 7th August – World Breastfeeding Week
  4. 6th August – Hiroshima Day
  5. 8th August- Quit India Movement Day
  6. 9th August – International Day of World Indigenous People ; Nagasaki Day
  7. 12th August – International Youth Day
  8. 13th August – International Lefthanders Day
  9. 14th August – Independence Day of Pakistan
  10. 15th August – Indian Independence Day ; Sanskrit Day ( Shraban Poornima on Full Moon day as per Hindu Calender, so this date can vary every year ) ; National Mourning Day in Bangladesh ; Day of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary
  11. 17th August – Independence Day of Indonesia
  12. 19th August- World humanitarian Day; Photography Day
  13. 20th August – Sadbhavna Diwas ; World Mosquito Day ; Akshay Urja Day in India
  14. 23rd August – International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition
  15. 26th August- Women’s Equality Day
  16. 29th August – National Sports Day
  17. 30th August- Small Industries Day
  18. 31st August – Malaysia National Day or Hari Merdeka

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