Important Days of the Year- April and May

April
Day of the Month	Event	Extra Info
7th Apr	World Health Day	In 1948, the WHO held the First World Health Assembly. The Assembly decided to celebrate 7 April of each year, with effect from 1950, as the World Health Day. The World Health Day is held to mark WHO's founding, and is seen as an opportunity by the organization to draw worldwide attention to a subject of major importance to global health each year. It is organised by WHO every year.
17th Apr	World Hemophilia Day	World Hemophilia Day was started in 1989 with the support of World Federation of Hemophilia(WFH). The date of 17th april was chosen to honor Frank Schnabel, the founder of WFH, whose birthday falls on the same day.
18th Apr	World Heritage Day or International Day for Monuments and Sites	The first World Heritage Say was observed on 18th April, 1982 by the International Council On Monuments and Sites(ICOMOS), in Tunisia and was approved in 1983 by UNESCO. The day marks the necessity of protecting the historical monuments and sites located in every part of the world by making collective efforts at the international level. Read More >>
21st Apr	Civil Services Day	The first Civil Service Day was observed in the year 2006. The day is observed by all Civil Services to re-dedicate and re-commit themselves to the cause of the people. Read More >>
22nd Apr	World Earth Day	Also known as Earth Day, it is being celebrated across the world since 1970. The first Earth Day was celebrated on  21st March, 1970. John McConnell proposed the idea of Earth Day, to be celebrated on the Vernal Equinox, at a UNESCO conference on Environment in 1969. A month later a separate Earth Day was founded by United States Senator Gaylord Nelson as an environmental teach-in first held on April 22, 1970. Read More >>
24th Apr	National Panchayati Raj Day or National Local Self-Government day	The day is observed to mark the passing of the Constitution (73rd Amendment) Act, 1992 that came into force on 24th April 1993. The first National Panchayati Raj Day was inaugurated by PM Manmohan Singh in 2010. On the day, the best performing Gram Panchayats and Gram Sabhas are honoured with Panchayat Sashaktikaran Award and Rashtriya Gaurav Gram Sabha Award.
25th Apr	World Malaria Day	World Malaria Day was established in May 2007 by the 60th session of the World Health Assembly, WHO's decision-making body. The day was established to provide "education and understanding of malaria" and spread information on "year-long intensified implementation of national malaria-control strategies, including community-based activities for malaria prevention and treatment in endemic areas." Prior to the establishment of WMD, Africa Malaria Day was held on April 25. Africa Malaria Day began in 2001, one year after the historic Abuja Declaration was signed by 44 malaria-endemic countries at the African Summit on Malaria.
29th Apr	International Dance Day or World Dance Day	International Dance Day was introduced in 1982 by the International Dance Council (CID, Conseil International de la Danse), a UNESCO partner NGO. The date is not linked to a particular person or a particular form of dance, although it's also the day when the French dancer and ballet master Jean-Georges Noverre was born. The main purpose of Dance Day events is to attract the attention of the wider public to the art of dance.
May
Day of the Month	Event	Extra Info
1st May	May Day or Labour Day	International Workers' Day, also known as Labour Day, is a celebration of labourers and the working classes that is promoted by the international labour movement, anarchists, socialists, and communists and occurs every year on May Day, 1st May, an ancient European spring holiday. The date was chosen for International Workers' Day by the Second International to commemorate the Haymarket affair, which occurred in Chicago on 4 May 1886. Read More >>
3rd May	World Press Freedom Day	World Press Freedom Day was proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in December 1993, following the recommendations of UNESCO’s General Conference in 1991. The aim is to raise awareness of the importance of freedom of the press and remind governments of their duty to respect and uphold the right to freedom of expression enshrined under Article 19 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It also marks the anniversary of the Declaration of Windhoek, a statement of free press principles put together by African newspaper journalists in 1991. On this day, UNESCO confers the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize on a deserving individual, organization or institution that has made an outstanding contribution to the defence and/or promotion of press freedom anywhere in the world. Created in 1997, the Prize is named in honour of Guillermo Cano Isaza, a Colombian journalist who was assassinated in front of the offices of his newspaper, El Espectador, in Bogotá, on 17 December 1986.
First Tuesday of  May	World Asthma Day	World Asthma Day is an annual event organized by the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) to improve asthma awareness and care around the world.
11th May	National Technology Day	National Technology Day is celebrated every year on May 11, to mark Indian technological advancement. The first, indigenous aircraft “Hansa-3” was test flown at Bangalore on this day. Not only this, India also performed successful test firing of the Trishul missile on the same day. India also executed five nuclear tests, called the Shakti, which was carried out at Pokhran, in Rajasthan on  May 11, 1998.
12th May	International Nurses Day	The International Council of Nurses (ICN) has been celebrating this day since 1965, to mark the contributions nurses make to society. 12 May was chosen to celebrate the day as it is the anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale, who is widely considered the founder of modern nursing. Read More >>
15th May	International Day of Families	The Day was proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in 1993 with resolution A/RES/47/237 and reflects the importance the international community attaches to families. The International Day provides an opportunity to promote awareness of issues relating to families and to increase knowledge of the social, economic and demographic processes affecting families.The first such day was observed on May 15, 1994.
21st May	Anti-Terrorism Day	The day is celebrated to mark the Death Anniversary of former Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi, who was assasinated at an election rally near Chennai, by a suicide bomber from the LTTE on 21st May, 1991. The Day is observed to generate awareness in the country among all sections of people, about the danger of terrorism and violence and its effect on the people, society and the country as a whole. Every Year Union Home Ministry administers the Anti-Terror pledge to Government employees.
22nd May	International Day for Biological Diversity	From its creation by the Second Committee of the UN General Assembly in 1993 until 2000, it was held on December 29 to celebrate the day the Convention on Biological Diversity went into effect. On December 20, 2000, the date was shifted to commemorate the adoption of the Convention on May 22, 1992, by the Nairobi Final Act,  at the Rio Earth Summit.
29th May	International Day of UN Peacekeepers	First celebrated in 2003, the date, May 29, marks the anniversary of the creation of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) in 1948 to monitor the ceasefire after the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, which was the first ever UN peacekeeping mission. The day was established to honour the memory of the UN Peacekeepers who lost their lives in the cause of peace and pay tribute to  all the men and women who have served and continue to serve in United Nations peacekeeping operations for their high level of professionalism, dedication, and courage. On this day, the Dag Hammarskjold Medal is awarded posthumously to the Peacekeepers, who lost their lives while serving in the cause of peace, during the preceding year.
31st May	World No Tobacco Day	The member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) created World No Tobacco Day in 1987. It is intended to encourage a 24-hour period of abstinence from all forms of tobacco consumption around the globe and draw attention to the widespread prevalence of tobacco use and to negative health effects. Read More >>