Important Days
International Moon Day (IMD)
- The day is observed on July 20 every year to honour the anniversary of the first landing of humans on the
- The day was declared on 9 December 2021 by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).
- The first landing of humans on Moon was accomplished by the Apollo 11 mission during which Neil Armstrong and Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin set foot on the Moon’s surface in
National Flag Adoption Day 2023
- The day is observed on July 22 to commemorate the adoption of the National Flag by the Constituent Assembly in 1947.
- The National Flag was first designed in 1923 by by Pingali Venkayya.
