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Asian Games 2026

Edition: 20th   

Venue: Japan

About Asian Games

Held: every four years

Abbreviation: Asiad

Motto: Ever Onward

First event: 1951 (India)

 Hockey introduced: 1958

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 International Day of Happiness is celebrated on 20 March. 

Theme 2021: Happiness For All, Forever

Theme 2022: Be calm, Be wise and Be Kind

Theme 2023: Be Mindful, Be Grateful, Be Kind 

Theme 2024: Reconnecting for Happiness: Building Resilient Communities

Theme 2025: Caring and Sharing

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World Interfaith Harmony Week is observed during the first week of February.

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DECEMBER 12 is Universal Health Coverage Day. It commemorates the resolution on ‘Global Health and Foreign Policy’, adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2012.

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World Day for Audiovisual Heritage is celebrated on 27 October. 

Theme 2020: Your window to the world

Theme 2021: A window to the world

Theme 2022: Enlisting documentary heritage to promote inclusive, just and peaceful societies

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World Osteoporosis Day is observed annually on October 20th for raising global awareness and treatment of osteoporosis and metabolic bone disease.

Theme 2020: That`s Osteoporosis

Theme 2021: Take action for bone health

Theme 2022: Step up for bone Health

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World Statistics Day is celebrated on 20 October.

It was first celebrated on 20 October 2010.

Theme 2022: Data for a changing world.

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• International Day of the Girl Child is observed on 11th October.
• Theme 2021: Digital generation. Our generation
• Theme 2022: 
  Our time is now—our rights, our future.
• Theme 2023: Invest in Girls' Rights: Our Leadership, Our Well-being .

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• Since 1980, the United Nations World Tourism Organization has celebrated World Tourism Day as international observances on September 27.
• Theme 2020: Tourism and rural development
• Theme 2021: Tourism for Inclusive Growth

• Theme 2022: Rethinking Tourism
• Theme 2023: Tourism and green investments
• Theme 2024: Tourism and Peace
  

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