Important Days: 28 September 2026 – World Rabies Day Capsule

Day to remember

28 September – World Rabies Day (theme 2026: Stronger Together). Linked personality: Louis Pasteur. Global goal: Zero by 30. India programmes: NRCP and NAPRE.

Neighbouring observances (revision)

• 27 September – World Tourism Day (UN Tourism / UNWTO; HQ Madrid)
• Fourth Sunday of September – World Rivers Day
• 26 September – World Contraception Day; World Environmental Health Day

Banking note for the same date window: UFBU strike for 28–30 September was deferred after IBA talks; PSBs/RRBs had operated on Sunday 27 September.

Build a mini calendar for late September: 26th (Contraception / Environmental Health), 27th (Tourism; Rivers on the fourth Sunday), 28th (Rabies). Add the banking current affair of the deferred UFBU strike so that static days and dynamic news stay connected in revision notes for SSC and banking prelims.

Also revise Louis Pasteur’s contribution to microbiology beyond rabies, including pasteurisation, as a frequent matching-list theme in state PSC papers.

Keep a one-page revision note with the date, theme or judgment angle, one statutory or institutional name, and one numerical fact. That format matches how SSC CGL and banking prelims mix static GK with current affairs in the same question paper.

Practice MCQs

1. Which important day falls on 28 September?

   (A) World Tourism Day
   (B) World Rabies Day
   (C) World Health Day
   (D) World Environment Day

   Answer: (B) – World Rabies Day.

2. World Tourism Day is observed on:

   (A) 27 September
   (B) 28 September
   (C) 5 June
   (D) 10 December

   Answer: (A) – 27 September.

3. Louis Pasteur is closely associated with the vaccine for:

   (A) Smallpox only
   (B) Rabies
   (C) COVID-19 only
   (D) Malaria only

   Answer: (B) – First successful rabies vaccine.

Source: WHO calendar; standard important-days lists cross-checked for 26–28 September 2026.