International Women's Day was first celebrated on February 28, 1909 in New York, United States (US) and hosted by the US Socialist Party.
The demonstration on 8 March 1917 by women in Petrograd sparked the Russian Revolution.
International Women's Day was officially made a national holiday in Soviet Russia in 1917, and was widely celebrated in both socialist and communist countries.
In 1977, International Women's Day was inaugurated as an annual celebration by the United Nations to fight for women's rights and to realize world peace.
Apocryphal
A story circulating in the internal circle of French columnists, that there was a woman from a textile factory worker performing a demonstration on March 8, 1857 in New York.
The demonstration was conducted with the aim of countering the oppression and low salaries of workers, but the demonstrations were forcibly dispersed by the police.
On March 8, 1907, International Women's Day was inaugurated as a warning against a case that occurred 50 years ago.
Temma Kaplan argues, "it never happened, but many Europeans believe that March 8, 1907 was the beginning of
Event 8 March
In addition to International Women's Day, the 8th of March along the same line also follows the following events:
1126 - After the death of his mother, Urraca, Alfonso VII was crowned King of Castile and León.
1576 - Spanish Conquistador Diego García de Palacio sees for the first time the ruins of the ancient city of Maya, Copán.
1618 - Johannes Kepler discovers law of third planetary motion.
1655 - John Casor becomes the first legally recognized slave in the British colony in North America where crime is not committed.
1658 - The Roskilde Treaty: After suffering a defeat in Northern War (1655-1661), Frederick III, the Danish-Norwegian King was forced to surrender nearly half of his kingdom to Sweden to save the rest.
1702 - Anne Stuart, Mary II's sister, becomes Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
1722 - Safavid dynasty in Iran is defeated by troops from Afghanistan at the Battle of Gulnabad, forcing Iran to become anarchist.
1736 - Nader Shah, founder of the Afsharid Dynasty, was named the Shah of Iran.
1775 - Unknown author, allegedly Thomas Paine, publishes the article "African Slavery in America", the first article in the North American colony that calls for equality of slave rights and the abolition of slavery.
1777 - Regiments from Ansbach and Bayreuth, sent to help Britain in the American War of Independence, rebelled in the city of Ochsenfurt.
1782 - The Gnadenhutten massacre: 93 Native Americans in Gnadenhutten, Ohio, who have converted to Christianity were killed by the Pennsylvania militia in retaliation for attacks by other Indian tribes.
1801 - Second Coalition War: Battle of Abukir, British troops led by Sir Ralph Abercromby landed in Egypt with the aim of halting the French campaign in Egypt and Syria.
1817 - New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) was established.
1844 - King Oscar I descends from the throne of Sweden and Norway.
1862 - American Civil War: Confederate iron warship, CSS Virginia (former USS Merrimack), launched in Hampton Roads, Virginia.
1868 - Sakai Incident: Japanese samurai kill 11 French sailors in Sakai port, Osaka.
1910 - French female aviator Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to obtain a pilot license.
1914 - Inaugural flight of Royal Thai Air Force at Don Muang International Airport, Bangkok.
1916 - World War I: British troops failed to penetrate the siege of Kut (now in Iraq) in the Battle of Dujaila.
1917 - International Women's Day protest at St. Petersburg marks the beginning of February Revolution (February 23 in the Julian calendar).
1920 - Syrian Arab Kingdom, the first modern Arab state, was founded.
1921 - Spanish Prime Minister Eduardo Dato Iradier was shot dead while getting out of the parliament building in Madrid.
1924 - Mining accident kills 172 coal miners near Castle Gate, Utah.
1936 - Daytona Beach Circuit and Road Course for the first time held a stock car oval race.
1937 - Spanish Civil War: The Battle of Guadalajara begins.
1942 - World War II: Dutch East Indies Colonial Government, represented by KNIL Commander Lieutenant General Hein Ter Poorten, officially surrender unconditionally to Japan in Kalijati, Subang, West Java.
1942 - World War II: Japan seizes Rangoon, Burma from England.
1947 - 13,000 Army soldiers of the Republic of China arrived in Taiwan after the 28 February incident and launched the killing of thousands of people, including many elites.
This incident turned into the root of Taiwan's independence movement.
1949 - Mildred Gillars ("Axis Sally") is thrown into prison for treason charges.
1949 - French President Vincent Auriol and former Emperor Bảo Đại signed the Élysée Charter, which gave Vietnam greater independence than France and established the Vietnam State to emulate Vietnam's Democratic Republic led by the Viet Minh.
1950 - The Indonesian Police Service (Pamong Praja) is established.
1957 - Ghana joins UN member.
1963 - Ba'ath Party begins power in Syria in a coup by a group of Syrian Army left officers who call themselves the National Council of Revolutionary Command.
1965 - DPR / MPR Building was established in Jakarta.
1965 - 35,000 US Marine troops became the first US ground troops involved in the Vietnam War.
1971 - This century boxing fight between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali was held at Madison Square Garden, New York. Frazier won the absolute number in the 15-round match.
1974 - Charles de Gaulle International Airport in Paris, France opened.
1979 - Philips exhibits Compact Discs (Compact Disc) to the public for the first time.
1985 - Car bomb aimed at killing Shiite leader Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah exploded in Beirut, Lebanon killing 45 people and injuring 175 others.
Sayyed himself survived.
2003 - Yonif 100 / Raider Kodam Bukit Barisan TNI-AD RI is reactivated.
2004 - The new Constitution is signed by the Iraqi Governing Council.
2014 - Commercial aircraft Boeing 777 Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 crashed and lost in the Indian Ocean as it flew from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
Until now the corpses and bodies of 239 passengers and their crew have not been found.
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