🎉 International Women's Day
Where: United Nations Headquarters, New York, USA
Nearby on the globe: Chrysler Building → 🌍 Open the 3D globe
📅 On This Day: March 8
March 8: International Women's Day. 8 March is International Women's Day. It began more than 100 years ago when women called for fairer work and the right to vote, and the United Nations has marked it since 1975. In Italy, people give each other yellow mimosa flowers on this day.
✨ More events on this day
- 1822 💡 Polish inventor Ignacy Łukasiewicz was born; he made the first modern kerosene lamp, which lit homes and streets before electric lights.
- 1910 🧭 French aviator Raymonde de Laroche became the first woman in the world to receive a pilot's licence, a fitting story for International Women's Day.
- 1979 🚀 Pictures from Voyager 1 proved that Jupiter's moon Io has active volcanoes, the first ones ever found beyond Earth.
🧠 Question of the day
Which flower do people give in Italy on this day?
- Red roses
- White chrysanthemums
- Yellow mimosa
Show the answer
Answer: Yellow mimosa
Questions
What happened on March 8?
March 8: International Women's Day. It happened in United Nations Headquarters, New York, USA.
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