History of "International Women’s Day"

The pages of history states that the first National Woman's Day was marked in the United States on Feb 28. It was the Socialist Party of America which had observed this day in honour of the 1908 garment workers’ strike in New York, where women had raised their voice of protest against working conditions.

However, it was the Copenhagen initiative for which the International Women's Day was marked for the first time (19 March) in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland.

And finally March 8 was chosen globally to be observed as the Women's Day