#OnThisDay, 8 Mar 1914, International Women's Day starts to settle on the date.
The idea emerged at the International Socialist Women’s Conference in 1910, inspired by an American national women's day in February 1909. The conference took up the idea and events began to be held each year, demanding equal rights for women. The first IWD held on 8 March was in 1914 in Germany. The day and date was formally adopted by the UN in 1977.