The International Women’s Day is being celebrated each year on March 8.
It used to be called the International Working Women’s Day and this event is a commemoration of the incident in 1908 were 129 women died. It was said that these women are factory workers who have been demanding better pay, shorter work hours, voting rights, etc.
To avoid publicity, the owner of the factory locked them up and fire broke down which caused the death of the 129 women.