International Women's Day, celebrated on March 8.

International Women's Day, celebrated on March 8, was from the beginning an expression of the desire of women working to acquire certain rights, however, over time, turned into an occasion of celebration of womanhood and the fair sex, irrespective of religion and race.

Currently one day of joy for all women receiving different flowers and gifts, celebration March 8 was perceived as long a time as they were stated social and political rights of women and the progress made in regard to them.

Formed in a time of great social unrest, International Women's Day was chosen and heritage traditional protest and political activism. In the years before 1910, quite a few women in the developed industrial work. Their jobs, mostly in textiles and household services, however, were subjected to sexual discrimination and were paid more poorly than men. There were trade unions, and from there to the industrial unrest was not only a step.

1848 - takes place in Paris, in his house Balcescu, a meeting of Romanian revolutionaries, it is decided triggering revolution in the country and is drawn revolutionary program.

1917 - A Revolution in Petrograd began which led, on 15 March 1917, the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II.

1945 - Two days after installation Petru Groza government, on March 6, 1945, US President Roosevelt Churchill addressed through a personal and top secret telegram, which is concerned about the installation, by force of a communist government and provide treatment with anti-discrimination Romanians .... In response telegram, the US president, acknowledging mixture Kremlin leadership in appointing a communist government, stated: I think Romania is a good place for us to measure the Russians.

1945 - The Romanian Government Soviet government sent a telegram requesting reintegration Northern Transylvania to Romania, the territory was occupied Hortist as a result of the Vienna Award of 1940. In response telegram, dated 9 March 1945 IV Stalin agrees to reinstall NE Romanian administration in Transylvania. On 13 March 1945, Cluj, held official proclamation of resettlement Romanian government in this part of the country.

1946 - A helicopter was first patented for commercial use.

1968 - In Prague, Czechoslovak students declare their support for the liberalization movement known as the Prague Spring.

1982 - Soviet interplanetary automatic stations Venus-Venus-13 and 14 reach the surface of Venus.


After the Revolution of October 1917 Bolshevik Alexandra Kollontai persuaded Lenin to formalize International Women's Day in the Soviet Union.

Since its emergence in the socialist movement, International Women's Day has become more and more recognition from year to year, came to be celebrated in developed and developing alike.

Thus, 1975 was declared "International Year of the Woman" by the United Nations (UN). Starting this year, International Women's Day has been adopted by many governments of the countries which until then had found neither its existence.

A lot has happened over time Women's Day, one of the things it happening in Iran spectacular in 1982, when women have resorted to one of the most courageous gesture of their existence: they have set aside, all day, the veil covering their face.

Today, Women's Day, popularized more like "Mother's Day" in the communist period is a public holiday in Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, China, Cuba, Georgia, Guinea-Bissau, Eritrea, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Madagascar, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Nepal, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam and Zambia. On the other hand, is celebrated without a public holiday in countries such as Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania and Latvia.

On this day it is customary for men to give women flowers and small gifts in their lives - wives, girlfriends, mothers, daughters and colleagues. In Romania and Bulgaria, retained habits before the fall of communism when, on March 8, Mother's Day, children were gifts mothers, grandmothers, and female teachers of teachers.

In Romania, Mother's Day was instead declared a public holiday since 2010 and is celebrated on the first Sunday of May.