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Ahead of Women's Day, the national carrier Air India operated what it claimed to be the world's longest non-stop flight where the entire flight operations were handled by women, as part of International Women's Day celebrations. The flight, from Delhi to San Francisco, covered a distance of around 14,500 kilometers in around 17 hours. [119]
Theresa Malkiel established the day in 1909 as head of the Woman's National Committee of the Socialist Party of America.. Woman's Day, also known as National Woman's Day (a retronym in regard to the later international observance), was a commemoration conceived by labor activist Theresa Malkiel, and organized principally in New York City by the Socialist Party of America on the last Sunday in ...
National Women's Day (Zulu: Usuku Lwabesifazane, Afrikaans: Nasionale Vrouedag) is a South African public holiday celebrated annually on 9 August. The day commemorates the 1956 march of approximately 20,000 women to the Union Buildings in Pretoria to petition against the country's pass laws that required South Africans defined as "black" under The Population Registration Act to carry an ...
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In 1987, after being petitioned by the National Women's History Project, Congress passed Pub. L. 100-9 which designated the month of March 1987 as “Women’s History Month". Women of the Year ...
The National Girls and Women in Sports Day (NGWSD) is an annual day of observance held during the first week of February to acknowledge the accomplishments of female athletes, recognize the influence of sports participation for women and girls, and honor the progress and advocation for equality for women in sports.
The act was finally passed in Congress in 1920 after much commotion and action, giving women nationwide the right to vote. Fifty-one years later in 1971, August 26 was first recognized as National ...
National Woman's Day, a predecessor of International Women's Day in the United States; National Women's Day, celebrated in South Africa on August 9; National Women's Day, celebrated in Bolivia on October 11; National Women's Day, celebrated in East Timor on November 3; The Combined Holidays of Women's Day and Children's Day, celebrated in ...