The first International Women’s Day was celebrated.
The day is celebrated to encourage equality between men and women.
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Philips demonstrated the compact disc publicly for the first time.
The United States military banned smoking in the workplace.
Volkswagen's iconic Type 2 Kombi first began production.
The tone poem Don Quixote by Richard Strauss premiered in Cologne, Germany.
The Dutch East Indies colony surrendered the island of Java to Imperial Japanese forces.
