The first International Women’s Day was celebrated.
The day is celebrated to encourage equality between men and women.
Source
The Dutch East Indies colony surrendered the island of Java to Imperial Japanese forces.
Volkswagen's iconic Type 2 Kombi first began production.
Philips demonstrated the compact disc publicly for the first time.
The tone poem Don Quixote by Richard Strauss premiered in Cologne, Germany.
The world's richest tennis player, Martina Navratilova, became the first to make $10 million.
