Today , March 8, 2010, marks the 'annual Women's Day or International Women's Day. The Italian symbol chosen to symbolize the celebration is the mimosa (picture).
Date Women's Day, fell the 'March 8, 1917 on the same day as the women of St. Petersburg went down in protest to end the War (pictured below). The tsar sent some Cossacks to quell the protest but they did not intervene.
The first festival was held in Italy in 1922 under 
request of the Italian Communist Party and has since continued to celebrate it in the same date.
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