March 8 is International Women’s Day. International Women’s Day was first observed in the 1910s, in various countries, and 1911 has been chosen as the recognized starting year — which means this year is the centenary of the first widespread observance. Flickr Commons happens to be especially rich for public events of the 1910s, so here’s a suffragette slideshow with images from across the Commons, just for the occasion:

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