The earliest reported Women's Day event in 1909 was held in which city?

The earliest reported Women's Day event in 1909 was held in New York City. Known at the time as National Woman's Day, it was organized principally by the Socialist Party of America and centered on demands for women's suffrage and improved rights for working women.

The observance took place on February 28, 1909, with meetings in several New York locations. It emerged from the socialist and labor movements rather than from the later United Nations-era celebration. The event helped establish a model that could combine political campaigning, public speeches, and working-class organizing.

New York City is sometimes confused with the European origins of International Women's Day. In 1910, delegates at an international socialist women's conference in Copenhagen proposed an annual women's day, and the first major international observances followed in 1911. Another common mix-up is the often-repeated story of an 1857 New York garment strike; historians generally regard that story as a later fabrication, not the documented origin of the 1909 event.