THE DAY IN HISTORY · MARCH 8
March 8 in history
What happened on March 8: 1 moment from the Maps of History atlases, in 1927, each linked to the map that shows it.
— Hujum unveiling campaign
8 Mar 1927 — On International Women’s Day, thousands of women in Samarkand, then the Uzbek capital, and other cities cast off and burned their paranji veils in a party campaign called the hujum (“assault”). A violent backlash followed, in which hundreds of unveiled women were murdered.
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