Women's rights day 19th of June - 109 years old

Women in Iceland celebrate the suffrage at Austurvellir in downtown Reykjavík on June 19th, 1915 (picture gotten from the magazine Sagnir (1992:1, p. 32).

Dear patrons! Today 19th of June is the Women's rights day and should be celebrated. Icelandic women were among the first in the world to gain the right to vote.

In the newspaper Morgunblaðið (June 18th, 1916) it says: "Last year on July 7th, same day as alþingi (national assembly) came together, women in Reykjavik had a big festival to remember this remarkable event in the country's history, that women earned the suffragette by changing the constitution 19th of June 1915 and were eligible for Alþingi."

Wikipedia mentions that women had to be 40 or older. Kristján X, king of Denmark, signed this new constitution for Iceland but the fight had been ongoing since 1885 even though the first public demand for the suffragette didn't come until 1895.

The Municipal Library of Akureyri offers variety of reading material related to Icelandic women (some in English even), for example biologies of women or bestsellers by women (but books don't always have to be bestsellers to be interesting).

Congratulations, dear women in Iceland!