On This Day in Bulgaria

On this day in Bulgarian history: Bulgarians celebrate Baba Marta, and the country marks the spring ritual of exchanging martenitsas.

On this day in Bulgarian history: settlement of reparations began in 1923, and the State Savings Bank was established in 1951.

On this day in Bulgarian history: the Treaty of San Stefano was signed in 1878, and March 3 was designated Bulgaria’s National Day in 1990.

On this day in Bulgarian history: Ruse was liberated from Ottoman rule in 1878, and Bulgaria severed relations with several Allied states in 1941.

On this day in Bulgarian history: Bulgaria’s Parliament held its first secret ballot in 1879, and Rabotnichesko Delo was launched in 1927.

On this day in Bulgarian history: the Bulgarian Literary Society became the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in 1911, and the First Bulgarian Army began the Drava Operation in 1945.

On this day in Bulgarian history: Bulgaria restored diplomatic relations with Austria in 1947, and Levski women’s volleyball won a European Champions Cup in 1964.

On this day in Bulgarian history: Rakovski’s Budoushtnost newspaper appeared in 1864, and a public committee for protecting Rousse’s environment was established in 1988.

On this day in Bulgarian history: Tsar Ivan Asen II won the Battle of Klokotnitsa in 1230, and Georgi Dimitrov was arrested in Berlin in 1933.

On this day in Bulgarian history: the Bulgarian Exarchate decree was signed in 1870, and the deportation of Bulgarian Jews was halted in 1943.

On this day in Bulgarian history: a bomb exploded at the US Legation in Sofia in 1922, and Bulgaria joined CERN in 1999.

On this day in Bulgarian history: Botev Plovdiv football club was established in 1912, and the Earned Landed Property Act was passed in 1946.

On this day in Bulgarian history: the Holy Synod gave museum status to its collection in 1921, and the National Astronomical Observatory opened at Rozhen in 1981.

On this day in Bulgarian history: Bulgaria adopted the Gregorian Calendar Act in 1916, and the Union for the Protection of Bulgarian Nature was established in 1929.

On this day in Bulgarian history: the first postal money order was issued in 1882, and the National Health Insurance Fund began functioning in 1999.

On this day in Bulgarian history: Bulgaria eased post-Neuilly reparations in 1923, and a pioneering nature protection ordinance was gazetted in 1936.

On this day in Bulgarian history: Dimiter Peshev protested the planned deportation of Bulgarian Jews in 1943, and Bulgaria committed to a currency board in 1997.

On this day in Bulgarian history: Bulgaria marks Radio-Engineering Troops Day, and Podkrepa was renamed the Podkrepa Confederation of Labour in 1990.

On this day in Bulgarian history: the Macedonian Committee was established in Sofia in 1895, and Bulgaria’s Macedonian movement gained a legal public organization.

On this day in Bulgarian history: the 17th National Assembly held its first sitting in 1914, and the Plovdiv opera was unveiled in 1953.

On this day in Bulgarian history: the Gregorian calendar law was promulgated in 1916, and Bulgaria gained visa-free short stays in Schengen countries in 2001.

On this day in Bulgarian history: Borisova Gradina was established in 1882, and Sofia held its first film screening in 1897.

On this day in Bulgarian history: Samundzhievo became the town of Orhanie, later Botevgrad, in 1866, and Petko Slaveykov founded the Prosveshtenie charitable brotherhood in 1869.

On this day in Bulgarian history: Dragan Tsankov formed a government in 1880, and Bulgaria reactivated diplomatic relations with the United States in 1959.

On this day in Bulgarian history: the first Social Insurance Act was gazetted in 1924, and the petrochemical works near Pleven opened in 1971.

On this day in Bulgarian history: Bulgarian forces captured Adrianople in 1913, and Bulgaria’s NATO accession protocol was signed in 2003.

On this day in Bulgarian history: Bobovdol Thermal Power Plant was brought on stream in 1975, and Bulgaria and Romania signed a Danube bridge declaration in 2000.

On this day in Bulgarian history: the Association of the Bulgarian Blind was established in 1921, and clashes took place in Kornitsa in 1973 during forced renaming of Bulgarian Muslims.

On this day in Bulgarian history: Bulgaria imposed a moratorium on foreign commercial debt in 1990, and became a full NATO member in 2004.

On this day in Bulgarian history: the Bulgarian Olympic Committee was established in 1923, and Sofia suffered its worst British-US air raid in 1944.

On this day in Bulgarian history: Bulgaria’s first philatelic society was established in 1893, and the National Palace of Culture was inaugurated in Sofia in 1981.