site.btaToday's Observances: February 9

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Today's
Observances:
February 9


On this date in Bulgarian history:

1923: Alexander Stamboliyski forms second government (in office until June 9, 1923, when brought down by military coup).

1949: Bulgaria becomes member of UNICEF.

1996: Supreme Court repeals sentence against former Communist leader Todor Zhivkov and his former aide Milko Balev.

1998: Bulgaria wins its first Winter Olympics gold medal. Biathlete Ekaterina Dafovska earns the individual women's title in the 15 km event in Nagano, Japan.

1999: Twenty-one Bulgarian doctors and nurses are arrested in Libya in connection with the infection of 393 Libyan children with AIDS in the city of Benghazi the previous year.

2003: Bulgarian scientific base's chapel on Livingston Island, Antarctica, is consecrated.

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