site.btaToday'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.