site.btaToday's Observances: February 27

The world:

World Anti-Bullying Day;

National Day of the Dominican Republic: Independence Day (1844).

On this date in Bulgarian history:

1870: Sultan Abdulaziz issues a decree restoring the Bulgarian Orthodox Church as a Bulgarian Exarchate.

1897: Bulgaria's first public film show takes place in Rousse (on the Danube).

1934: Communist functionary Georgi Dimitrov and co-defendants Blagoi Popov and Vassil Tanev released from Berlin's Moabit Prison after acquittal in the February 27, 1933 Reichstag fire trial in Leipzig.

2003: The Council of Ministers approves a letter of intent and a schedule of reforms in connection with Bulgaria's accession to NATO.

2009: Southeastern Europe's first robotized oncogynecology clinic is inaugurated at the Medical University of Pleven (North Central Bulgaria).