site.btaObservances: December 3

The world:

International Day of Persons with Disabilities;

International Day of No Pesticides.

On this date in Bulgarian history:

1928: Act on Stabilizing the Lev and Monetary Circulation, restoring exchangeability of lev into gold, is gazetted.

1963: Diplomatic relations with UK (established at diplomatic agency level July 23, 1879, upgraded to legation level May 21, 1909, severed September 22, 1915, re-established September 27, 1920, severed March 4, 1941, re-established February 12, 1947) are upgraded to embassy level.

1985: BTA institutes Yossif Herbst Journalism Award to mark 110th years since Herbst's birth and 60 years since his assassination. Herbst was BTA's director from 1913 to 1918.

2006: GERB Party established in Sofia with Boyko Borissov as informal leader. Tsvetan Tsvetanov is elected Chairman. Registered on March 6, 2007.