site.btaToday's Observances: August 10

The world:

- National Day of Ecuador: Independence Day (1809).

On this date in Bulgarian history:

1882: Bulgaria's first organized kindergarten opens in Svishtov.

1888: Bulgarian State acquires 224 km-long Ruse-Varna railway (Bulgaria's first and only at that time, built by British company Gladstone & Berkeley Bros. in 1863-1865) for 2 million pounds (proceeds of this country's first government loan, contracted from Great Britain under protocol signed on same date).

1915: Pilot Radoul Milkov successfully test-flies an airplane designed by 19-year-old mechanic Assen Jordanoff. Beginning of aircraft engineering in Bulgaria.

1961: Diplomatic relations established with Ghana.

1971: Bishop Konstantin Preslavski University of Shumen, Northeastern Bulgaria, established.

1974: Diplomatic relations established with Thailand.