site.btaToday's Observances: Oct. 10

The world:

- World Mental Health Day; 

- National Day of Fiji: Independence Day (1970); 

- National Day of Taiwan: anniversary of the outbreak of the 

Wuchang Uprising (1911); 

- European Day Against the Death Penalty (since 2007). 

On this date in Bulgarian history: 

1945: Diplomatic relations with Czechoslovakia re-established after being severed on June 1, 1939. 

1977: National High School for Ancient Languages and Cultures opens in Sofia.