site.btaToday's Observances: March 30-31

March 30

The world:

- Land Day in Palestinian National Authority.

On this date in Bulgarian history:

1909: Trade Union of Miners is set up.

1923: Bulgarian Olympic Committee is established. Organization was disbanded in September 1944 and re-established in 1952.

1935: Chemical warfare company is formed by order of Minister of War: first chemical warfare protection unit in Bulgarian armed forces.

1944: Worst British-US air raid of Sofia during WW II kills 139 people and destroys 3,575 buildings.

1998: Foreign Minister Nadezhda Mihaylova presents Bulgaria's National Strategy for Accession to the EU at meeting of foreign ministers of EU Member States and associated countries in Brussels.

2006: National Assembly adopts amendments to Bulgaria's Constitution.

2007: The 40th National Assembly adopts the Medicinal Products in Human Medicine Act, which sets the functions of the Bulgarian Drug Agency.

March 31

The world:

Malta: Freedom Day (withdrawal of last British troops from Malta in 1979).

On this date in Bulgarian history:

1893: Bulgaria's first philatelic society is established in Plovdiv.

1901: Two quakes (measuring 7.2 and 7.1 on Richter Scale) strike Cape Kaliakra and Shabla (Northeastern Bulgaria).

1981: National Palace of Culture in Sofia is inaugurated.

2000: Radio Bulgaria's web page launches real audio news service in German.

2005: National Assembly ratifies Protocol on the Accession of the European Community to the Eurocontrol International Convention Relating to Co-operation for the Safety of Air Navigation of 13 December 1960, as variously amended and as consolidated.

2008: Bulgarian National Bank starts posting exchange rate statistics on its website.