site.btaToday's Observances: April 24

The world:

- Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day; 

- World Meningitis Day, marked since 2009.

On this date in Bulgarian history:

1877: Metropolitan Yossif of Lovech is elected Bulgarian Exarch in Constantinople.

2000: The Public Council of Ethnic Minorities in Bulgaria is founded. It includes organizations of Armenians, Romanians, Jews, Russians, Roma, Turks and the state authorities.

2000: The Bulgarian Employers Association is set up.

2002: Parliament adopts Protection of Classified Information Act.

2007: An operation on preterm repayment of the entire remaining debt to the International Monetary Fund to the amount of 204.8 million special drawing rights is made.