BTA :: Observations: September 28-29

September 28

The world:

– World Rabies Day.

Bulgaria:

– International Day of the Right to Know.

On this date in Bulgarian history:

1960: Established diplomatic relations with Somalia.

1962: Established diplomatic relations with Sierra Leone.

1987: More than 300 people organize a meeting in Ruse, unprecedented in the communist era. They are protesting against the authorities’ indifference to the chlorine pollution of the city’s air from the chemical factories in Giurgiu, Romania.

1990: Sofia Airport joins the International Civil Airports Association.

1992: Bulgaria is a signatory to the 1990 Council of Europe Convention on the Laundering, Search, Seizure and Confiscation of the Proceeds of Crime.

2012: Bulgaria establishes diplomatic relations with South Sudan.

September 29

On this date in Bulgarian history:

1918: An armistice was signed at Salonika between Bulgaria and the Entente (Britain, France and Russia), taking Bulgaria out of World War I.

1952: Forty people, most of them Catholic priests, are tried (until October 3, 1952) on charges of espionage and conspiracy in favor of the Vatican and foreign intelligence services.

1974: Sofia Medical Academy opens medical faculty in Pleven, North-Central Bulgaria (renamed Higher Medical Institute in 1979, transformed into Medical University – Pleven in 2004).

1996: Princess Sayako of Japan arrives at the invitation of the Bulgarian government and opens Days of Japanese Culture. President Zhelyu Zhelev receives Princess.

2008: The interior ministers of Bulgaria, Serbia and Romania sign a trilateral agreement on cooperation in the fight against crime, in particular cross-border crime.