site.btaObservances: March 29-30

March 29

Bulgaria:

- Day of War Cripples and Casualties in the Performance of Their Constitutional Military Duties (since 1993).

On this date in Bulgarian history:

• 1915: First society of war disabled veterans is set up.
• 1972: Diplomatic relations restored with Pakistan. Established in 1965, broken on January 13, 1972.
• 1990: Moratorium imposed on the repayment of Bulgaria's debt to foreign commercial creditors.
• 2000: Parliament ratifies the European Social Charter.
• 2001: Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, tsar of Bulgaria from 1943 to 1946, donates Park Vrana to Sofia Municipality.
• 2003: National Association of Orphans in Bulgaria is set up.
• 2004: Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha presents to US Secretary of State Colin Powell the ratification instrument on Bulgaria's accession to NATO. Bulgaria thereby becomes a full NATO Member.
• 2012: Parliament votes a resolution upholding government's decision to terminate work on the construction of a nuclear power plant at Belene.

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.