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DECEMBER IN HISTORY
1 December 2002 As Balkan Airlines, Bulgaria's then flagship air carrier, was going into receivership, several air hostesses made an effort to save it by posing nude for Bulgaria's Playboy, the first...
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JANUARY AND FEBRYARY IN HISTORY
1 January 1989 No one suspected in the new year's early hours that the collapse of Communism was just a few months away. Sofianites woke up to 1989 under the watchful eye of a statue of Lenin next to...
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MARCH IN HISTORY
3 March 1878 Russia and the Ottoman Empire sign a peace treaty in San Stefano, near Constantinople. Russia's victory is good news for the Bulgarians – they gain their independence and territories as...
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APRIL IN HISTORY
2 April 1956 A congress of the Bulgarian Communist Party, or BKP, known historically as the April Plenum, was launched in Sofia. As a result of the Soviet Union's rejection of the personality cult for...
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MAY IN HISTORY
1 May 1998 Just like under Communism, 1 May continues to be a bank holiday in Bulgaria. There are some differences, however. The Zhivkov regime used to organise mass rallies, or manifestatsii, while...
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2 June 1876 Hristo Botev, 28-year-old poet and fabled figure in the national liberation movement against the Ottoman Empire, died in a battle near Vratsa, northwestern Bulgaria. The Bulgarian radical...
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JULY IN HISTORY
1 July 1970s The exact year remains unknown, but in the late 1970s a group of trailblazers gathered on the pier at Varna, on the northern Black Sea coast, to greet the dawn. They listened to the...
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AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER IN HISTORY
11 August 1990 An Army Construction Corps truck collided with a tractor on Sofia's Ring Road. The 14 soldiers inside were caught in the conflagration – only one survived. The trial is still dragging...
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OCTOBER IN HISTORY
2 October 1996 Former Prime Minister Andrey Lukanov, from the Bulgarian Socialist Party, or BSP, was shot dead with four bullets in front of his home in Sofia. The circumstances remain unclear, and 13...
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DECEMBER AND JANUARY IN HISTORY
25 December 1847 (6 January 1848) The wife of Botyo Petkov, a humble teacher from Kalofer, gave birth to a boy who would become the leading light of Bulgarian literature and the national movement for...
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