site.btaToday's Observances: June 23

Bulgaria:

- Civil Service Day (since January 2006).

The world:

- International Day of SOS Kinderdorf (SOS Children's Villages);

- National Day of Luxembourg. Grand Duke's Official Birthday;

- Public Service Day: Designated by the UN General Assembly on 20 December 2002 to highlight the contribution of public service in the development process.

On this date in Bulgarian history:

1882: Russian General Leonid Sobolev forms Conservative Party Government of Principality of Bulgaria (in office until September 7, 1883).

1963: Nitrogen Fertilizer Plant opens near Stara Zagora (Southeastern Bulgaria). Renamed Agrobiochim in 1989. Adjudicated bankrupt on September 12, 2001.

1994: 36th National Assembly adopts Judicial System Act (superseded by a law of the same title, passed by 40th National Assembly in July 2007).