site.btaToday's Observances: November 8

The Orthodox Church celebrates the Synaxis of St Michael the Archangel and the Other Bodiless Powers.

Bulgaria:

- Bulgarian Police Day;

- Day of the Western Outlands (an area now in Southeastern Serbia which Bulgaria, defeated in World War I, lost to Yugoslavia under the 1919 Treaty of Neuilly).

On this date in Bulgarian history:

1204: Tsar Kaloyan accedes to the throne after establishing a union with the Roman Catholic Church.

1899: A railway linking Pleven with Shumen is inaugurated.

1936: The Higher School of Commerce opens in Svishtov, established on money bequeathed by entrepreneur Dimitar Tsenov in 1912.

1958: The State Lottery is established.

1962: The Vihren National Park is established in the northern section of Mt Pirin (today's Pirin National Park)