site.btaObservances: February 9

On this date in Bulgarian history: 

1923: Alexander Stamboliyski forms second government (in office until June 9, 1923, when brought down by military coup).

1949: Bulgaria becomes member of UNICEF.

1996: Supreme Court repeals sentence against former communist leader Todor Zhivkov and his former aide Milko Balev.

1998: Biathlete Ekaterina Dafovska wins Bulgaria's first Winter Olympics gold medal (in individual women's 15 km event in Nagano, Japan).

1999: Twenty-one Bulgarian doctors and nurses are arrested in Libya in connection with infection of 393 children with AIDS in Benghazi in 1998. 

2003: Bulgarian scientific base's chapel on Livingston Island, Antarctica, is consecrated.