site.btaObservances: 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.