site.btaToday's  Observances:  March 2

The world:

Belarus: Day of Remembrance of Holocaust Victims.

On this date in Bulgarian history:

1923: Settlement of Bulgarian reparations with Allied Powers gets under way

1951: The State Savings Bank (DSK) is established.

1982: Zhelyu Zhelev publishes his groundbreaking book "Fascism: The Totalitarian State." Book banned from sale soon afterward. Reflects great credit on Zhelev, who is later President of Bulgaria (in 1990-1997).

1984: The first representative exhibition of the National History Museum opens at Sofia's Palace of Justice for the 1,300th anniversary of the Bulgarian State.

1993: The Representative Office of the German Economy in Bulgaria opens. It is succeeded by the German-Bulgarian Chamber of Industry and Commerce in March 2004. 

2007: The notariats of Bulgaria and Romania join the Council of the Notariats of the European Union in Brussels. 

2007: Parliament rejects in a 163-60 vote, with one abstention, a motion of no confidence in the Sergei Stanishev government.