Murray Rothbard, "For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto" Even if we assume that natural resources are entirely private and that the free market would preserve them much better than government regulation, what can we say about the problem of environmental pollution? Wouldn't we suffer from increased pollution caused by...

On October 22, 1906, the foundation stone of the Varna Aquarium building was laid. The initiative came from Tsar Ferdinand, who sought advice from the director of the Naples Zoo and entrusted the organization of the construction of the aquarium to the prominent Bulgarian physician Dr. Paraskev Stoyanov. In the following months, Stoyanov settled the administrative issues with …

On October 17, 1907, Guglielmo Marconi's company - "The Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company" - launched the first transatlantic 24-hour wireless telecommunications service. Messages were transmitted via powerful radio transmitters developed by the Italian inventor and located in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland. On this …

On October 11, 1968, NASA launched the Apollo 7 mission by launching the Apollo CSM-101 spacecraft into orbit. It was the first manned lunar mission of the Apollo program and a key step toward the conquest of the moon. The program successfully landed a man on the moon eight months later…

On October 8, 927, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church was declared autocephalous (independent from that of the Byzantine Empire). The recognition was granted by the Byzantine Emperor Romanos I Lekapin and was part of a peace treaty concluded between Byzantium and Bulgaria at the beginning of the reign of Tsar Peter I, which provided for thirty-one …

On October 7, 1950, Catholic nun Agnes Bojagiu, better known as Mother Teresa, received the Vatican's blessing to found the Missionaries of Charity as part of the Archdiocese of Calcutta. In this way, Pope Pius XII legitimized the school for the poor that she had founded in 1948. The new order numbered just 12 people...

On October 6, 1600, the world's oldest surviving opera, Euridice, premiered at the Palazzo Pitti in Florence. The music for the work was composed by the Florentine Jacopo Peri, and the libretto was written by the poet Ottavio Rinuccini. Dedicated to the wedding of King Henry IV and Marie de' Medici, the work establishes fundamental …

On October 5, 1879, the Governor-General of Eastern Rumelia, Prince Alexander Bogoridi, laid the foundation stone for the restoration of Stara Zagora. The city was almost completely plundered and destroyed by the advancing Ottoman army of Suleiman Pasha during the War of Independence, and its inhabitants were subjected to mass extermination, in which nearly 8,000 Bulgarians died. …

On October 4, 2004, the experimental passenger spaceplane SpaceShipOne made the first private suborbital spaceflight, reaching an altitude of over 110 km. The vehicle was developed and operated by Mojave Aerospace Ventures, owned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, and Scaled Composites, a company owned by legendary aerospace engineer Burt Rutan. The project is worth 25 …

On October 2, 1921, the first academic year was opened at the Higher School of Commerce in Varna. Later renamed the "Economics University - Varna", this was the first higher school of economics in Bulgaria, marking the beginning of specialized higher business education in the country. The initiative for its establishment was taken by the Varna …