Diary of human action

On October 10, 1977, the National High School for Ancient Languages and Cultures (NGDEK) "Constantine-Cyril the Philosopher" was opened by the Committee for Culture in Sofia. The high school was opened mainly thanks to the then advocacy of Professor Alexander Fol and Lyudmila Zhivkova. The founding of NGDEK practically marked the revival of classical education in modern …

On October 9, 2002, in its annual report, the European Commission recognized Bulgaria as a country with a functioning market economy. According to the EC's assessment, Bulgaria's progress in economic terms strengthened its position in the negotiations for membership in the European Union. Mainly thanks to this progress, five years later, in 2007 …

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 …

The brothers Evlogi and Hristo Georgievi were born in Karlovo at the beginning of the 19th century. The older brother Evlogi was born on today's date, October 3, in 1819, and the younger brother Hristo in 1824. Settled in Romania, they participated in the trading company of their relatives (their uncles) Nikola and …

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 …

On October 1, 1888, the Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" was founded. The idea for the university was born eight years earlier, in 1880, when the Ministry of Education submitted to the National Assembly a draft Basic Law on Schools, which provided for the establishment of a Bulgarian higher education institution that would accept high school graduates. …