- In 590, Gregory I was elected Pope of Rome.
- In 1189, Richard the Lionheart was crowned King of England at Westminster.
- In 1783, the Peace of Paris was signed between Great Britain and its 13 North American colonies, ending the American War of Independence.
- In 1791, the French Legislative Assembly adopted the first French constitution.
- In 1877, during the Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878), Russian troops captured the town of Lovech for the second time.
- In 1877, during the Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878), the Romanian prince Carol I was appointed commander-in-chief of the Russian-Romanian units at Pleven.
- In 1878, the ship “Princess Alice” sank off the coast of England, as a result of which 645 people died.
- In 1901, Chetniks of Yane Sandanski and Hristo Chernopeev kidnapped the Protestant missionary Miss Ellen Stone and the pregnant Katerina Tsilka for a ransom of 100 thousand US dollars.
- In 1914, the pontificate of Pope Benedict XV began.
- In 1916, during the First World War, in the battle of Kochmar and Geshanovo, the cavalry division of Gen. Ivan Kolev held a brilliant victory over the Romanian army units.
- In 1941, the poison gas “Zyklon B” was used for the first time in the Auschwitz concentration camp.
- In 1944, Prime Minister Konstantin Muraviev suspended the execution of all death sentences in Bulgaria.
- In 1954, the US introduced the death penalty for peacetime espionage.
- In 1963, the Bulgarian National Cinema Center was opened in Sofia.
- In 1971, Qatar gained national independence.
- The Greek social democratic party PASOK was established in 1974.
- In 1976, the spacecraft “Viking 2” lands on Mars and transmits the first close-up color pictures of the planet's surface.
- In 2004, a terrorist attack in Beslan - the crisis ended with the death of 344 people, more than half of them children. Another 180 have been declared missing.
Holidays and events:
The Orthodox Church celebrates the holy martyr Antimus of Nicomedia. Antim celebrates a name day.
Dragoman Day.
Today's birthdays:
Atanas Merdzhanov, politician, former MP from BSP
Vasil Naydenov, singer
Prof. Dr. Vesela Tsakova, former director of the Institute of Physical Chemistry at the BAS
Ivan Hinovski, energy expert, former chairman of the Bulgarian Energy and Mining Forum
Lidia Valkova, actress
Malina Petrova, actress, screenwriter, director
Martin Obreshkov, former MP from BSP
Prof. Nikolay Denkov, PP politician, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria, former Minister of Education and Science