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• Year 325 — The First Council of Nicaea is formally opened, starting the first ecumenical council...

• Year 491 — Empress Ariadne marries Anastasius I. The widowed Augusta is able to choose her...

• Year 526 — An earthquake kills about 250,000 people in what is now Syria and Antiochia.

• Year 1813 — Napoleon Bonaparte leads his French troops into the Battle of Bautzen in Saxony,...

• Year 1840 — York Minster is badly damaged by fire.

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• Today, Wednesday, May 20

• National Day

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• Restoration of Independence Day

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• Tomorrow, Thursday, May 21

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• Navy Day

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• Friday, May 22

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• Saturday, May 23

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• Day of Slavonic Alphabet, Bulgarian Enlightenment and Culture

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• Saints Cyril and Methodius Day

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