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Headlines for February 07, 2007

TRUTH PREVAILS OVER MILLIONS SPENT
By Harut Sassounian, Publisher, The California Courier
It took a little more than a year and a half, but it was well worth the wait. After lengthy, sometimes complex, but mostly amicable discussions, the European edition of TIME magazine, in its Feb. 12, ...

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Today in Armenian history

0 Mehekan was the 7th month in the old Armenian calendar (February 7 to March 8). The month's name is connected to the Armenian for death (mah) because plants and some animals would be in a state of hibernation at this time.
1676 Birth of Mkhitar Sebastatsi (cultural and church figure). He founded the Roman Catholoc Mkhitarist Congregation. He died in 1749.
1861 Birth in Vagharshapat (Etshmiadsin) of publisher and author of dictionaries, Tigran Navasardian.
1887 Birth of Civil War hero and famous Commander Hayk Bjshkyants (Guy) in Tavriz (Iran). In December 1937 he was killed -- a victim of Stalin's terror.
1899 The first train arrives at Alexandropol (Gyoomree) from Tbilisi.
1925 Opening of the Land-owners' First National Conference in Yerevan.
1950 Death of painter Sargis Yerkanian in St Louis (USA).
1992 The U.S. Embassy opens in Armenia. It is the first foreign country to set up a diplomatic mission in Armenia.