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TER-PETROSYAN SUFFERS DEFEAT INSIDE THE COUNTRY
ARMEN TSATOURYAN 3And thus, after a week’s desperate attempts of speaking in the language of threat and blackmail inside the country and demanding new presidential elections, L. Ter-Petrosyan sent “messages” to the world’s ...THE COUNTRY TO BENEFIT AS A RESULT OF COOPERATION
VASAK TARPOSHYAN“Rule of Law” party has responded to Prime Minister S. Sargsyan’s proposal on forming a coalition government. Yesterday, the leaders of “Rule of Law” and the Republican Party signed a cooperation agreement ...AUTHORITIES READY FOR ALL THE OPTIONS
LILIT POGHOSYANYesterday, for the last time in the status of a President Robert Kocharyan met with the active students of Yerevan State University, where he introduced his standpoints regarding many issues of concern. ...
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Today in Armenian history- 0 World Civil Defense day.
- 1856 Birth of the cleric, historian, ethnologist, teacher and translator, Gyoot Aghanyan (Harootyoon Ter - Arakelian) in Tbilissi (Georgia). He translated literary classics and re-wrote Yeghisheh's "Vardanants Story" in modern Armenian. He wrote textbooks on religion and library science. He was the first in Eastern Armenia to publish a wall-calendar.
- 1857 Opening of the school at Varaga Monastery (western Armenia) for the education of "orphan and homeless" children.
- 1865 Birth in Tbilisi of Teegran Hovhannisian, translator and lawyer. He translated the novels "Harootyoon" (Resurrection) written by Lev Tolstoy and "Arants Davananki" (Without Faith) written by Henry Senkeveech.
- 1867 Birth of the writer Nar-Dos (Meekael Hovhannisyan) in Tbilissi (Georgia). He died in 1933.
- 1901 Birth of the poet Sarmen (Armenak Sargsian) in Pakhvants (Western Armenia). Many popular songs have been written using his poems as lyrics.
- 1915 The First Meeting of Armenian immigrants took place in Echmiadsin. The meeting tried to integrate the work of the many benevolent unions that were created to help the survivors of the 1915 Genocide.
- 1920 Azeri Turks perpetrate the Genocide of Shooshee. Some 20 000 Armenians are killed.
- 1920 The Government allots 50 million rubles for agricultural development. Agricultural tractors are brought to Armenia for the first time.
- 1930 The Sardarapat tractor plant starts production.
- 1934 Death in Yerevan of Toros Toramanyan (architecture historian).
- 1960 Martiros Saryan is awarded the title "People's Painter of the USSR".
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