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Headlines for March 12, 2012HRAZDAN HOOLIGANISM: INVESTIGATORS URGE EYEWITNESSES TO COME FORWARD
Based on a report that appeared in the February 12, 2012 edition of Hetq, on March 8, criminal charges of "hooliganism" have been initiated against Ashot Danielyan.
Danielyan is being charged with verbally ...ARMENIAN CHILDREN PAY RESPECTS AT JAPANESE EARTHQUAKE MEMORIAL SERVICE
On March 11, the National Aesthetics Center of Armenia and the Hikari (Light) Center organized a memorial tribute to mark the one year anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan.
In Japan, ...MAYOR TO MINE MANAGER: "GET YOUR DIRTY HANDS OFF KAJARAN"
Rafik Atayan, mayor of Kajaran, a southern Armenian community that has been in the news of late due to a controversial government decision to hand over large swaths of communal land to a commercial mining ...FRANCE, TURKEY AND THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
By Raffi K. Hovannisian
On February 28 the Constitutional Council of theFrenchRepublic struck down a bill, previously enacted by its legislature, that would have made it a crime to deny the Armenian Genocide. ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1846 Opening of the Armenian Circus (the "Aram Theatre") in Constantinople.
- 1854 Birth of epidemiologist Margar Aroostamov (Aroostamian) in Shooshee.
- 1898 Birth of writer, literary figure, and artist Aram Yeremian in Marzvan (Western Armenia). He made a great contribution to further develop the art of Armenian minstrel songs.
- 1900 Birth of the founder of Armenian circus arts, the equilibrist Vagharshak Arzoomanyan.
- 1906 Birth of the scholar, professor and doctor of historical sciences, Hmayak Harootyoonian in Lamzkert (Van Province of Western Armenia). He studied medieval Armenian history.
- 1918 The Turkish army re-occupies Karin (Erzroom, Western Armenia).
- 1922 Representatives of the Central Executive Committees of Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbajan, meeting in Tbilissi (Georgia), create the Transcaucasian Federation.
- 1965 Opening of the National Assembly of Repatriated Armenians, in Yerevan's Spendiaryan Opera and Ballet Hall.
- 1966 Death of Norayr Seessakyan, biologist, public speaker, and professor.
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