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MARCH 1, 2008 VICTIMS COMMEMORATED IN YEREVAN

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  Some 15-20 thousand gathered at Matenadaran today to commemorate the victims of March 1, 2008 disorders. Addressing the action participants Levon Zurabyan, coordinator of the Armenian National Congress, read out the names of those killed. Taking the floor, head of the Armenian National Congress, Armenia's first President Levon Ter-Petrosyan said that the opposition will carry on legal struggle and called to exclude the terms 'revolution' or 'rebel' form the opposition's plans. At that, he did not rule out that the government will fail to cope with the consequences of the global financial crisis and resign. Noting that it's not the time for indefinite-term protest actions, he informed that the next opposition rally will be held in May 1. Then the action participants marched to the monument to Alexander Miasnikian and laid flowers to commemorate those killed at the site in last year's melee.

• MARCH 1, 2008 VICTIMS COMMEMORATED IN YEREVAN

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  Some 15-20 thousand gathered at Matenadaran today to commemorate the victims of March 1, 2008 disorders. Addressing the action participants Levon Zurabyan, coordinator of the Armenian National Congress, ...

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• 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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