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Headlines for January 30, 2007

ARMENIAN ELECTIONS SCHEDULED FOR MAY 12
By Ruzanna Stepanian and Karine Kalantarian
President Robert Kocharian has officially scheduled Armenia’s parliamentary elections for May 12 after telling government agencies and employees not to be distracted by the unfolding electoral race. ...
TURKISH POLICE ‘IGNORED TIP-OFF ON DINK’S MURDER’
By Emma Ross-Thomas, Reuters
Turkish police were warned a year ago about a plot to kill Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, media said on Tuesday, the latest suggestion authorities could have prevented a murder that has shocked ...
ANOTHER ARSON ATTACK ON ARMENIAN EDITOR’S CAR
By Ruben Meloyan
The editor of an Armenian sports newspaper who has been at loggerheads with an influential government-connected businessman reported on Tuesday a second arson attack on his car within a year. The Toyota ...

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410 Birth of Movses Khorenatsi (historian).
1799 Birth of Edward Hyoormoozyan of the Mkhitarist Congregation (Armenian Roman Catholic Order) in Constantinople. He died in 1876 in Rome.
1901 Birth of the First Secretary of the Central Committee of Armenia's Communist Party, Aghassee Khanjyan. He was one of the many murdered by Lavrentee Beria in July, 1936 in Tbilisi, where he was invited for consultations.
1915 According to statistical data, from the end of 1914 to the beginning of 1915, about 49800 Armenians emigrated from Western Armenia, Persia and the bordering regions of Turkey, to the ten provinces of Yerevan and Tbilisi.
1927 First Graduation Ceremony of Yerevan State University students at the Culture House of Yerevan.
1975 Opening of the Yeghisheh Charents Museum in Yerevan.
2001 French President Jacques Chirac signs the law recognizing the 1915 Genocide of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. From now on, no one in France has the right to deny the fact of the Armenian Genocide.

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