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Headlines for January 07, 2008

AIDE SEES FIRST-ROUND WIN FOR SARKISIAN
By Ruzanna Stepanian and Ruzanna Khachatrian
Prime Minister Serzh Sarkisian will likely win Armenia’s upcoming presidential election without having to face an opposition challenger in a run-off vote, a spokesman for his Republican Party (HHK) said ...
TER-PETROSIAN UNVEILS ELECTION MANIFESTO
By Emil Danielyan
Former President Levon Ter-Petrosian made public his election campaign manifesto on Monday, pledging to turn Armenia into a “normal” state where governments are formed as a result of free elections and ...

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Today in Armenian history

1824 Birth, in Constantinople, of the author Archbishop Arsen Aytenian, of the Mkhitarist Congregation.
1825 Birth of Armenian linguist, philologist, and the future Head Abbot of the Mkhitarist Congregation of Vienna, Arsen Aytnyan.
1828 End of the two-month reconciliation negotiations of Dehkhrak.
1880 Birth of director Arshak Burdjalyan in Astrakhan (Russia). He was one of the founders of the Armenian school of theater directors.
1915 The Central Council of the Social Democrat (Hntshak) Party in Paris appeals to the world to save the Armenians of Western Armenia (living under Turkish misrule) from the danger of annihilation. The Armenian Genocide of about one million Armenians started some four months later.
1920 Death of writer Vahan Terian.
1925 Opening of the Martiros Saryan exhibition in Paris.
1984 President Francois Mitterand of France gives a speech condemning the Armenian Genocide.
1994 Horadiz is retaken by the Artsakh forces.