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NEW JERSEY CHURCH HOSTS WHITNEY HOUSTON'S FUNERAL (LIVE)
- Whitney Houston's funeral service is being held at the New Hope Baptist Church in New Jersey, where the music icon first showed off her singing talents as a kid. Watch the live video on February 18 at 12 p.m. ET/9 a.m. PT, reports ABC news.
The singer was found dead in her room at the Beverly Hotels last week where she was staying as a guest. She was 48.
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The Foundation pays tribute to people who ...SYRIAN FORCES UNLEASH HEAVIEST SHELLING IN HOMS
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Tuning in to a radio phone-in show on Wednesday evening, as they inched through the decaying urban sprawl where Whitney Houston was born and raised, the commuters of New Jersey were stirred by a vitriolic ...ANONYMOUS HACKERS TO SHUT DOWN INTERNET ON MARCH 31
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The Yerkrapah Union of Volunteers (YUV) has held its 9th congress at the Karen Demirchyan sports & concert complex. Attending were Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, Armenian Minister of Defense ...ARMENIAN PRESIDENT DELIVERS SPEECH AT 9TH CONVENTION OF VOLUNTEER HOMELAND DEFENDERS UNION
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Today in Armenian history- 1853 Birth of Christapor Kara Murza (composer and conductor) in Gharazubazar (Crimea, Ukraine) . He died in 1902.
- 1856 After the Crimean War, Sultan Abdul Mejid of Turkey signed an Edict on the security of life for the non-Muslim peoples of the Ottoman Empire. This Proclamation, the goal of which was to prevent possible Russian intervention, did not change the Armenians' situation at all.
- 1856 Sultan Abdul Megid publishes the "Hatti Hoomayoon" reform plan as the second statement of the "Tanzimat". No reforms took place.
- 1877 Birth of academician and author, Derenik Demirtjian. He died in 1956.
- 1879 Creation of the "Cilician Society" benevolent organization. Its purpose was the spread of national education in Cilicia. The founders were Minas Sheraz, Karapet Karakyan, Hrant Asatoor, Hakob Nazaryan, and others.
- 1918 Andranik's small force arrives in Erzroom (Western Armenia). It could not repel the attack of the 25 000-strong Turkish Army. It fought a rear-guard action and managed to save many refugees by bringing them to the Caucasus.
- 1920 Foundation of the Armenian Government Red Cross.
- 1921 Revolt against the Bolshevik government in Armenia.
- 1921 The anti-Bolshevik February Rebellion in Armenia ended in victory for the people.
- 1963 Death of Catholicos Zareh the First of the Cilician See.
- 1977 The monument of Commander Gai (Haik Bjshkiants) is inaugurated in Yerevan.
- 1994 Artsakh forces regain control of the Omar Pass having lost it three months earlier.
- 1994 The Moscow Communique is issued following negotiations among the defense ministers of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Artsakh.
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