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Headlines for September 01, 2005NEW BUILDING OF VAZGEN SARGSIAN MILITARY INSTITUTE OPENED
President Robert Kocharian attended on Thursday the ceremony of initiating the new building of the Vazgen Sargsian Military Institute in Yerevan. Ranked by Defense Minister Serzh Sargsian, Deputy Defense ...OSCE CHAIRMAN-IN-OFFICE TO VISIT REGION
Dimitri Rupel, OSCE chairman-in-office and Slovenian foreign minister, will make a visit to Azerbaijan on September 6. As reported by REGNUM, he will then travel to Armenia. He is planning to be briefed ...PRESIDENT KOCHARIAN ISSUES ADDRESS OVER NAGORNO KARABAKH REPUBLIC INDEPENDENCE DAY
President Robert Kocharian issued a congratulatory address over the Independence Day of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic. "We are marking the 14th anniversary of Artsakh independence by reiterating ...
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Today in Armenian history- 0 Knowledge Day.
- 570 Signature of the Treaty between Armenia and the Byzantine Empire.
- 1387 Tamerlane's forces surround and occupy Fort Van (Western Armenia).
- 1850 The "Ararat" weekly is first published in Tbilissi (Georgia). Gabriel Patkanyan is the publisher.
- 1860 Creation of the "National Union" with the active participation of Meekayel Nalbandyan in Constantinople.
- 1860 The Armenian Benevolent Union is created.
- 1861 G.Yeranyan, N.Tashtchyan and T.Tshookhadjiyan publish the semi-annual "Armenian Lyre" periodical devoted to music.
- 1868 Opening of the Yerevan Gymnasium.
- 1868 Birth in Elizabetpol (Gandzak) of Melik Melikyan (Bolshevik politician). He was murdered in Baku in 1918.
- 1886 Minas Cheraz opens the Central College at Kalatia (Constantinople).
- 1894 The centenary of Armenian journalism is celebrated.
- 1920 The First Assembly of Eastern Peoples opens in Baku with Armenian participation.
- 1939 Start of the Second World War.
- 1958 The Agriculture and Agrochemistry Research Institute is founded within Armenia's Ministry of Agriculture.
- 1966 Continuing an unbroken practice since the thirties, Soviet Armenia sends petitions to the central authorities in Moscow to return Artsakh to Armenia. These petitions eventually are accompanied by mass protests in Artsakh, which lead to a crackdown by the Communist authorities.
- 1997 Arkady Ghukasyan (former Minister for Foreign Affairs of Artsakh) is elected President of Artsakh.
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