1989 Event 6 claim to survive in rubble, 35 days after Armenian quake (hoax) 1988 Event Armenian SSR rocked by earthquake, 8 on Richter scale (55,000 die) 1983 Event 8 killed, 54 wounded, by Armenian extremists bomb at Orly, France 1978 Event French TV announced a rating of "0" for a program about an Armenian's woman's 40th birthday, (comp: Napoleanic drama-67%, Knockout-33%) 1936 Event Armenian SSR, Azerbaijan SSR, Georgian SSR, Kazakh SSR and Kirghiz SSR becomes constituent republics of Soviet Union 1922 Death Jevgeni B Vachtangov, Armenian/Russian actor and director, dies at 39 1915 Event Massacre of Armenians by Turks starts (Armenian Martyrs Day) 1903 Birthday Aram Katchaturian, Armenian composer, Earth 1896 Event Armenian revolutionairy assault on Ottoman Bank Constantinople 1883 Birthday Jevgeni B Vachtangov, Armenian/Russian actor and director, Eric XIV 1859 Birthday Mikhail Mikhayl Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russia, musician, Armenian Rhapsody 948 Death Romanus I Lecapenus, Armenian emperor of Byzantium (919-44), dies 820 Death Leo V, the Armenian, Byzantine gen/Emperor (813-20), murdered 552 Event Origin of Armenian calendar
