This Week in Armenian History
Death of Sargis Darchinian (October 2, 2013)
There are lesser-known names who do the hard work of documentation to construct the building of hist...
Birth of Artur Chilingarov (September 25, 1939)
Artur Chilingarov was an Armenian Russian polar explorer, a scientist, and a longtime vice-president...
Death of Armenag Shahmouradian (September 14, 1939)
Armenag Shahmouradian had huge success in Paris as opera singer, but he became more famous as one of...
Birth of Archbishop Khoren Kalfayan (September 6, 1831)
Archbishop Khoren Kalfayan, also know by the literary surname of Nar Bey, was a well-known literary ...
Birth of Tatevik Sazandarian (September 2, 1916)
Tatevik Sazandarian was an operatic mezzo-soprano who became a well-known soloist at the Yerevan Ope...
Death of Bella Darbinian (August 23, 2005)
Between the 1960s and 1980s, Bella Darbinian was at her peak as one of the most well-known singers o...
Birth of Manoug Parikian (September 15, 1920)
Manoug Parikian was an accomplished British Armenian violinist and violin teacher of international f...
Death of Cyrus Hamlin (August 8, 1900)
Cyrus Hamlin was a prominent American Congregational missionary and co-founder of Robert College in ...
Birth of Paul Garabedian (August 2, 1927)
Paul Garabedian was an Armenian American mathematician whose computer computations helped lead to fu...
Death of Eduard Danielian (July 25, 2017)
A prolific historian, Eduard Danielian had an important contribution to the study of Armenian ancien...