1988 in Armenia
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The following lists events that happened during 1988 in Armenia.
Events
February
- February 20 - The Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast votes to secede from the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic and join the Armenian SSR, triggering the Nagorno-Karabakh War.
March
- March 9 - Gorbachev meets with the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan Karen Demirchyan and Kamran Baghirov in Moscow to discuss the public demands of unification of Armenia and Karabakh.[1]
November
- November 20 - Soviet Armenian Supreme Council recognizes the Armenian Genocide.[2]
December
- December 7 - The Leninakan or Spitak earthquake (6.9 on the Richter scale) kills nearly 25,000, injures 15,000 and leaves 400,000 homeless.
References
- ^ Verluise 1995, p. 89.
- ^ Verluise 1995, p. 97.
