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1988 in Armenia

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The following lists events that happened during 1988 in Armenia.

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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.

    • November

  • November 20 - Soviet Armenian Supreme Council recognizes the Armenian Genocide.

    • 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

    1988 in Armenia Wikipedia
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