1826 9 10
End of the heroic defense of Fort Shooshee (Artsakh).

1869 9 10
Birth of cleric and ethno-musicologist Komitas (Soghomon Soghomonyan) in Kutina (Western Armenia). He became mentally ill after witnessing the Armenian Genocide perpetrated by Turkey. He died in Paris in 1935.

1890 9 10
Birth of Franz Werfel in Prague (Austrian novelist). He wrote "The Forty Days of Musa Dagh" (1933), a best-selling epic tale of Armenian resistance to the Turkish Genocide of 1915. He died in 1945.

1896 9 10
Armenian massacres begin in Akn.

1896 9 10
Start of the third defense of Van under the leadership of Vardgehss and Vardan.

1898 9 10
Andreas Artehruni (scientist) dies in Germany. He was born in 1847.

1920 9 10
The conference of Armenia's Communist organizations opens in Baku.

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