Today in History — April 24
1915
24 April 1915: Beginning of the Armenian Genocide
On April 24, 1915, Ottoman authorities arrested approximately 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople, marking the beginning of what historians recognize as one of the first modern genocides. Over the following years, an…
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