MILESTONES: September 24, birthdays for Nia Vardalos, Kevin Sorbo, Ash Carter
ON THIS DAY IN 1905, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “An agreement was reached today on the terms for the dissolution of the union on Norway and Sweden. The understanding was arrived at during the final session of the delegates, which lasted more than three hours. On the reassembling of the delegates some point of disagreement developed, and they were still in conference at 5 p.m. A rumor spread soon after the delegates reassembled to the effect that an agreement had been signed and this was telegraphed to Christiania, but these were countermanded. The conference is terminated. It is officially announced that a full agreement was reached and signed at 6:10 p.m. The protocols will be published next week at Christiania and Stockholm simultaneously.”
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ON THIS DAY IN 1915, the Eagle reported, “Dr. M. Simbad Gabriel, president of the Armenian General Progressive Association in the United States, has received from Nubar Pasha, diplomatic representative in Paris of the Katholikos, or head of the Armenian Church, advices in regard to the massacres of Armenians in Turkey, in which it is stated that ‘Christian martyrdom has at no time assumed such colossal proportions.’ The letters containing the advices were received by Nubar Pasha from ‘authoritative sources’ in Constantinople and Athens, and contain an appeal to the United States ‘to intercede and stop the persecutions.’ Dr. Gabriel, in making public the letters today, said that from information contained in them and from other reports he had received directly, he estimated that 450,000 Armenians had been put to death and 600,000 rendered homeless or exiled, out of a population of 1,500,000.”