Victory and Peace Day
Victory and Peace Day is observed in Armenia (Հաղթանակի և Խաղաղության տոն). Recognized nationally.
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- Public holiday
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Also on this day
Full history →Notable · 2012
The pilots of a Sukhoi Superjet, ignoring alerts from the terrain warning system, crashed the aircraft into Mount Salak in Indonesia, resulting in the deaths of all 45 people on board.- 2023The May 9 riots following the arrest of Imran Khan in Pakistan.
- 2022Russo-Ukrainian War: United States President Joe Biden signs the 2022 Lend-Lease Act into law, a rebooted World War II-era policy expediting American equipment to Ukraine and other Eastern European countries.
- 2020The COVID-19 recession causes the U.S. unemployment rate to hit 14.9 percent, its worst rate since the Great Depression.