Pohela Boishakh.

That's Phonecian for the Bengali new year. In Bangladesh, it's the year 5111. Judging how Bangladesh has been doing for the past... since its independence from Pakistan, I'm pretty content with the past. Just FYI, future, we surprisingly make it past 2012 and global warming is really a cactuswoman.

Also, on this day in the Bengali year of 5017 during the War to End All Wars (followed shortly thereafter by much more gigantic and much more popular war) Turkish forces invaded Armenia in one of the last military actions of the Ottoman Empire. Yes, the empire broke up shortly after the war but that didn't stop leftover Ottoman forces from hanging out and fulfilling their tender promise of armenian genocide!!! all the way through to 1919! Allow me to graph this phenomena.