Today is Azerbaijani Victory Day, a public holiday in Azerbaijan. Aliyev had declared November 10th, the day when Armenia accepted defeat and ended six weeks of fighting in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, as Victory Day.
However, taking into account that Turkey’s founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s death anniversary is commemorated in Turkey on November 10th, Aliyev decided to change the date of Victory Day to November 8th, when Shusha, known as the pearl of Nagorno-Karabakh, was liberated after nearly three decades of Armenian occupation.
Shusha, referred to by Armenians as Shushi, is the second-largest city in Nagorno-Karabakh, South Caucasus. It is de jure part of the Shusha District of Azerbaijan, although it had been controlled by the unrecognized Republic of Artsakh since the end of the First Nagorno-Karabakh War in 1994, as part of its Shushi Province.
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Today is the birthday, in 1929, of American songwriter and producer Bert Berns. He wrote many classic songs including ‘Twist and Shout’ ‘Hang On Sloopy’, ‘Here Comes the Night’, ‘I Want Candy’, ‘Under the Boardwalk’, ‘Everybody Needs Somebody to Love’, ‘Piece of my Heart’ and ‘Brown Eyed Girl’. Berns had rheumatic fever as a child and it caused damage to his heart. He died of heart failure in 1967 at the age of 38. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-VAxGJdJeQ
