- “A Day of Remembrance of the Armenian Genocide” recognized by Governor Newsom in the State of California on April 24, 2021. Similarly, U.S. President Joseph Biden recognized the 1915 mass killing and deportation of an estimated one million Armenians in Turkey as genocide. Through a press statement issued on Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, the president righted a historical wrong — failure by past U.S. presidents to recognize the crimes perpetrated against the Armenians as a genocide — and underscored the U.S. commitment to preventing future instances of genocide and mass atrocities.
