"A lot of people might not know about it, but that is a very special day for Armenians," he said. "That is a very difficult day, and a day that no Armenian is ever going to forget that. We've gone through a lot of pain on that day, so that's why it's so special."
That date will always serve as a reminder of the reported 1.5 million Armenians killed from 1915 to 1923 at the hands of the Ottoman Turkish government. Movsisyan was born to Armenian parents in Azerbaijan, but moved to Southern California and grew up in Pasadena.