In early 1895, Sultan Abdul Hamid II ordered the extermination of specific Armenian districts in the Ottoman Empire.

Amirian had been educated at a local Armenian school in Bayburt, and then eventually went to the Turkish Army Officers Academy.

On June 28, 1914, Gavrilo Princip assassinated the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

Gavrilo Princip was part of the Black Hand, which was an organization that committed terrorist-like acts in order to secure the liberation of Bosnia-Herzegovina.

On April 17, 1916, Russian General V. P. Lyakhov led a massive assault on Bayburt, in order to drive out the Turkish and German soldiers stationed in the city, in which he succeeded.

The First Armenian Volunteer Regiment fought battles throughout the border regions of Russia, Persia, and Turkey.

After the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II and signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, the First Armenian Regiment had been dissolved.

Dro was placed in charge of the Ghoukasian Oil Refineries and Amirian was appointed as a Management Officer.

He also was responsible for the migration of over 5,000 Armenian's from German refugee camps to the United States after World War II.

During World War II, Amirian and his family dealt with Nazi occupation of the oil fields.

Because of the major importance the Ghoukasian Oil Refineries and the other surrounding oil refineries had on the war, American President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill worked with General Jacob E. Smart at the 1942 Casablanca Conference to discuss Operation Tidal Wave.

Operation Tidal Wave was a massive air bombing of the Ploiești refineries by British and American Forces.

In a desperate attempt to destroy the heart of the German war machine, the Royal Air Force deployed 700 bombers to flatten the city.

On August 23, as Soviet Troops were at the gates of Bucharest, the puppet government of His Majesty Michael I of Romania had overthrown and arrested Antonescu.

In 1941, General Dro had to leave the Ghoukasian Oil Refinery in order to create the Armenian Legion in the Wehrmacht.

When Dro had left to create the Armenian Legion, he gave command of the Ghoukasian Oil Refineries to Amirian and Alexander Sharafian.

Amirian finally arrived in the United States in 1950, with his wife Siranoush and youngest child Dro.

His two other children, Christine and Sebouh, had to wait five years until the first Displaced Person Act was finally passed and until the United States accepted their passports.

Soghomon Tehlirian was a famous Armenian revolutionary who responsible for the assassination of the former Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed Talat Pasha.