1962
Massacre
A group of Algerian Rebels open fire on a marketplace in Oran killing numerous innocent civilians, mostly women, known as the Saint Bartholomew Massacre
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Browse historical events and people recorded at Oran in Algeria. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
A group of Algerian Rebels open fire on a marketplace in Oran killing numerous innocent civilians, mostly women, known as the Saint Bartholomew Massacre
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