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** Serkadji prison mutiny in Algeria: Four guards and 96 prisoners are killed in a day and a half.
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** 60 – 100 are killed in the Beni-Ali massacre in Algeria.
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** France prohibits U. N. involvement in Algeria.
** Little Sisters of Jesus founded in Algeria by Little Sister Magdeleine.
** Members of the Armed Islamic Group in Algeria kill 7 French Trappist monks, after talks with French government concerning the imprisonment of several GIA sympathisers break down.
** El Asnam, Algeria is destroyed by an earthquake, which claims more than 2, 600 lives.
** In France, President Charles de Gaulle fires Jacques Massu, the commander-in-chief of the French troops in Algeria.
** Pierre Lagaillarde, who led the insurrections in 1958 and 1960 in Algeria, fails to appear in court in Paris, France.
** French President Charles de Gaulle's visit to Algeria is bloodied by European and Muslim rioters in Algeria's largest cities.
** A bodyguard assassinates President Mohamed Boudiaf of Algeria.
** Thousands riot in Algiers, Algeria against the National Liberation Front government ; by October 10 the army has killed and tortured about 500 people in crushing the riots.
** President of Algeria Chadli Bendjedid dismisses Prime Minister of Algeria Mouloud Hamrouche following 11 days of antigovernment demonstrations, replacing him with Sid Ahmed Ghozali.
** Évian Accords: France and Algeria sign an agreement in Évian-les-Bains ending the Algerian War.
** The OAS signs a truce with the FLN in Algeria, but a day later announces that it will continue the fight on behalf of French Algerians.
** Algeria proclaims independence ; Ahmed Ben Bella is the first President.
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