* 1994 – The Rwandan Genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down.

On April 6, 1994, the airplane carrying Juvénal Habyarimana, the President of Rwanda, and Cyprien Ntaryamira, the Hutu President of Burundi, was shot down as it prepared to land at Kigali.

On April 6, 1994, he was killed when his airplane, also carrying the President of Burundi, Cyprien Ntaryamira, was shot down close to Kigali International Airport.

Cyprien Ntaryamira, the President of Burundi, the Chief of Staff of the Rwandan military, and numerous others also died in the attack.

* À la Mémoire de Cyprien Ntaryamira ( in French )

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On 6 April 1994, a plane carrying both the Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira was shot down by a surface-to-air missile as it approached the airport at Kanombe.

* April 6 – A surface-to-air missile shoots down the presidential jet of Rwanda, a Dassault Falcon 50, as it prepares to land at Kigali International Airport at Kigali, Rwanda, killing all 12 aboard, including President of Rwanda Juvénal Habyarimana and President of Burundi Cyprien Ntaryamira.

His controversial report into the April 1994 assassination of then-Rwandan President, Juvénal Habyarimana and his counterpart Cyprien Ntaryamira of Burundi, was made public on 17 November 2006.

On April 6, 1994, a plane carrying President Habyarimana and President Cyprien Ntaryamira of Burundi was shot down near Kigali.

The cease-fire ended on 6 April 1994 when Habyarimana's plane was shot down near Kigali Airport, killing the President and Cyprien Ntaryamira, the President of Burundi.

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Over the course of approximately 100 days ( from the assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira on April 6 through mid-July ) over 500, 000 people were killed, according to a Human Rights Watch estimate.

On April 6, 1994, the airplane carrying Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira, the Hutu president of Burundi, was shot down as it prepared to land in Kigali, killing everyone on board.

Following an investigation of the plane crash of April 6, 1994 that killed both the Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira and precipitated the genocide, and in which three French crew had also died, the French judge Jean-Louis Bruguière indicted eight associates of Rwandan president Paul Kagame on November 17, 2006.

On April 6, 1994 the airplane of Habyarimana and Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira ( also a Hutu ) was shot down as it flew towards the Kigali airport.

On 6 April 1994 Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira were assassinated, sparking the 1994 Rwandan Genocide.

The assassination of presidents Juvénal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira in the evening of April 6, 1994 was the proximate trigger for the Rwandan Genocide, which resulted in the murder of approximately 800, 000 Tutsi and a smaller number of moderate Hutu.

* On 6 April 1994, a surface-to-air missile struck one of the wings of the Dassault Falcon 50 carrying three French crew and nine passengers, including Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira, as it prepared to land in Kigali, Rwanda, before a second missile hit its tail.

The assassinations of President Habyarimana of Rwanda and President Cyprien Ntaryamira of Burundi on 6 April 1994 became the pretext for the start of the Rwandan Genocide, which resulted in the deaths of several hundred thousand people, mostly Tutsi, over the next three months.

* 1819 – Cyprien Tanguay, Canadian priest and historian ( d. 1902 )

Cyprien Tanguay ( 15 September 1819 – 28 April 1902 ) was a French Canadian priest and historian.

The Rwandan Genocide in 1994, sparked by the killing of Ndadaye ’ s successor Cyprien Ntaryamira, further aggravated the conflict in Burundi by sparking additional massacres of Tutsis.

In 1994, Ndadaye ’ s successor Cyprien Ntaryamira was assassinated in the same plane crash with Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana.

On Tuesday, February 22, 2011, Vatican Information Service ( VIS ) and Catholic News Service ( CNS ), announced that Pope Benedict XVI had named the 53-year-old Bishop Gerald Cyprien Lacroix, until then an Auxiliary Bishop ( assistant bishop ) of Quebec ( since 2009 ), as the new Metropolitan Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Quebec and Primate of Canada.

* Cyprien Bérard's Lord Rutwen ou les Vampires ( 1820 ), which was adapted into a stage play by Charles Nodier the same year, and starred John William Polidori's vampire character Lord Ruthven.

* 5th Winterover at Concordia Station ( 2009 ), blog by Cyprien Pouzenc, Laboratoire Fizeau ( Nice, ex-LUAN ), Observatoire Sirene

An unauthorized sequel to Polidori's tale by Cyprien Bérard called Lord Ruthwen ou les Vampires ( 1820 ) was attributed to Charles Nodier.

Cyr was born in St. Cyprien de Napierville in Quebec, Canada.

Cyprien Kagorora was nominated to the 2005 Kora Awards in the category " Best Traditional Artist ".

He came into office when the previous president, Cyprien Ntaryamira, was killed in a plane crash ( an assassination in which the Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana was also killed ).

Former President of Burundi Cyprien Ntaryamira was born here.

Also on board was Cyprien Ntaryamira, the president of Burundi, and Deogratias Nsabimana, the chief of staff of the army.

Cyprien Bérard wrote an 1820 novel, Lord Ruthwen ou les Vampires, which was falsely attributed to Charles Nodier.