Outstanding Events in Algeria
1989: February 17
In Marrakesh, the Arab Maghreb Union was created with the union of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Mauritania and Libya, generating great hopes before being gripped by the conflict in Western Sahara. (32 years ago)
1965: June 20
In Algiers, the capital of Algeria, the police repress demonstrations by hundreds of people who have taken to the streets launching slogans in support of the deposed President Ben Bella. The protests, which began as an orderly march of students, began to walk through the streets in small groups that, when trying to disperse them, caused riots. Former President Ahmed Ben Bella is being held in a military enclave in the Sahara. He was overthrown yesterday by the head of the armed forces Colonel Houari Boumedienne and his National Revolutionary Council. Ben Bella will remain under house arrest for 15 years. Once freed, he will go into exile in neutral Switzerland. (56 years ago)
1965: June 19
In Algeria, a military coup took place that overthrew Ahmed Ben Bella, the first president of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria after its independence from France in 1962 and leader of the Algerian liberation war, and gave power to Houari Boumedian. The causes lie in the continuous internal disputes of the FLN and the external pressures due to the problematic definition of the country's borders and its war with Morocco. Boumedian will establish a dictatorship and will base his economic policy on agrarian reform and nationalizations. (56 years ago)
1962: July 3
Algeria ends its war of liberation and gains its independence from France. (59 years ago)
1962: March 18
Finally, after years of struggle by the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN) founded and led by Ahmed ben Bella in November 1954, in Evian, France, and with the supervision of Charles de Gaulle, the countries of France and Algeria sign a truce to end the liberation war and the 130 years of French rule. Algerian official independence will be declared on July 5. This process of independence has been one of the cruelest of African decolonization since, as there is a strong presence of Europeans residing in the country, they pressured France to prevent emancipation, since they would be the worst affected, which caused many deaths. on both sides and a harsh repression by the French army. (59 years ago)
1960: February 13
France, after its military disaster in French Indochina (present-day Vietnam), and the humiliation of the expropriation of the Suez Canal, which occurred in October 1956 when the United States left its allies without support, accelerates its nuclear program of defense and Today, it detonates its first test atomic bomb in the Algerian Sahara. (61 years ago)
1954: November 1
The Algerian National Liberation Front begins its long war of liberation against France, culminating in victory in 1962. (67 years ago) 1943: June 3During World War II, the French Committee for National Liberation was created in the city of Algiers (Algeria), with General Charles De Gaulle and General Giraud being named co-presidents. On the same date the following year, this Liberation Committee will be called the Provisional Government of the French Republic. (78 years ago)
1830: July 5
To put an end to Berber piracy, the French invade Algiers and the surrounding territories, thus beginning a long period of colonial rule in Algeria, which will last until 1962. (191 years ago)
1580: September 19
In the city of Algiers (now Algeria) Miguel de Cervantes is released, after five years of captivity in the hands of the corsairs, thanks to the payment of a ransom and the mediation of the Trinitarian Fathers. In 1605 he published the first part of "Don Quixote" . (441 years ago)
Outstanding births in Algeria
1913: November 7
In Mondovi, in the bosom of a family of French settlers dedicated to the cultivation of cashew nuts in the Algerian department of Constantine, Albert Camus was born, novelist, essayist, playwright and French philosopher who will be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957 to the 44 years. "The Stranger" , his first novel, is perhaps his best known work, where the protagonist seems to accept life as something automatic. that is undermining their humanity and dignity. (108 years ago)
354: November 13
In Tagaste, a small city of Numidia (now Algeria), Saint Augustine was born, the author of "The Confessions" and "The City of God" , he will be bishop of Hippo from 396 to 430, and one of the most important Christian thinkers together with Saint Paul. (1667 years ago)
Reported deaths in Algeria
1978: December 27
In Algiers, the capital of Algeria, Houari Boumedienne, an Algerian politician, president of his country from the 1965 coup until his death, dies. (42 years ago)
430: August 28
In the city of Hipona (present-day Algeria), which is under siege by Vandal troops, Saint Augustine, author of "The Confessions" and "The City of God" , bishop of Hippo from 396 until his death, dies , one of the most important Christian thinkers together with Saint Paul and great doctor of the Church. (1591 years ago)
