| 04/20/80 | Berber spring. Berber ethnic protests are held in Tizi Ouzou. |
| 05/05/95 | Islamic extremists kill five foreigners working at a pipe mill at an industrial zone in the Ghardaia region of northern Algeria. The victims were identified as two Frenchmen, a Canadian, a Brit and a Tunisian. |
| 06/05/97 | President Liamine Zeroual's government is re-elected; the FIS is banned from participating in the polls. |
| 08/20/55 | Algerian independence fighters launch their first armed offensive against French forces in eastern Algeria. |
| 11/08/42 | U.S. and British forces land in North Africa. |
| 12/19/91 | The first parliamentary elections ever held in Algeria are won by Muslim fundamentalists. The elections were nulled by the government, tossing Algeria into civil war. |
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