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Cairo: 1,500 [4] The city rebelled against the French, when the French led by General Lanusse recaptured, most of the city inhabitants and rebels were killed and the place was torched. Mamluke massacre 1 March 1811 Cairo: 470 Heads sent to Istanbul; part of Muhammad Ali's seizure of power: 1948 Cairo bombings: June–September, 1948 Cairo: 70 ...
On 9 October 2011, thousands of mainly Coptic Christians joined a march from the Shubra district of northern Cairo to the state TV building in Maspero Square where they intended to hold a peaceful sit-in. The sit-in was organized to protest the state's TV position of fanning the flames of anti-Christian agitation.
In the early morning of 27 February 2019, in Cairo's main train station, Ramses Station, a locomotive hit the buffers at the end of the track at platform 6 at high speed, [7] causing an explosion that sparked a major blaze and fireball that blackened the walls of the station.
The high number of deaths and injuries (561 and 12,392 respectively) was partly due to the amount of panic caused by the earthquake in Cairo itself. [4] Damage was reported to have affected 212 out of a total of 560 historic monuments in the Cairo area. [11] A large block fell from the Great Pyramid of Giza. [4]
EgyptAir Flight 804 was a regularly scheduled international passenger flight from Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport to Cairo International Airport, operated by EgyptAir.On 19 May 2016 at 02:33 Egypt Standard Time (), the Airbus A320 crashed into the Mediterranean Sea, killing all 66 occupants on board.
On December 4, 2015, a molotov cocktail was thrown into the El Sayad restaurant in Cairo, Egypt. [4] The resultant fire killed 17 people, and wounded six. [1] [5] The restaurant was also a nightclub and was located in the Agouza district of the city. [4] The restaurant was located in a basement and had no fire exits. [1]
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The following notable deaths occurred in 2025. Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order. A typical entry reports information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent nationality (if applicable), what subject was noted for, cause of death (if known), and a reference.