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🇧🇫 Martyrs' Day in Burkina Faso
Commemoration of the Batepá Massacre
Date in Burkina Faso
October 31
Instituted2015
Honors Christian converts killed for their faith in the 1880s.
Commemorates the victims of the 1953 Batepá massacre during Portuguese colonial rule
How Martyrs' Day is observed in Burkina Faso
Historical significance
Commemorates the 1966 coup and subsequent resistance.
Public life in Burkina Faso
BanksClosed
SchoolsClosed
Government officesClosed
Calendar & celebration
Calendar systems
Gregorian
On this day in African history
- 1956 Suez Crisis: The United Kingdom and France begin bombing Egypt to force the reopening of the Suez Canal. · Egypt
- 1956 The United Kingdom and France begin bombing Egypt to force the reopening of the Suez Canal. · Egypt
- 1993 25 people are killed during a Ghana-Ivory Coast soccer match. · Ghana
- 1993 Twenty-five people are killed during a Ghana-Ivory Coast soccer match. · Ghana
- 2011 The global human population reaches seven billion, now recognized by the United Nations as the Day of Seven Billion.
- 2015 Metrojet Flight 9268 is bombed over the northern Sinai Peninsula, killing all 224 people on board. · Egypt
In Burkina Faso, around 2015
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