What the records say
- When
- 26 Jan 1952
- Kind
- Riot
- Deaths
- 26
- Coordinates
- 30.06° N, 31.23° E
- Description
- riots in Cairo, Egypt in 1952
- Injured
- 552
Cairo fire
1952 anti-British riots in downtown Cairo, Egypt
The Cairo Fire, also known as Black Saturday, was a series of riots that took place on 26 January 1952, marked by the burning and looting of some 750 buildings—retail shops, cafes, cinemas, hotels, restaurants, theatres, nightclubs, and the city's Casino Opera —in downtown Cairo.
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- Wikidata: riots, protests, strikes and revoltsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Black Saturday in Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Samedi noir en Égypte”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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