October 31 Jean bVaujour/b, Prefect of the Algiers police, alerts the 10th Military District to the possibility of an insurrection during the next 48 hours. October 31 The first bombs explode shortly before midnight. b...../b The manager of the Raisinette bEstate/b is murdered, the citrus groves are cut down and hay sheds burnt. March 19 19000 North African workers go on strike in northern France. March 20 University of Algiers professor André Mandouze is expelled from Algeria for ...